Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | As mentioned above , where a firm which wishes to retain its own identity has increased the number of its branch offices it is sometimes difficult to retain an acceptable degree of harmony between the component parts of the firm and the partners attached to each part . |
| 2 | If one investigates the format commonly used in dictionary definitions it is clear that there are some conventions that are followed . |
| 3 | Although there is no evidence that Horace Walpole ( who died on 2 March 1797 ) ever attended College meetings it is pleasant to think that he may have formed the undiscovered link between Lord Camden and the as yet unlocated Veterinary College . |
| 4 | But even in murder cases it is now far more favourable to the accused for him to plead instead diminished responsibility , and for most practical purposes this defence has replaced that of insanity in criminal law . |
| 5 | For the average club golfers it is not the right exercise because it emphasises the shoulders too much . |
| 6 | With the increasing sophistication and scale of warehouse buildings it is suggested that they should be looked at in depth at the earliest planning stage when they are able to exert their proper influence on construction and design . |
| 7 | In order to set the bonus targets it is necessary to establish the quantity of work to be done , the method of construction , and the calculation of the relevant man hours necessary to complete the task . |
| 8 | However , it is argued that for cost accounting purposes it is too complex to include more than one independent variable . |
| 9 | For research purposes it is best to leave thin sections uncovered , as they may then be subjected to a variety of treatments including staining , etching , cathodoluminescence and microprobe work . |
| 10 | In theft terms it is difficult to see that one of the rights of the customer has been adversely interfered with . |
| 11 | In developing study techniques it is difficult to produce anything approaching activity . |
| 12 | It is also emphasised that in applying accounting standards it is necessary to be guided by the spirit and the reasoning behind them , as set out in individual standards and in the ASB 's Statement of Principles for Financial Reporting . |
| 13 | But like all these sorts of research findings it is difficult to know whether the accountants became cautious as a result of their training or whether the cautious attitude developed in the family as children . |
| 14 | To retain any coherence in the research findings it is necessary to reconcile this conclusion with the fundamental similarity between working-class and middle-class women on the dimension of identification with the housewife role . |
| 15 | In e-mail systems it is possible to receive a number of related messages from different people on screen , to then go into a statistical package and do some calculations , and on the basis of this come to a decision which one communicates to a different set of people . |
| 16 | In the case of partnership premises it is desirable to ensure that the four partners chosen to go on the title are specifically declared to hold their interest ( freehold or leasehold ) on trust for the firm . |
| 17 | Cooling creates stress in tropical fish and in the Coral Seas it is so alien that coral fish will quickly die if chilled . |
| 18 | When the newspapers and television hold forth about football hooligans it is usually to members of groups like this that they are referring . |
| 19 | But I hope that you will think , as I do , that because this basic subject is omitted in ordinary teaching syllabuses it is all the more important that law students should pick up something about it on their own . |
| 20 | If you do have a scanner which performs grey-scaling by using dither patterns it is important to run tests to check which pattern is the most suitable for the particular picture , there is often a considerable difference in quality which is due to the scanner 's response to the original photography . |
| 21 | Against this background of significant changes in household formation patterns it is hardly surprising that there has been an increase in the proportion and number of older people living alone ( Figure 2.9 ) . |
| 22 | TO BE sure of getting value for money in rugby books it is usually good policy to lash out on a yearbook or an expensive work of reference . |
| 23 | In work organisations it is universally believed that cooperation is a Good Thing , and achieve greater productivity than lack of cooperation . |
| 24 | On mild , winter days it is tempting to throw in some pellets . |
| 25 | Given the 98 to 100 per cent support from dairy farmers it is looking for , that would mean it still bought virtually all the milk in its area while processing and selling much of it through its commercial company Scottish Pride . |
| 26 | NeXT , as ever , told Reuters that this is just one of a number of licensing deals it is discussing . |
| 27 | For instance , in several degree curricula it is possible to gain exemption from Stage One of the Chartered Accountant 's qualification provided that the curricula include the relevant courses specified by the Institute of Chartered Accountants . |
| 28 | For assessment purposes it is clearly important that independent abilities should not be grouped under the same target . |
| 29 | When dealing with a claim for freezer contents it is worthwhile considering the capacity of the freezer in relation to the size of the claim . |
| 30 | To satisfy the demands of their historicist ideologies it is necessary to promote Renaissance as a phenomenon , not a linguistic term whose field of reference is unstable and above all open . |