Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] it is " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Once a replicator has come into existence it is capable of generating an indefinitely large set of copies of itself .
3 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 .
4 And whenever experience is pursued without hindrance it is called philosophy .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Though distinction has been made on morphology it is also useful from the veterinary standpoint , for it separates the single harmful species , Oslerus osleri , living in the upper air passages , from the relatively harmless species which are retained in the genus Filaroides , and which live in the lung parenchyma .
12 Where conditions are incorporated by reference it is also prudent and , according to some authorities , necessary , to offer to the party whom it is sought to bind by them a reasonable opportunity for inspection ( see Parker v South Eastern Railway , above ) .
13 When used with multimedia it is adapted to ‘ hypermedia ’ .
14 Although it was a great coup for the KGB , once the pair got to Moscow it is hard to see what they could have told the Russians that was not already known or made any great difference to East-West relations .
15 Where land is bought at auction it is essential that the purchaser or his solicitor undertakes the necessary searches and reads carefully the smallprint in the brochure .
16 Well , since it was n't supplied by Microsoft it is n't a DOS command , but that 's the only real difference .
17 Should , for any reason , a sheet become damaged in service it is simple to replace a Rockwell sheet by unscrewing the damaged sheet and replacing it with a new one .
18 The new developments in information skills are still primarily research-led and because of the slowness of dissemination and take-up of work based on research it is not clear what the impact will be of this work on library practice .
19 But it can also be a foreign world to us , and to those whose faces are set against God it is a closed world .
20 Where this is provided by employers it is important for the costs to be properly recognised and funded .
21 As this reaction is not shared by alkanes it is useful for separating mixtures of alkanes and alkenes .
22 If the price paid for the business has been calculated on turnover it is important to the purchaser that he benefits from all existing contracts .
23 In the passage just cited for example it is striking that Cixous includes the Hegelian dialectic in the forms of political oppression which she describes .
24 If the rejuvenated stream was characterised by meanders it is likely that the meanders will be incised deeply during rejuvenation .
25 On every occasion when a loose ferret is worked for rabbits it is best if it is muzzled .
26 To change the amount of data passed between sub-programs it is necessary only to modify some code in the sub-program bodies , not the sub-program specifications , and to modify the declaration of the record itself .
27 While these examples are not meant as proof it is still necessary to describe the data from which they are drawn .
28 When looking at the factors associated with abuse it is , however , important to differentiate ‘ what we know ’ about physical abuse and neglect from sexual abuse .
29 It would be easy to conclude from this research that fat can actually cause heart disease but with so many other factors to be taken into consideration it is impossible to make such a simple statement .
30 Heroin ( smack , horse , H , Chinese — when combined with cocaine it is called a snowball ) .
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