Example sentences of "[subord] it is [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 2 | The New Right in choosing to focus on , and criticise , pressure groups , parties , and elected governments as the very stuff of British politics , chooses to ignore other phenomena that are of political significance , such as the power of the secret state that we will be considering in Chapter S. Moreover , although it is a perspective which is critical of things , criticism is restricted to politics , and to democratic politics at that , and there is no attempt to direct critical attention to the functioning of the economic system and to the power which lurks hidden within it . |
| 3 | Traditional examinations rely on a single mark or a grade to indicate the level of performance relative to other pupils , although it is an indication which says nothing about the nature of the achievement . |
| 4 | This is why registration in Part A is preferable although it is the defendant who carries the burden of proof . |
| 5 | Either way it seems like we , even if it is a problem it 's Paul |
| 6 | But when you begin fishing , if it is a swim you have never fished before with a swimfeeder , it is essential that you find out how long it takes to empty so that you can set up a rhythm of casting and feeding . |
| 7 | If it is a technique which works for you then by all means use it . |
| 8 | you are not dealt with sympathetically ( especially if it is a matter which is causing you emotional distress ) ; |
| 9 | And she has promised a reward to whosoever finds the keys : if it is a man , he is to marry the princess and be her husband and true love ; if it is a maiden she will become the princess 's first lady-in-waiting and sit at her left hand . |
| 10 | So , if it is a male , we cut off its testicles ; if it is a female we cut out its uterus and its ovaries ; and if we are house-proud , we also cut out the claws of both sexes . |
| 11 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |
| 12 | We was carrying this ta erm table up the stairs and some boy knocked it and it fire alarms , everyone was , water started pouring down cos they have all the water as well , like , if it is a fire it was pouring |
| 13 | If it is the buyer he will have to give up goods ( or their value ) for which he has paid good money . |
| 14 | If it is the wife who dies , her personal representatives may not be aware of her interest in the house or may have difficulty in producing proof of the same , much to the detriment of her estate . |
| 15 | It is important here to note that Rule 3 applies only if it is the seller who is to do the weighing , measuring , testing , etc . |
| 16 | But , as already suggested , if it is the police who are doing the tapping what is the prospect of effective steps to stop it ? |
| 17 | ‘ If it is the intestine which is infected , the infection is transient and will not reach inside the egg , ’ he said . |
| 18 | This seems to imply that the section can not apply if it is the proceedings themselves which constitute the matter which is of general public interest . |
| 19 | Do not wear excessive jewellery , especially if it is the sort which jangles . |
| 20 | If it is the plaintiff who changes their story then things are even worse because you may have to replead the case . |
| 21 | past that if it is an accident I do n't wan na go past it . |
| 22 | Save as provided in regulation 36 of these regulations , no person , being a motor trader and the holder of a trade vehicle , shall use any mechanically propelled vehicle on a public road by virtue of that licence unless it is a vehicle which is temporarily in his possession in the course of his business as a motor trader or a recovery vehicle kept by him for the purpose of dealing with disabled vehicles in the course of that business . |
| 23 | But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope . |
| 24 | Sometimes younger people consider this to be nothing more than morbid indulgence , and refuse to listen , mainly because it is a subject they do not care to think about . |
| 25 | This is because it is only the school and its daily managers who can assess what it can afford — and what it has to afford — to do in terms of staff time and money and because it is the school which has , in the end , to initiate any assessment of the type of community assistance which will provide its partners with the benefits they seek . |
| 26 | For one thing , it is misleading to quote any definite power for a telescope , because it is the eyepiece which determines the magnification . |
| 27 | This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) A change in the content of the curriculum is justified because it is the content which is intrinsically worth while and any improvement in content is ipso facto an improvement in education ; i.e. we change subject content for its own sake . |
| 29 | But do we talk this way because it is the way we think ? |
| 30 | But of considerable , perhaps even equal importance , is the budget , because it is the budget which determines how much will be collected in taxation . |