Example sentences of "it is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) ( b ) ) and it is incompetent to seek to lead evidence regarding the other grounds of appeal : Johnston v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1981 S.L.T. 257 ; Troc Sales Ltd. v. Kirkcaldy District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 77 ; Cigaro ( Glasgow ) Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , cit. , all overruling Ladbroke Racing ( Scotland East ) Ltd. v. Midlothian District Licensing Board , 1981 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 12 . |
| 3 | But they 're different , the thing about the fully-fashioned is that it is shaped . |
| 4 | Simone de Beauvoir asserted that ‘ society looks upon old age as a kind of shameful secret that it is unseemly to mention ’ . |
| 5 | Your voice is as loud as it is insistent and , as if that were n't bad enough , what you speak of is as boring as it is unseemly . |
| 6 | Although it is unseemly that the law should protect the publication of malicious falsehoods , absolute privilege is justified on the practical ground that without it , persons with a public duty to speak out might be threatened with vexatious actions for slander and libel . |
| 7 | From this material he felt justified in inferring that the universe of galaxies is isotropic about ourselves , and in due course , in inferring that it is homogeneous in the large . |
| 8 | He 's realizes which one it is bloody hell ! |
| 9 | It is bloody huge , he 's had the fireman round there ! |
| 10 | is the straightforward transaction reflecting cash flowing out of the authority ( assuming it is external loan repayment ) to repay loans . |
| 11 | If it is external , who owns the designs ? |
| 12 | In each case it is elderly people living alone who obtain the most support from the state , and among them men receive slightly more than women . |
| 13 | It is nontoxic and does not interfere in the phenol-chloroform extraction procedure . |
| 14 | As the House of Lords Select Committee put it , ‘ It is consistent with the attribute of sovereignty in the international law sense for states to enter into groupings such as alliances or international organisations … |
| 15 | One point to remember ( it is consistent with Friedman 's account ) is that a person may have limited authority ( e.g. , in matters concerning football only , or in military affairs but not in the conduct of the economy ) . |
| 16 | It is consistent with denying its authority and doing my best to overturn it , including inciting its subjects to revolt against it . |
| 17 | A further advantage of RMI over previous approaches was that it is consistent with the growing influence of general management . |
| 18 | These five species constitute what may be called the typical owl pattern , and even though it encompasses a fair degree of variability it is consistent enough for departures from it to be instantly recognizable . |
| 19 | ‘ … to collect appropriate information , as defined by the activities of the Highways and Planning departments , to maintain that information cohesively , such that it is consistent , accurate , up-to-date , complete and easy to manage , and to provide access to that information within the time constraints of the users , … '' |
| 20 | We still await determinations of the ages of the rock itself or of any of its components , but the degree of cosmic-ray bombardment is being measured to see if it is consistent with the short interval required to project material from the Moon to the Earth . |
| 21 | We have already seen evidence of this in Zande witchcraft beliefs with their eager concern to assimilate and ‘ naturalize ’ new information so that it is consistent with the basic assumptions which Zande take for granted . |
| 22 | However that may be , it is , surely , part of the very meaning of being rational that one tries to organise one 's mental stance towards the world so that it is consistent and comprehensive , consistent in that its elements do not frustrate each other , comprehensive in that it covers one 's stance to as wide as possible a range of phenomena . |
| 23 | Whatever the factors underlying the different growth rates , it is consistent with the uneven relationship emerging in the inter-war years . |
| 24 | It is consistent with this that we should use the role of the fieldworker in speech-exchanges as a means of classifying different speech-styles . |
| 25 | It is consistent with any kind of human behaviour , and just because of that , it tells us nothing about human behaviour . |
| 26 | It is consistent with Lord Alverstone C.J. 's remarks at p. 395 , cited above , that if she had not done so , i.e. , if the transaction had not been properly explained to her , the security would not have been enforceable . |
| 27 | The fiduciary relationship , if it is to exist at all , must accommodate itself to the terms of the contract so that it is consistent with , and conforms to , them . |
| 28 | Brevity , so far as it is consistent with intelligibility , will be your over-riding aim in report writing . |
| 29 | Thus , although the legal model may prevent directors from regarding third party interests as ends in their own right , it is arguable that it is consistent with the directors ' obligations to the shareholders for the company to sacrifice profits in order to protect them given these possible relationships with shareholder utility . |
| 30 | There was also some relative improvement in the growth of construction and service industries in the more active policy period but this was smaller than that in manufacturing industries : it is consistent with a priori expectations about the multiplier effects of increased manufacturing activity , the increasing differential government expenditure in Developing Areas on health , education , and items of infrastructure and the adverse effect of continued decline in the declining industries sector . |