Example sentences of "[prep] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | To flush some out it is occasionally necessary to put a copy of the authority in a sealed envelope and insist it be conveyed at once to the chief executive . |
| 2 | He says this one comes from Brazil , South America and the flowers are not immediately remarkable , but what 's special out it is it has the most wonderful smell of red wine — actually it perhaps smells of red wine that 's been in the carpet overnight rather than Chateau Lafitte . |
| 3 | Below it is the old palmerie , the Corbeille , nourished by channels of water running from a hot spring poetically named The Source . |
| 4 | BELOW It is a bad idea to encourage a dog to jump into a vehicle as shown here . |
| 5 | A trapdoor in 2e leads upwards to chamber 2f ; however , the wooden ladder set into the wall below it is obviously rotten and useless , so a skill such as Scale Sheer Surfaces or a Flight spell is necessary to reach the trapdoor . |
| 6 | BELOW It is difficult to categorize some rock paintings and carvings as they can be regarded as sites or finds . |
| 7 | BELOW It is not feasible to put most finds from excavations on public display . |
| 8 | It is less clear whether it can be used to measure plant area though a possible technique is to redesign its optical system to focus on a small area and then use it to scan a larger area , agreeing that a reading above some pre-determined level is ON , below it is OFF . |
| 9 | Though the extent to which such a consciousness exists is not clear , one aspect of it is beyond dispute : 35 per cent of McGreil 's random sample of Dubliners and 46 per cent of the males in the sample , including a spread from the younger age groups and the more educated , supported the view that ‘ the use of violence , while regrettable , has been necessary for the achievement of non-Unionist rights ’ ( Mác Gréil 1977 : 387 ) . |
| 10 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 11 | One of the best forms of supplement is haemoglobin iron which is derived from beef blood and is completely natural ( virtually 100% of it is used by the body compared to very low utilisation by the body of synthetic iron-ferrous salts ) . |
| 12 | The beauty of it is that you can easily move them around on the wood . |
| 13 | Such is the wear of a Teddy that a textured finish is unnecessary , and most of it is sanded to look warn |
| 14 | Much of this is straightforward : some of it is n't . |
| 15 | Money or the lack of it is what had modelled the railwayman 's thinking in the formative years of BR . |
| 16 | Well , it is written by an American for Americans so some of the gear and some of the terminology will be unfamiliar to British climbers , but most of it is very relevant . |
| 17 | In context , the effect of it is hardly apologetic at all : |
| 18 | There is a huge Japanese presence in the City , but much of it is in commercial banking . |
| 19 | The flatness is a shame , because this is a public service : you can glean from the programme an idea both of how irrational the law can be , and of how flimsy most people 's understanding of it is . |
| 20 | We are a high-consumption society and we have got to conserve the national resource and make sure that every part of it is effectively used . |
| 21 | None of it is local stone : there is a tradition , perhaps connected with the Venetians or , later , the Turks , who successively occupied Crete till the late nineteenth century , of importing these stones and making jewellery . |
| 22 | I am conscious that I speak in parable ; but all that vast organisation and provision which must be made for the old in the coming generation will bring disappointment unless the purpose at the heart of it is one that satisfies . |
| 23 | The modern version we are using has the same hole , and our wood-burning stove has a pipe that goes through it , while the rest of it is closed with a cowl that is a bitch to fix . |
| 24 | Some of it is amusing , some of it pretentious drivel . |
| 25 | The name of it is — ‘ Old MacDonald had a farm ’ . ’ |
| 26 | A lot of it is to do with attitude . |
| 27 | Much of it is slow , contemplative , out of regular tempo , deploying distinctly unstreetwise exotic instrumentation . |
| 28 | As to foreign trade in Eastern Europe , two thirds of it is within the Comecon area , and the absolute levels are low . |
| 29 | And 44 percent of it is never even opened or read . |
| 30 | It is not a continuous road but a route , and a lot of it is the wide , slow Irrawaddy River . |