Example sentences of "is [adj] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is frail and it is upsetting for her . ’ |
| 2 | A coherent school policy on Standard English is possible if it is recognised that all these views are legitimate . |
| 3 | The Jockey Club believes that in the long term Sunday racing without cash betting is impractical and it is resigned to trying to bring about a change in the legislation by a private members ' bill . |
| 4 | Perhaps some positive aspects are contained within fat 's designation as taboo ; for instance , some people find fat attractive because it is forbidden and marginal : ‘ It may be that the forbidden is exciting because it is forbidden . |
| 5 | It is tautological if all that is being said is that where there is no industrial capitalism , there are no industrial capitalists , and vice versa ; and it is fallacious if it is intended as a substantial proposition meaning that the limited growth in some Third World economies is due to the absence of innovators , intermediaries , risk-takers and the like . |
| 6 | In such cases the phase information is superfluous because it is implied in the plot of the amplitude behaviour and only the latter is required . |
| 7 | The basic professional stand against censorship is sound but it is weakened by inaction when opportunities arise to be decisive and it is further weakened by elements of the profession which seek to censor , while often interpreting this as positive discrimination . |
| 8 | The traditional finish is French polish , which is so-called because it was invented by a French cabinet maker in about 1825 . |
| 9 | Thus it is clear that it is owing to her body that a woman is defective . ) |
| 10 | It is not very clear whether section 17(2) adds a third element or is subsumed in ( b ) , but it is clear that it was intended to be more difficult to obtain an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases than in others . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , problems still remain with regard to delivery and it seems that in the case of an individual delivery will still be necessary as the old law still applies , with the result that a document will be treated as delivered when it is clear that it was intended by one of the parties that he was to be bound by the terms of the document . |
| 12 | It is not MAS practice to fix fees solely contingent on the price obtained for the company ; however , acting on a part fixed/part contingent basis is acceptable provided it is judged that the interest in selling is genuine , the price expectation is realistic and there is likely to be at least one buyer . |
| 13 | See so it 's just by learning the pattern it 's like say if you were you were playing football every time somebody every time the ball came towards you you had to learn all about the way the ball goes Oh it 's you know it 's slowing down cos the grass is wet and it 's curling and things like that . |
| 14 | In some of the streets of St Ann 's nothing is personal unless it is whispered . |
| 15 | As a general rule , when the demand for a resource is such that it is allocated for two thirds of the available time , then programs spend twice as long waiting for the resource as using it . |
| 16 | Higher-than-expected entitlements levels , according to the Congressional Budget Office , is one of the main reasons why the deficit is bigger than it was expected to be in the 1990 budget agreement . |
| 17 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 18 | But reference to bandwidth is meaningless unless it is qualified by distance of the run . |
| 19 | The strain energy in a stretched material is very like the potential energy which is in a raised weight , except , of course , that the stress is changing as the material is strained whereas the weight of a weight is constant as it is raised to any normal height . |
| 20 | YTS training is satisfactory provided it is offered as employed status . |
| 21 | YTS is satisfactory provided it is offered as employed status . |
| 22 | Whatever the material it is likely that it was primed in white and on this the scenes were painted ; the shiny black of the red-figure vase must give a quite contrary effect . |
| 23 | But the boxing power structure is white and it 's going to be a slow change . |
| 24 | The lightness of Courtney 's sentence is obvious when it is compared to other recent sentences . |
| 25 | The fatalism is pervasive because it is shared by two opposing camps — frowning European idealists and smiling national realists . |
| 26 | As a consequence , the eubacterial rooting previously obtained from ATPase evolution is inconsistent as it was based on phylogenetic trees in which these two paralogous families were mixed in single trees . |
| 27 | ‘ As I understand it , a cartel is illegal because it 's trying to impose a monopoly on the market . |
| 28 | It is good because it is written in friendly , ordinary language and where jargon creeps in , it is explained . |
| 29 | It is very difficult to avoid seeking out and using information that is confidential if it is known or suspected that the information will be a crucial aid to survival for your company in the future . |
| 30 | As I sit here typing this letter , the sky is black and it 's pouring with rain — real April showers . |