Example sentences of "it is [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is a painless way to travel with the unrivalled advantage of giving you an extra day 's skiing at each end of a week 's holiday . |
| 32 | However , it is a painless way to get started for the novice and will quickly introduce the user who is already familiar with the earlier version to the new features . |
| 33 | To one person this is an amusing fantasy , worth mentioning at the breakfast table , perhaps , but little more than that ; to the other it is a horrific nightmare which lingers in the memory for days . |
| 34 | This is a pregnancy where the placenta instead of feeding the fertilised egg ( or later the foetus when it is a partial mole ) feeds itself and grows all out of proportion and has to be removed . |
| 35 | ’ It is a biblical saying and a favourite of my father 's . |
| 36 | Yes it is a set piece that we practice in training . |
| 37 | It is a shameful thing . |
| 38 | It is a dolorous thing for a paladin to lose his faith , for it is his faith , more than his physical strength , which sustains such a man . |
| 39 | If you are following the recipe opposite for Pesto alla Genovese , do try to get some Pecorino to mix with the Parmesan — it is a sharp ewes ' milk cheese that really adds an extra bite to any pasta dish . |
| 40 | It is a laborious process , likely to lead to embarrassing blunders if badly done . |
| 41 | The Bride strips herself , glowing with pleasure at seeing herself seen , but it is a poor solitary exercise , for she is only impregnated by her imagination . |
| 42 | ‘ It is a poor thing , ’ he called out , ‘ when ministers turn recruiting sergeants ! ’ |
| 43 | It is hardly surprising that it is a poor fit for animals removed from the present by hundreds of millions of years of evolution . |
| 44 | He has a blessing to give his eldest and favourite son , but it is a poor thing compared with Jacob 's , so poor it is hardly recognizable as a blessing and could be taken for a curse : |
| 45 | It is a poor house Ellen and not clean but it is cheap and furnished after a fashion and best of all lies next to the Casa Guidi which raised my spirits . |
| 46 | It is a poor crisis that does n't generate some humour . |
| 47 | It is a poor leader who does not know his opposite numbers , and while I do not go to the extent of General Montgomery in the desert with a picture of my primary competitors hanging on the wall of my office , I know them all , and have a healthy respect for them . |
| 48 | Tony Abraham , chair man of Lansdown Conquest , says , to my mind quite rightly , that if you can draw a commercial accurately on a storyboard , it is a poor commercial , because the film camera should be able to do things no pen or paintbrush can . |
| 49 | It is a poor environment for learning correct approaches to disability . |
| 50 | ‘ It is a poor motivation to ask people to change by making them feel bad or unworthy . |
| 51 | It is a poor material . |
| 52 | The second factor of importance with respect to the nature of a floating charge is that although a floating charge relates to future assets it is a present charge and not a future one . |
| 53 | It is a philosophical commonplace that we can not learn very much about human language from the singing of birds or the dancing of bees . |
| 54 | It is a philosophical problem , a fact recognised by scientists themselves on both sides of the argument . |
| 55 | It is a defining feature of capitalist society that the productive wealth of the society ( on which the whole population depends for employment and products ) is privately owned and controlled . |
| 56 | But it is a melodramatic exaggeration to suppose that every breach of law endangers , by however small a degree , the survival of the government , or of law and order . |
| 57 | The most exciting and terrifying thing about political campaigning is that it is a tangible measure of your communication skills . |
| 58 | But Chris Avery , of stockbrokers Smith New Court , said : ‘ It is a tangible , positive step forward and takes us well down the path of Al Yamamah two becoming a reality rather than a hope for bonanza . ’ |
| 59 | It is a naked-eye object , and binoculars show it excellently ; its actual surface brightness is much greater than that of the Small Cloud . |
| 60 | It is a dizzying thought . |