Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging … |
| 2 | Roger Thetford says it 's an extension of orinteering and it 's a real challenge |
| 3 | Evaluation of the editorial " Bradshaw shift " is not simply a matter of deciding whether it is right or wrong . |
| 4 | Perhaps the sentence ‘ Is it raining ? ’ expresses the state of wondering whether it is raining , and the sentence ‘ Shut the window , please ’ expresses the state of wishing the hearer to shut the window . |
| 5 | Small points again , like accuracy of feeding when it is needed , become natural to them because they are constantly working at it . |
| 6 | The other key aspects of teaching that it is useful to record are the level of demand that is placed on the pupil(s) at each stage and the amount of guidance that the teacher provides . |
| 7 | There are such obvious advantages in having access through video to examples of teaching that it is easy to forget that there can also be problems . |
| 8 | A common theme in the reaction against it has been a demand for the ‘ return to justice ’ : retributive justice is seen as having the virtue of acknowledging that it is punishing ‘ responsible ’ people , which in turn requires the safeguards of individual rights and public accountability of the ‘ due process of law ’ , and the limitations on intervention in people 's lives provided by the principle of retributive proportionality . |
| 9 | The law used to look with disfavor on the statute of limitations , but I have been in the habit of saying that it is one of the most sacred and indubitable principles that we have … |
| 10 | This house , two children , a failed marriage , and a job which I 'm frightened of losing because it 's the only thing I 've made a success of . " |
| 11 | Chucking other people 's money about in courageous fashion is just what architects are always being accused of doing and it is the average member who bears the brunt of such criticism . |
| 12 | my holiday was later as usual and longer so , you know and there was a couple of other things not related to this which I 'd thought of doing and it 's sort of they evaporated , but erm , we did spend time talking to Ingy earlier in the year , you know , about publicity and I gave her lists of well such as things obvious things like Playback and Newsbeat |
| 13 | ‘ I am in favour of televising because it is going down well with my constituents … the world is paying attention ’ , said Mr David Nicholson , MP for Taunton . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , at the moment there are no known examples of the latter being achieved , and there is no way of knowing whether it is achievable . |
| 15 | For the next couple of weeks while I get to know how the station works I shall be like your shadow , Fran , but you 'll have the comfort of knowing that it 's all in the line of business . ’ |
| 16 | And I 've no way of knowing if it 's normal to worry this much about food and weigh yourself this many times a day . |
| 17 | For in the future , under different conditions , there is always the possibility of showing that it 's wrong . |
| 18 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 19 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 20 | This is regarded by the present government , along with its proposals for a national curriculum , as a means of enhancing the quality of education , and making schools more accountable to parents in a system of schooling that it is intended will be more consumer oriented . |
| 21 | We are in danger of forgetting that it is God we are talking about : the God who created us , the God who sustains us and has sovereign rights over us . |
| 22 | The risk is minimal , but such is the attraction of this form of carving that it is easy to get carried away , and its effectiveness does make eye and respiratory protection essential . |