Example sentences of "it is [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Crick , 1979 , p. 132 ) The language is not so hard to understand , and it is jejune to suppose that not knowing it has impeded philosophy , or that knowing it will help a lot . ) |
| 2 | What makes an object fashionable it is ability to signify the present ; it is thus always doomed to become unfashionable with the movement of time . |
| 3 | Engineering employment in the first half of nineteen ninety three is estimated to be a hundred and twenty thousand fewer than twelve months earlier and it is forecast to fall another forty five thousand in the next twelve months . |
| 4 | In the UK , too , it is conduct to exploit a monopoly position which is attacked under the Fair Trade Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , rather than the process of acquiring that position . |
| 5 | ‘ All internment is selective , so it is nonsense to describe it in that way . |
| 6 | It is nonsense to claim — as one or two Opposition Members have — that councils will not be ready to implement the tax in 1993 . |
| 7 | It is nonsense to close missions so that we can meet the new and welcome demand from the Baltic states and , for example , Phnom Penh . |
| 8 | It is nonsense to suppose that local authorities should be let off the financial hook for flagrant mismanagement of their responsibilities . |
| 9 | It is nonsense to speak of a person inferring what he himself means . |
| 10 | It is nonsense to think in those terms . |
| 11 | The reiver 's last proud defiance has passed into Border history : ‘ It is folly to seek grace at a graceless face ’ . |
| 12 | I … hope that you will not attempt to outbid L[loyd] G[eorge] or the Socialists in a vote-catching programme … it is folly to attempt a competition with irresponsible people , and I believe LG 's proposals have given us an opportunity of attacking , instead of defending , ourselves … . |
| 13 | Investments in Flash memory and liquid crystal diode displays mean that Sharp Corp will keep both capital and research and development expenditure almost unchanged in the fiscal year starting tomorrow : Sharp will invest $225m to double output to 200,000 displays a month and will add $130m to the $86m already invested in fabrication plants for Flash memory , using the design it licensed from Intel Corp ; and it is plans to invest $86m in research and development . |
| 14 | In fact , the group offered a bed for Hillsborough disaster victim Tony Bland in a hospital that it is plans to open in Liverpool . |
| 15 | This may not worry a small brewer unduly since other effects offer greater potential for variability but it is anathema to bulk production which must couple closely to marketing and customer perception . |
| 16 | It is rape to have sexual intercourse with a woman by impersonating her husband or by deceiving her as to the nature of the act . |
| 17 | It is practice to state in the agreement that all warranties are subject to matters fairly and properly disclosed in the disclosure letter . |
| 18 | Similarly , Tao Te Ching says ‘ It is wisdom to know others ; it is enlightenment to know one 's self . ’ |
| 19 | What is more , in this day and age it is madness to allow children to roam around after dark knocking on strangers ' doors . |
| 20 | In a storm it is madness to move . |
| 21 | ‘ Under these circumstances it is madness to cut training . |
| 22 | ‘ Under these circumstances it is madness to cut training . |
| 23 | Similarly , Tao Te Ching says ‘ It is wisdom to know others ; it is enlightenment to know one 's self . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ There is no easy decision because to let everything stay as it is means to let the Communist explosion which took place at the Congress spread across Russia . ’ |
| 25 | It is rubbish to think that , because Sheikh Mohammed and his brothers did not bid for a single horse at Newmarket last week , the racing game is about to die on its feet . |
| 26 | A spokesman said : ‘ The ship itself is the property of the Receiver of Wreck and it is theft to take anything from it . |
| 27 | ‘ When you get something like this you always get souvenir hunters but the ship itself is the property of the Receiver of Wreck and it is theft to take anything from it . |
| 28 | Never again , because in sheer economic terms it is lunacy to spend upwards of £80 million to knock out a war machine that actually only provided some £20 billion of contracts for western industry . |
| 29 | It is policy to screen all mothers with risk factors for gestational diabetes ( family history of diabetes , previous gestational diabetes , poor obstetric history , clinical polyhydramnios , maternal obesity , or previous macrosomic infant ( >4000 g ) with a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test at 30 weeks ' gestation . |
| 30 | This view is supported by the District Councils who are united in their opposition for a policy incorporating more detailed guidance , particularly if it is sort to identify specific categories of exceptions likely to be considered to represent appropriate development in the countryside . |