Example sentences of "of [noun sg] it is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to seal off the source of nutrition it is necessary for the activated lymphocytes to gather round the blood vessels once they have used up the local resources . |
| 2 | Of course it is necessary for the prospective student to possess a reasonable amount of intelligence as well as a genuine desire to help others . |
| 3 | Of course it is right for people in the north-east to think of themselves as north-easterners . |
| 4 | An immediate and obvious problem with pluralists ' methods is that in the effort to achieve falsifiability , only major visible issues reaching decisional status are used , yet of course it is possible for pre-decisional power to be used to keep grievances from becoming observable issues . |
| 5 | Of course it is essential to be price competitive . |
| 6 | Of course it is different with complete operas , but even then , there are elaborate boxes containing the discs and booklet ‘ jewel cases ’ complete with booklet and no outer box . |
| 7 | And of course it is open to them to take a contrary view to any conclusion reached on any matter by the panel . |
| 8 | The initial puzzles seem pretty straightforward , and would allow the game to be ‘ adult supervised ’ for the youngsters , although the computer hardened eleven/twelve year old would probably handle it — with the occasional flash of totally brilliant parental genius ( in reality of course it is likely to be the other way round ! ) . |
| 9 | It is not an easy thing to get rid of a body by dumping it in the sea , except from a boat , Of course it is less of a problem if you have access to a pier or a jetty , but most such places are public and liable to be overlooked , even at night . |
| 10 | Against a background of recession it is good to be able to report that , in 1992 , Wimpol had another profitable year with a positive cash flow and the second highest ever level of sales . |
| 11 | After a few months of therapy it is usual for even the most intense form of cat phobia to disappear . |
| 12 | In other words , while Tillich maintains that when finite particulars are given the status of ultimacy it is detrimental to true religion and a form of demonization , Gandhi insists that symbols which become fetishes are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 13 | Consequently , while Parliamentary sovereignty is ‘ an instrument well adapted for the establishment of democratic despotism ’ , on a true understanding of the interlocking nature of the concept of sovereignty with the principles of the rule of law it is conducive to the promotion of liberty . |
| 14 | With the benefit of hindsight it is possible at a later stage to determine whether the strategy provided a safeguard against these forces and , if not , whether the reasons were foreseen or at least foreseeable . |
| 15 | In the absence of a greater range of evidence it is difficult to be certain about how representative the Sutton Hoo mound 1 boat is of the range of ship types . |
| 16 | For other types of paper it is best to leech out some of the colour from a marker pen point by placing it tip to tip against the blender pen . |
| 17 | Turning to movements within the income distribution , mean-variance analysis has been used to illustrate that progressive income taxation will tend to lower the amount of risk-taking it is optimal for a utility-maximizing individual to undertake . |
| 18 | Given the difficulty of identifying the different types of dementia it is usual for epidemiological studies of this disease to concentrate upon organic brain failure as a single condition . |
| 19 | In the view of successive Secretaries of State it is essential in the interests of national security and of any other grounds for which a warrant may be issued that no such inference should ever be capable of being drawn . |
| 20 | If the harmonization process is to have any hope of acceleration it is essential for law schools to reduce their preoccupation with national law and their assumption of its superiority over other legal systems and to revert at least in some degree to the internationalism of medieval law teaching . |
| 21 | In this decade of evangelisation it is important for the Church to ‘ teach publicly on moral issues and for its lay members to become more involved in the social and political life of the country … that all members of the Church should take part in the Church 's mission of bringing Christ to the world . ’ |
| 22 | The two can occur just by themselves , in a compound represented chemically as silicon dioxide ; this is silica , and in the form of quartz it is one of the commonest rock-forming minerals in the world . |
| 23 | Although our sample may not be rigorously representative of the whole population with complications of reflux it is representative of the population presenting to physicians and surgeons with a gastroenterological intrest . |