Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a corporate public authority is unable to sue for libel it is , however , by no means without remedy . |
| 2 | So if you are pressed for time it is better during your first year in a language area to give more time to direct contact with people than to spend hours at your desk typing . |
| 3 | As so many things will be happening throughout Floriade it is impossible to give you more than a taste of the events to come . |
| 4 | Once a replicator has come into existence it is capable of generating an indefinitely large set of copies of itself . |
| 5 | If we carefully analyse the frequencies contained within speech it is possible to devise a system of rules that allows us to create any given sound from its basic frequencies . |
| 6 | Lastly , In the absence of any injuries , suspensions , players returning from injury it is a fair guess on the part of the Ceefax people that the team will be unchanged . |
| 7 | Not just in harsh action ; increased concern about children is almost always part of a larger concern about people in general , but when horrible things are happening to people it is not unusual to focus on children and try special pleading on their behalf . |
| 8 | Chevron surge : BP declined to comment on speculation it is buying Chevron shares , which analysts said were continuing a recent surge following rumours the oil company may restructure . |
| 9 | If there is any possibility of a period of supervised practice before returning to work it is worth taking , in addition to any period of standard reorientation . |
| 10 | Rather than concentrate on restrictions it is much easier , at least initially , to consider the positive aspect of healthy eating . |
| 11 | And whenever experience is pursued without hindrance it is called philosophy . |
| 12 | From watching raindrops , bubbles and insects walking on ponds it is obvious that water and other liquids have a surface tension . |
| 13 | Normally , one would assume that the particle will move on a straight line away from A. However , according to the sum over histories , it can move on any path that starts at A. It is like what happens when you place a drop of ink on a piece of blotting paper . |
| 14 | When the phoneme occurs between vowels it is sometimes pronounced as a ‘ tap ’ ( the tongue blade strikes the alveolar ridge sharply , producing a very brief voiced plosive : the phonetic symbol is ; this is very common in American English , and is also found in a number of accents in England : think of a typical American pronunciation of ‘ getting better ’ [ ] . |
| 15 | So in writing about life it is not difficult to have things happen . |
| 16 | While it may be frowned on by purists , it is a practical way round the problem of cutting on dialogue , and if it is done with sensitivity it is not too obtrusive . |
| 17 | He says in effect it is a new machine — the parts are the latest available , and the original machine they were going to buy is now obsolete . |
| 18 | If the program is written in BASIC it is a comparatively easy matter to insert an instruction to hold print on the screen until it has been read by the children . |
| 19 | These events hamper the breakdown and issue of fresh and combat rations to the Force , and the Bath Unit is prepared in case it is necessary to deal with decontamination . |
| 20 | As is explained later in the book , despite the high-sounding words with which the Bill was presented to Parliament it is a complete sham . |
| 21 | c Applied to timber it is meant to keep fungi away by killing spores , but it remains active for many years and is a health hazard not only for people in their homes , but also for the workers who make it . |
| 22 | If the sixth-century Avitus was related to Sidonius it is interesting that Gregory should imply that the family faded out after Arcadius 's plot ; Avitus was , after all , a friend of Gregory . |
| 23 | In fact , according to Brown it is virtually impossible to teach a language ; what one can hope to do is to provide a situation where the complex variables which contribute are maximised . |
| 24 | According to Eurotunnel it is £7bn ; the contractors put it at £7.5bn . |
| 25 | According to Taylor it is the working-class element of the crowd , and not football 's new , middle-class supporters , who have the most developed knowledge of , and commitment to , the club ( i.e. they possess a true ‘ soccer consciousness ’ ) . |
| 26 | According to ecologists it is impossible to predict the long-term impact of tapping into the area 's subterranean reserve , but ratification of the water district plan could result in the drying up of the natural springs in the Death Valley National Monument in California , destroy verdant valleys throughout the West and kill rare fish species such as the Moapa dace , which has survived since the ice age . |
| 27 | In view of the fact that Modernists are still being blamed for the destruction of civilisation , this seems like a good question , but according to DOCOMOMO it is not . |
| 28 | As a Muslim woman from Jhelum explained to me , in Islam a man can marry four times but according to Islam it is his duty to look after each of his wives and treat them honourably . |
| 29 | According to Peterlin it is due to the increased number of taut tie chains , whereas Ward proposes that crystalline bridges are formed , the effect of which is assessed by Takayanagi-type models or , again , by a fibre-composite model . |
| 30 | Moreover when he does refer to ideology it is not to develop the concept or incorporate it into his analysis of capitalism but to refer back to the tyranny of ideas and the emptiness of idealism ( e.g. in the Grundrisse , Marx 1973 : 164 ) . |