Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It involves being alert to particular developments in the situation for which campaigning action is required . |
| 2 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 3 | They are free to be energetic and enterprising ; they are equally free to be lethargic and dilatory ; the self-respect of the voluntary group depends on the fact that any success it has is due to its own efforts . |
| 4 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 5 | So it has been subject to recent rigorous scrutiny by a series of government reports : the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , the House of Commons Social Services Committee Report ( 1985 ) and the Griffiths Report ( 1986 ) which resulted in the 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 6 | I mean , wha what I would like to go on and say is , that er , which the change of administration it has been necessary to er , adopt a different way of , of developing the budget , and I think you 're quite right to erm , pay credit to the effort of the er , budget review er , sub-committee . |
| 7 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 8 | It has been good to me and I 'm very grateful for everything it 's brought us . |
| 9 | At times it has been acrimonious to an extreme and very public . |
| 10 | But the company which makes it has been close to bankruptcy . |
| 11 | It has been central to the nouveau roman 's poetics to establish a literary-historical metanarrative as a legitimizing strategy . |
| 12 | Planted up with sun-loving , drought-tolerant plants such as sedum and houseleek , here it has been used to effect when laid on the gravelly shore of a small pond . |
| 13 | By varying the combinations and proportions or the ingredients , and by mixing in other additives , it has been possible to ‘ tune ’ the physical properties of the various alloys to suit the purpose for which they are intended . |
| 14 | Try to establish the background of any dog , however , because if it has been aggressive to children , for example it may not be suitable for your circumstances . |
| 15 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 16 | But it has been deleterious to good decision-making on more than one occasion . |
| 17 | Since the time of Freud , it has been acceptable to many theorists that the way in which we behave may be powerfully influenced by mental processes to which we have no conscious access . |
| 18 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 19 | It has been open to the public since 1787 thanks to the efforts of Count Kinský , although its collections have not been added to since 1721 . |
| 20 | It has been open to the public for some 50 years . |
| 21 | It has been open to abuse , and indeed has been abused in the past by the Sheffield Mafia , which continues to exercise a covert control over British climbing media and administration out of all proportion to its collective record or ongoing contribution . |
| 22 | It has been fundamental to our own work here . |
| 23 | It has been fundamental to western consciousness . |
| 24 | Once an agreement has been registered in the register of restrictive agreements ( which is open to public inspection ) , the Director General may refer it to the Restrictive Practices Court for a decision on whether the restrictions it contains are contrary to the public interest . |
| 25 | Similarly , Heclo and Wildavsky 's classic study of the relationship between the Treasury and spending ministries in Britain highlights that the Treasury 's ability to secure spending decisions that it wants is contingent to a large degree upon the strategies employed in bargaining with spending ministries ( and vice versa ) . |
| 26 | As it is now , HP claims 150 tpsA in a host-based configuration , peaking at at 303.1 tpsA , $5,913 per tpsA , reportedly a new industry price/performance record for single-processor systems , a factor it says is important to the single-stream and batch-oriented applications common in most data centres . |
| 27 | The issues it raises are likely to be addressed in evidence and also in reports provided to the court by the guardian ad litem and others . |
| 28 | The story it tells is close to the historical details already described , but there is an overlay of romanticism which brings the dry facts to life . |
| 29 | Research and development costs £20,000 : these are sunk costs and it follows are irrelevant to the decision . |
| 30 | It means being open to new information even when it does not seem immediately relevant . |