Example sentences of "it is [verb] [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 2 | Hong Kong 's special interest to the zoologist is that it is situated practically where two zoo-geographical regions meet , the Oriental , in which it actually lies , and the Palaearctic . |
| 3 | This Act embraces a vast number of persons holding public office of a specified sort ; it is amended regularly as new offices are created and persons appointed to them . |
| 4 | Most studies consider only social behaviour in the herd , or readily observed facts , such as that the horse is easily frightened , or that it will work better if it is rewarded rather than punished . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , due to the recent industrial dispute involving the road haulage industry , it is taking longer than usual for orders to reach our customers . |
| 6 | It is taking longer than expected . |
| 7 | It is argued here that economic autonomy is still a long way off for most British women . |
| 8 | It is accepted now that many of our nursery rhymes are based on factual people or occurrences . |
| 9 | It is estimated more than 2,000 people now sleep on London 's streets and another 50,000 in various forms of temporary accommodation . |
| 10 | It is modified continuously as external data is received and transformed into information . |
| 11 | It is found experimentally that practical materials " remember previous deformations to which they have been subjected … stress depends on … strains to which the material was subjected at all times up to and including t " ( Lockett 1973 ) . |
| 12 | Naturally , if tinnitus is troublesome , you will seek medical advice , but in only a few cases ( it is suggested less than five per cent ) is there a simple remedy where the cause of tinnitus is in the outer or middle ear . |
| 13 | In a speech in Donegal before the by-election in November 1980 , Garrett FitzGerald of Fine Gael said , ‘ Until and unless it is shown conclusively that this danger can be effectively-controlled , which appears not to be the case , we oppose exploration ’ . |