Example sentences of "it [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ? |
| 2 | Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : If any new hospitals are built in Wales , such as the East Glamorgan hospital , will the funding for those hospitals , in terms of capital costs , be entirely met by the Welsh Office or , as a result of last week 's disclosure in Construction News , are we to take it that Treasury guidelines to introduce private sector money into such building will mean that the commitment from the Welsh Office will be less ? |
| 3 | So let's keep it that way folks . |
| 4 | Business mythology has it that computer firms in Japan are no good at software and will never break the dominance of IBM , the world 's biggest computer company . |
| 5 | and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately . |
| 6 | When you said uniforms , it that fire uniforms ? |
| 7 | For phenomenalists such as Ayer tended to take it that observation statements report the nature of the observer 's sensory states . |
| 8 | But why is it that AIDS victims suffer from such obscure infections ? |
| 9 | Conversely , why is it that finance managers seem to think they have a monopoly on numeracy ? |
| 10 | It is not only the environment but also the animals and plants that inhabit it that display rhythms . |
| 11 | Marketing dogma of old had it that car buyers do n't want to hear about car safety , preferring not to dwell on the possibility of being killed or injured on the road . |
| 12 | The colliery owners undertook to support the new Union by giving it sole negotiating rights ; by agreeing to deduct the Union contribution from wages ; by contributing 12,500 to the Union 's pension fund and by harrying known members of the NMA . |
| 13 | Ivor thought it odd defending champions Europe should go first because tradition , and courtesy , normally allows the visitors the honour . |
| 14 | Demos are an excellent way for amateur programmers to hone their skills as they can set themselves any task they wish to perfect , be it exciting text scrollies , explosive FX , multiple sprite animation ( mention sprite masking and you 're a dead man ! — Ed ) , rotation , scaling or just about any other facet that makes Commodore games so wild ‘ n ’ wonderful . |
| 15 | In the third division , Hereford United 's aim is to make it 2 home wins in a row . |
| 16 | One big attraction is the claim that it standard AIX applications will ‘ generally run ’ with out modification . |
| 17 | Pete Sivell ( Avon Angling ) made it three frame places in successive matches with 8–13–0 for third . |
| 18 | I 'd call it functional group isomers . |
| 19 | The position on Euro Cities also is that we , and unfortunately are the leading European cities that are involved in promoting good initiatives on the expertise of what exists within , be it economic development , be it equal opportunities policies , we are promoting this city and the benefit of getting those grants and having those foresight of putting officers into Brussels means that is being invited by other cities within Europe and Eastern Europe to develop links based on what our expertise is . |
| 20 | Peter Watts , currently the president of Tangent , will head up the new venture , which will use ISDN technology , allowing for electronic software distribution and simultaneous voice , data and image computer conferencing , all areas on which Unilinx has it long range sights . |
| 21 | On the face of it gross profit rates showed a steady decline over the 1960s and a dramatic fall between 1970 and 1975 from 23 per cent to 13 percent ; if capital consumption is taken into account the fall was from 17 to 4 per cent . |
| 22 | Whatever the age group we 're working with ( be it five year olds or fifty year olds ) the basic elements of drama remain the same : |
| 23 | what they call it desperate dye faces |
| 24 | Campaigners fighting to keep it open fear children will die if the ward — one of the world 's leading child cancer centres — is moved to another hospital without Bart 's expertise . |
| 25 | ‘ Small businesses do n't want to be collecting debts — it just causes problems . |
| 26 | Assuming that no mature way can be found to speak from the workers ' culture or meaning system , as opposed to breaking it down and imposing on it other meaning systems such as that espoused by management , then passive individuals will be fostered . |
| 27 | And Malcolm Wilson made it two home drivers in the top 10 when he completed the last timed phase in seventh place behind the wheel of his Ford Sierra Cosworth . |
| 28 | The brown hyena deposits two different smell chemicals by everting an anal pouch and squeezing it round grass stems . |
| 29 | The term also carries with it certain elite connotations , and quickly generates references to ‘ standards ’ and ‘ excellence ’ . |
| 30 | Figures are not produced for the lengths of old field boundaries removed or watercourses canalised but in 1983 , SAFER Auvergne spent 163,481FF on building new farms and buildings ; 470 , 165FF on irrigation , drainage and straightening water courses ; 1,859,119FF on roads , clearance for cultivation ( scrub etc ? ) and boundary construction , much of it attracting state subsidies . |