Example sentences of "it is [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is joyous dance anthems like her recent hits Everybody 's Free ( To Feel Good ) and Faith ( in the Power of Love ) that are the true '90s successors to the spirit of all those '60s Motown pop classics . |
| 2 | It is pointless allocating hours of teaching to irrelevant material . |
| 3 | It is easy to produce accurate pulses at very high speed yet it is 1 second pulses which are needed . |
| 4 | It is 18 percentage points behind the Liberal-National coalition . |
| 5 | It is fruitless asking patients if their injection sites are satisfactory , as they invariably say that they are ; they come to regard the abnormal as normal . |
| 6 | It is encouraging business investments from abroad and private enterprise is beginning to take off . |
| 7 | FOLLOWING the recent decision to lift the ban on those cricketers who toured South Africa 2½ years ago , I find myself wondering whether it is worthwhile making laws and regulations at all . |
| 8 | Many of us become hot under the collar over local issues , whether it is poor transport services , an objection to the proposed siting of an amusement arcade opposite where we live , or the lack of sports and other social facilities . |
| 9 | Hence , the smaller the amount of equity the more likely it is that debt holders may have to bear some part of any losses . |
| 10 | IF THERE is one political lesson which recent events have underlined in Africa , South East Asia and Latin America , it is that peasant armies waging guerilla wars all end up committing the same sort of brutalities , whatever the flag they fight under . |
| 11 | Hence the individual voter 's starting-point in trying to influence policy through the electoral process is a situation of very limited choice in which it is general policy biases , or even more general considerations , often described as ‘ party images ’ , that must govern his or her selection of an MP . |
| 12 | It is these survival techniques which provide the cultural and psychological framework that gives energy and support to black children . |
| 13 | It is these leakage channels into the gut cell walls that cause them to swell and burst the gut wall and lead to the death of the insect . |
| 14 | It is these network forms of coordination that are considered in the third section of this book . |
| 15 | Most plants consist of a main rootstock from which several ‘ eyes ’ have grown to form sizeable ‘ branches ’ , and it is these side growths that should be retained , cutting them from the parent with as much healthy young rootstock as possible . |
| 16 | It is these pulse variations which are the secret of Elgar 's music-making . |
| 17 | Answers to these questions are crucial to the success of direct marketing campaigns for such products , and it is direct marketing systems based on real consumer financial information , such as Infolink 's DEFINE , which provide those essential targeting criteria . |