Example sentences of "it is the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS the early hours of Friday morning . |
| 2 | But it is the Japanese manufacturers who have made a poor showing in the DSP arena — probably due in part to a lack of commitment and feeble marketing . |
| 3 | Inevitably it is the preventive services that are most vulnerable to cuts — the playgroups and child-minder schemes , for example . |
| 4 | The ether is not so much the carrier of cosmic electro-magnetic forces , as it is the materialised forces themselves . |
| 5 | The , the report addresses the past and current G M B policy but it is the future needs of our members that we must plan for . |
| 6 | If we recognise that professionals do not have ownership of problems and that it is the primary managers ( parents ) who sort out problems , there is nothing to be gained by giving a contrary impression to parents . |
| 7 | Nonsense , said the Fundamentalists , it is the Civil Liberties people who are being illiberal and intolerant by presenting evolution as fact when it is only a theory . |
| 8 | To interpret exceptions to the general rule that sexual dimorphism increases with the degree of polygyny , we need to remember that it is the comparative effects of phenotypic traits on reproductive success in males and females that will determine the degree of dimorphism and not the amount of variation in reproductive success per se ( see Price , 1970 ; Lande , 1980 ) . |
| 9 | The blue chip authors are holding their own , but it is the new authors who are really struggling in the current climate . |
| 10 | In the case of an asymmetric arms race , between a lineage of weapons and the specific antidotes to those weapons , it is the one-to-one correspondences that , over the successive ‘ generations ’ , lead to ever greater sophistication and complexity . |
| 11 | But it is the real powerbrokers , the businessmen and the politicians , who top the honours list and take their pay offs in peerages . |
| 12 | However , in these cases too , it is the economic relations which farmers have with other more developed economies that cause these problems . |
| 13 | And it is the thematic meanings , of course , that allow the participants to enter fantasy or unfamiliar contexts . |
| 14 | Although it is the consonant sounds which are essential for understanding speech , I am in duty bound to mention the vowel sounds too . |
| 15 | It is the consonant sounds which make speech intelligible ; therefore it is not surprising that people who lose the high frequencies tend to hear the voice but not to be able to distinguish words . |
| 16 | But realism itself is just a matter of convention ; for some people it is the defamiliarized codes which seem realistic , whereas for others it is the traditional devices which convey a sense of reality , and no one device is inherently more realistic than another . |
| 17 | Gerald has been known to coin such memorable one-liners as the following : ‘ If the joy of the Lord is our strength , it 's little wonder that the church in Britain has been so weak and ineffective ’ ; ‘ There 's no virtue in being ten or twenty years behind the times ’ ; ‘ Most Christians are nicer than God himself ’ ; ‘ It is the unshared areas of our lives where Jesus is not Lord ’ ; ‘ One of the reasons the church in Britain has failed to grow is quite simply because it is full of people who are extremely rude ’ ; ‘ Putting the life of God into institutional Christianity is rather like putting the life of a human being into a kangaroo … . ’ 'You are only a leader if someone 's following you' ( Gerald Quotes ) . |
| 18 | I note that it is the Liberal Democrats ' policy to take power away from parents and governors and to give it to centralised bureaucrats , and that is precisely like the Labour party policy as in so many things . |
| 19 | As my honourable friend said from the front bench , the Labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the European parliament and I hope that when the elections come Mr Deputy Speaker , and people will be arguing about why they 're voting for Europe on June the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they 've got erm erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last European election because the registration will be different , allowing all kinds of erm how can I put it foreigners in inverted commas , to vote in our elections in this country because it is the European elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed . |
| 20 | But it is the enclosing mountains that are the most impressive and arresting features of the glen . |
| 21 | It is the democratic Commons which has denied Britons what three-quarters of them want , according to the polls — a referendum . |
| 22 | While the top three or four companies now seem to be in reasonable financial shape it is the medium-sized firms in the top thirty that are feeling the pressure . |
| 23 | And while there are thousands of would-be stars willing to lend their names to a good cause , it is the successful stars that the charities squabble over . |
| 24 | However it is the quantitative measures which have so far dominated research in this field , and which will provide the basis for this review . |
| 25 | I think it is the critical statements , rather than the words of praise , that are more often uttered in the hearing of girls . |
| 26 | But the fact has to be faced that these are a minority , for the trials of old age can have a crippling effect on some relationships , and it is the various problems of the majority that we are examining here . |
| 27 | TGI Friday 's provides opportunities for people to progress up the career ladder and it is the individual characteristics , such as personality and drive , that could enable them to move from , for example , bartender to general manager over a period of time . |
| 28 | What is more , it is the individual speakers themselves who " identify the groups " on which they model their behaviour : the groups are thus the speakers ' own creations , not the creations of analysts . |
| 29 | But realism itself is just a matter of convention ; for some people it is the defamiliarized codes which seem realistic , whereas for others it is the traditional devices which convey a sense of reality , and no one device is inherently more realistic than another . |
| 30 | It is the brutalizing effects of warfare , not any pacifist revulsion against them , that rings through the language in which international politics were discussed in Britain throughout the 1940s . |