Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 Special classes usually have the advantage of lower teacher-pupil ratios and it is therefore easier for teachers to organise activities in which the child 's level of participation in social and communicative activities can be carefully monitored and adapted to suit existing abilities .
2 Erm polyandry 's the last type of example , he has one erm many males and one female and with this system the differences between the sexes is the first and er males that do their larger parental investment females and it 's a very rare .
3 The bloodhound 's nose may be so overwhelmed by the scent of fresh skin cells that it is unable to follow them .
4 It does n't come up with irrational error messages and it 's nice and simple to use .
5 Alloxan is a diabetogenic drug that is known to produce free oxygen radicals as it is broken down .
6 Re M is important as it clarifies the law on privilege and social work records but it is important to consider it within the wider context of access to information generally .
7 There is very little known abut the carvers of medieval bench ends but it is thought that most of them were ordinary local craftsmen , and so there would have been no reason to record this fact .
8 You might occasionally need to change your exercise programme to fit in with different needs or different time constraints but it is essential that you maintain an adequate level of physical fitness .
9 Windows is rapidly becoming the standard for personal computer interfaces so it is very easy for someone to move to using the pen version .
10 ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’
11 ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’
12 Unfortunately , as work by Vickerman and others at the Channel Tunnel Research Unit shows , transport forms a relatively small component of overall product costs and it is difficult to isolate the benefits of specific infrastructure improvements .
13 We approach much of by paths made for staling purposes and we have easy walking surfaces because it is grazed .
14 Similarly , an increase in the supply of money will have real output effects whether it is anticipated or otherwise .
15 So I immediately started to look into these things , which are personal attack alarms and it is a very basic er deterrent value .
16 This week 's Talking Point suggests how we can help to save our threatened beauty spots before it 's too late .
17 This nickname possibly came from around 1865 , when this family was associated with the barges operated by William Lee 's works for a quite famous barge by the name of Monarch won many of the annual barge races and it is known that the Mills family skippered these barges .
18 The term " Urgonian " has become almost a dirty word in Cretaceous stratigraphy , for it is not one of the internationally accepted stage names and it is said to be a diachronous , southern facies .
19 This particular form of controversy is well illustrated by recent discussions on karst geomorphology , which seem to have resulted in the general attitude that there are certain forms which characterise tropical karst , but that the effect of lithology is as important in tropical limestone landforms as it is in temperate limestone landforms .
20 It is only on large research machines that it is possible to perform various geometric and surface mapping techniques that can be used to handle general complex objects .
21 In many respects , rocks are like pitch , which flows like a liquid if it is left unsupported for long enough , for example on a steeply-sloping roof , but will also break suddenly along clean shiny fracture surfaces if it is given a sharp blow .
22 Sun Alliance has given notice to National Home Loans that it is cancelling its payment protection scheme at the end of the month .
23 They had three on on door I mean three security men but it 's not worth it mind .
24 Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good
25 STEVE Hancock monitors one of the Group 's three slip tankers as it is fuelled to transport slip clay around factories .
26 Although at easter time there is some shocking bad weather sometimes , you know really cold sleety showers and it 's just a question of getting out there to the sand and get it over quickly .
27 As a result , fossil bone accumulations are usually so much more fragmentary than undamaged pellet assemblages that it is difficult to compare them .
28 Sun Microsystems Inc will be building its next-generation workstations and servers out of a family of 64-bit multiprocessor chips that it is designing called UltraSparc , and the chips should take Sun machines close to the end of the decade .
29 It 's worth mentioning that you 're not automatically insured on dry ski slopes so it 's worth arranging some personal cover — accidents are n't especially common but you never know .
30 It wo n't be one of the great parade horses because it 's not quite big enough but I am sure there will be lots of people who will be looking forward to riding it .
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