Example sentences of "[art] [noun] it is [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the quotation is not capable of immediate acceptance by the buyer it is thus an invitation to treat , and , at this stage , the seller has kept all of his options open . |
| 2 | Morally speaking , we have no doubt that it is ; but again reverting to our cynical sociological standpoint , we suspect that on the contrary it is often the dispelling of secrecy that causes problems for the system and exacerbates the crisis . |
| 3 | Whereas in the West it is generally the province of the privileged , in developing countries it is often the beating heart of resistance to oppression . |
| 4 | The absence of wings , on the other hand , may be a primitive character as in the Apterygota , but among the Pterygota it is always a secondary feature due to the loss of pre-existing organs . |
| 5 | To avoid having a large number of small accounts in the ledger it is often the case in some hotels to ask members of groups or parties to pay for ‘ extras ’ at time of service . |
| 6 | The daily routine is disrupted only by extreme weather and by the rut , and even during the rut it is only the males whose activity is much changed . |
| 7 | At the christening it is the parents who have felt the need for religious involvement in the naming ceremony ; at the burial it is mainly the bereaved who are concerned and at the wedding it is the parties themselves who seek the ministrations of a church . |
| 8 | ‘ At the moment it is only a feeling of mine ; a hunter 's suspicion . |
| 9 | In nineteen eighty I think it was five hundred and twenty , and at the moment it is about a thousand and two . |
| 10 | At the moment it is still a new and unproven product but it could well represent the next generation of TechDoc software , at least so far as the corporate publisher is concerned . |
| 11 | As a terminus nowadays of the lake excursion service during the season it is today a main stop for many international train services . |
| 12 | As Sa'di said : ‘ If a diamond falls in the dirt it is still a diamond , yet even if dust ascends all the way to heaven it remains without value . ’ ’ |
| 13 | It is a common complaint of institutionalized paranoiacs in the West that they are perfectly sane and being persecuted by psychiatrists ; in certain socialist utopias in the East it is sometimes the literal truth . |
| 14 | Various calculations can be made as to the continued profitability of the project , the likelihood of further funds and the possibility of selling what has been done so far , but in the end it is still an open-ended situation depending on the calculation of risk . |
| 15 | Yes , but in the end it is always the Berg Three Orchestral Pieces that moves me most . |
| 16 | At the beginning of the century it is still a term of abuse , equivalent to ‘ Hun ’ or ‘ Vandal ’ , denoting ‘ barbaric ’ as its Renaissance originators intended : ‘ Ah , rustic , ruder than Gothic ! ’ |
| 17 | In the boroughs it is normally the Social Services , or the Environmental Health Department who would handle the arrangements . |
| 18 | With the economy predicted to be on the upturn it is perhaps the right time for Allied to invest in the Firkin chain and cash in early on the next consumer boom . |
| 19 | But though there is a greater abundance of H 2 O in the atmosphere beneath the clouds it is still a very minor constituent , and the quantity is poorly known . |
| 20 | Within the family it is usually the words and their literal meaning which take primary importance . |
| 21 | Most of the time it is just a minor irritant , but interference can have far reaching effects . |
| 22 | But to a geologist it is about a thousand times shorter than he can ordinarily measure ! |
| 23 | If a customer asks a broker to deal on an exchange it is usually an implied term of their contract that the broker will do so in accordance with the usages of that exchange . |