Example sentences of "[that] it is a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ring up the amount , as for a cash purchase , but press the appropriate button to record that it is a cheque transaction . |
| 2 | The simplest answer to the question about what causes the sleep/wake rhythm to arise is that it is a reflection of the rhythmic world in which the newborn child has been placed and to which it begins to respond . |
| 3 | Many have scoffed at justification by faith , believing that it is a fiction only , a make-believe doctrine that has no reality in fact . |
| 4 | Matthew Pinsent , the president , says that it is a home from home and you can see how everyone is so relaxed . |
| 5 | He says that it is a mixture of rice , chicken and saffron , to give it a golden colour . |
| 6 | A tag is simply a marker of the grammatical category ( e.g. NN may indicate that a word is a common noun , PN that it is a pronoun ) . |
| 7 | The fact that it is a salamander can be experimentally demonstrated by feeding it with thyroid extract . |
| 8 | The real problem , however , is that it is a race against time . |
| 9 | So you , you can see that it is a concern |
| 10 | I 'm just going to rely on my players behaving themselves and trust that the referee interprets the rules with the realisation that it is a competition . ’ |
| 11 | It matters only that it is a tribute well deserved and well located . |
| 12 | I advise my hon. Friend to tell his constituent that his experience is not unusual and that it is a tribute to the service that is available from the national health service . |
| 13 | Those who have seen it — it will not be heard until a concert in Salzburg in December — agree that it is a hybrid between Mozart 's incomplete score and Mr Saegusa 's style , based on principles of Japanese music . |
| 14 | In one evocative passage , during a discussion of animism and the development of automata , he refers to a six-year-old girl showing her doll how a computer works and explaining that it is a friend . |
| 15 | Everyone will agree that fear is a powerful emotion , but few people realize that it is a friend and not an enemy . |
| 16 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 17 | It may be that it is a price which none of us will pay . |
| 18 | ‘ In fact , I think a decision had been reached that it is a play about women entering a beauty contest not a play about women getting undressed . ’ |
| 19 | The decision to go modern reflects York-based Forrest 's view that it is a play for contemporary audiences . |
| 20 | Given that the chasm referred to in the previous paragraph is now unbridgeable is there a more modest general principle that it is a tort intentionally to inflict economic harm on another by use of ‘ unlawful means ? ’ |
| 21 | The answer is that this third human state has a special feature that distinguishes it from the other two ( the inner and the outer states ) in that it is a zone for cultural experience or creative playing . |
| 22 | It is therefore particularly fitting that it is a charity associated with the teaching profession hat takes some of the books left over at the end of the sale to ‘ sent to countries in dire need ’ , as Lewis Romanis , former Headmaster of Boroughmuir School , put it in his gracious thank-you letter . |
| 23 | According to teletext , he is set to move for 2.7 million , text also says that it is a boardroom decision to sell him , he is currently in talks with Kenny daglesh . |
| 24 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
| 25 | Where proceedings are pending in a county court , the county court or a judge of the High Court may order them to be transferred to the High Court or another county court provided that it is a court having bankruptcy jurisdiction ( r 7.11(2)-(4) ) . |
| 26 | The government has at last acknowledged that ‘ disappearances ’ do take place and that it is a problem which needs addressing , and Amnesty International expects to be submitting cases for investigation by the Commission . |
| 27 | Note that it is a problem for the doctor first and foremost . |
| 28 | I think that it is a problem that youngsters , in many respects , do n't have much opportunity to actually influence their work . |
| 29 | Descartes says that ‘ the nature of matter or of body … does not consist in its being hard , or heavy , or coloured … but solely in the fact that it is a substance extended in length , breadth , and depth . ’ |
| 30 | although through speculating about the role of the unobservable ‘ anticipated reactions ’ of one actor to another or considering the values and interests which failed to emerge in the policy making process , it may entertain the possibility of hidden power processes its main weakness may be that it is a description rather than an analysis of power relationships . |