Example sentences of "it [is] [prep] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 2 | Those more experienced than Marie in practising acts of intimidation and violence could have told her that it is of ten a mistake to delay , to let your victims talk to you . |
| 3 | The EC is all kinds of things , good and bad , but it is above all a machine for producing proposed regulations embodied in documents . |
| 4 | It is above all a crisis of and for British capitalism , but it is one in which the working class and its organisations have been unable to mount an effective resistance , let alone develop an effective struggle for a socialist solution : Conservative ideas and values may not be pervasive amongst working-class people , but they were sufficiently popular in 1983 to deliver 32 per cent of trade unionists ' votes to the Conservative Party . |
| 5 | It is after all a film about a mother and daughter relationship . |
| 6 | It is after all a dealers ' fair and gives us a chance to show what we have to potential and established clients without the auction houses breathing down our necks . |
| 7 | It is after all a suburb of Abingdon |
| 8 | It is in such a sense that I am post-Christian . |
| 9 | We all dissemble on the subject of our inner life , because it is in such a fluid state . |
| 10 | It is in such a situation that Brian Gallagher 's first novel of love , treachery and political intrigue , Invincible ( Town House , £4.99 ) , is set . |
| 11 | It is against such a background of fervent articulate piety in Europe , always presenting the Church with the challenge of potential heresy , and occasionally erupting into mass movements like the hysterically fervent white-robed flagellants who lashed themselves in hysterical penitential preparation for the Second Coming , that the English situation in the fourteenth century has to be seen . |
| 12 | It is against such a backcloth that the aims and purposes of both the government 's national curriculum proposals and the Inner London Education Authority 's Improving Secondary Schools must be set . |
| 13 | It is within such a framework of thought that it is contended that a priest must necessarily be male . |
| 14 | It is within such a context that the specific proposals of ISS with regard to assessment are set . |
| 15 | It is like half a bracket and in fact it is called a ket vector . |