Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [is] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it can set its parameters to what it thinks is suitable then . |
| 2 | Reproduction is excellent and the value for money it offers is phenomenal . |
| 3 | In the case of the pattern in Figure 1 , the first colour it encounters is black , so this becomes colour 1 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not that perspective — which denotes visual orderliness — is the right word , since the decisive characteristic of the 100-mile city is that whatever order it has is invisible . |
| 6 | An Information memorandum should include a form of wording emphasising that it is not a prospectus , that the information it contains is confidential and that neither we nor the directors of the company concerned accept responsibility for it . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | However , the reaction it causes is explosive and powerful , but also dangerous . |
| 9 | He told delegates : ‘ The Company 's relationship with the trade unions with which it negotiates is healthy and constructive . |
| 10 | The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point . |
| 11 | Why and how it happens is unknown . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sparc wannabe , California start-up Integrix Inc , has a graphics accelerator board , the SGX 120 , which it says is identical in resolution to Sun Microsystems Inc 's 1280 x 1024 resolution GX+ board , but only requires one Sbus slot : it 's priced at $2,750 with availability later this month . |
| 14 | Such power as it possesses is qualitative rather than quantitative . |
| 15 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 16 | The former exists throughout the process of perception ; the latter , however , has no existence before being conceived by the mind , and exists only as a conclusion which arises as a result of , after , the mental operation of inferring that the state of affairs it describes is true . |
| 17 | An imaginary example can be so described that I am willing to say that the action it recounts is good . |
| 18 | The contrast between this text and the text on which it comments is instructive . |
| 19 | The low cost strategy it employs is possible only with high volume production plants and low unit research and development costs . |
| 20 | What it transpires is local parties who are interested enough get what 's |
| 21 | what it reflects is thin , bolt-upright , |
| 22 | The initials stand for Tax Exempt Special Savings Account , but according to a recent survey not everyone it seems is aware of a Tessa 's principal attraction — its tax free label . |
| 23 | But narrative on the scale which it demands is impossible in a book like this . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Er erm we think the nine thousand seven hundred dwellings based on one hundred percent migration for the Greater York area is the appropriate strategic approach erm for the Greater York area , the County Council does not see the need for any policy intervention in terms of migration , in respect of Greater York in the way it feels is necessary in respect of er of four other districts . |
| 26 | Richard Ryder , Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Food , Fisheries and Agriculture Shopping in a place called a health food shop does n't mean you can assume everything it sells is safe or healthy . |
| 27 | Moore would surely grant that there is an indefinability of the word which follows from the fact that what it labels is indefinable , while those who treat it as a statement about a word see it as turning upon what the word is supposed to stand for . |
| 28 | So to conclude these opening remarks , the County Council believes the level of employment land provision it proposes is necessary to meet the existing and projected employment needs |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |