Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [is] [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ) .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Sun Microsystems has spent the last year revamping its American resellers program and has de-authorised some 900 low value add locations for not making the kind of long-term commitment and investment it believes is necessary to a sound business model .
6 Fremont-based Media Vision has developed a video compression system which it claims is comparable to the MPEG or DVI standards , but at a tenth the price .
7 This will mean that recovery when it comes is likely to be long-drawn-out and possibly never properly fulfilled .
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