Example sentences of "[noun sg] it is [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a result it is better protected against cold winds than it used to be . ’ |
| 2 | The term ‘ further education ’ ( FE ) is used sometimes in a general sense to cover all post-school education , but in practice it is usually differentiated from higher education ( study at universities , polytechnics and colleges of higher education ) , and divided into the categories of non-advanced further education ( NAFE ) , which means A-level standard or below , and advanced further education ( AFE ) which is above A level or its equivalent . |
| 3 | The analysis of required skills ought in principle to have an ergonomics input but in practice it is usually done on the basis of experience of similar system designs in the past . |
| 4 | In industry it is usually done with portable meters which measure the electrical resistance between two needles pressed into the wood and thus give the answer much more quickly . |
| 5 | The Dryopithecini retain the primitively thin enamel of early hominoids , and in some aspects of the skull and dentition it is little advanced over proconsulids . |
| 6 | If there is a lacuna in the law it is probably confined to combinations to do acts which amount to crimes but to no other wrong , but the exclusion of such cases from the tort of conspiracy may be a necessary consequence of Lonrho whatever the mental element required for the tort . |
| 7 | In the summer the monarch is distributed from Mexico to Canada , but with falling temperatures it moves south , and in the winter it is only found in Mexico and the southernmost United States ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 8 | You do n't need to treat every dialogue in the same way anyway , so keep that kind of work for audio materials and try to use video for the work it is best suited for . |
| 9 | This is usually called an occupational or company pension if the employer is private ; and in the public sector it is often known as superannuation . |
| 10 | One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp . |
| 11 | I hope that it is not too perfunctory a way of dealing with this interesting point to say that in my opinion it is comprehensively answered by the judgments in Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd. v. Maxwell [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 991 which Mr. Rawley , for the defendants , brought to your Lordships ' attention . |
| 12 | This is a direct and primary liability , though after an assignment it is normally accompanied by rights of indemnity against the first assignee , and also , where there have been further assignments , against the assignee in whom the lease is for the time being vested . |
| 13 | For a considerable distance it is now followed by a main road ( A422 and B4525 ) , but near Culworth it becomes a narrow lane , running through almost deserted country , past Adstone Lodge and Foxley to Cold Higham . |
| 14 | Again , although it can tolerate freshwater for a while it is best kept in brackish water graduating to marine water prior to maturity . |
| 15 | Denial is found in any situation of acute stress and is , for example it is commonly seen in bereavement , redundancy , dismissal , divorce and in major disease or injury . |
| 16 | Thus for example it is sometimes held to be of significance that the first appearance of the resurrected Christ is said to have been to a woman . |
| 17 | In this area it is entirely focused on the specific question of improving police relations with Catholics , rather than community relations , although the latter is not absent altogether . |
| 18 | It was built in 1907 to serve the local soft fruit trade , and although it is an elegant bridge it is actually built of concrete blocks which were made on the site . |
| 19 | In an amplified state it is generally referred to as ‘ expanded consciousness ’ — a condition that allows us to process through our nervous system , information from the environment which during a normal state of consciousness is totally inaccessible . |
| 20 | If tannin occurs built onto a layer of scale it is best treated as acid soluble Dirt attachment : |
| 21 | By a similar slip of logic it is sometimes presumed in such discussions that voluntary bodies are the only or the main beneficiaries of voluntary help and cash aid . |
| 22 | In Anglo-Saxon society it is usually confined to greetings between men and women who , are socially , but not sexually , intimate . |
| 23 | In this sense , one of the components of the personality is regarded as being inherently ‘ aggressive ’ , except that in life it is normally held in check by the mind . |
| 24 | ( This word only has a weak form when used in a relative clause ; when used with a demonstrative sense it is always pronounced in its strong form . ) |
| 25 | Under this consideration it is usually accompanied by fantasy and masturbation , sometimes by spontaneous ejaculation . |
| 26 | Solubility : Benzene does not dissolve in water , as it is a liquid it is usually referred to as immiscible with water . |
| 27 | In either case it is generally seen as a last resort . |
| 28 | At present it is simply pumped into storage tanks for monitoring , and subsequently discharged into the open sea . |
| 29 | Now available on both the Macintosh and the PC it is still used as a benchmark product although certain aspects of its design are coming under attack from other , more recent , products . |
| 30 | In the west it is heavily dissected by the Ribeira da Janela and the Ribeira do Seixal , both of which flow to the north coast . |