Example sentences of "it is [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nevertheless it is fitting that we should add our tribute to the many that have been made throughout the country . |
| 32 | It is fitting that a hero so maladroit should be a Malaprop as well . |
| 33 | ‘ It is fitting that these important landscape features should be given priority and where possible repaired or rebuilt , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 34 | Thus the essence of the charge is not determined by the nature of the property over which it is created but rather by the degree of freedom accorded to the company to deal with this property in the normal course of business . |
| 35 | All that has changed is the nature and volume of data , and the way it is created and accessed . |
| 36 | The clear lesson here is that the IT archive , whatever form it should take , is not only the carrier of information which the future historian would want to use , but that the very form , structure and dynamic of that archive as it is created and used will make a vital contribution to an understanding of the social relationships , the culture and the power structures of the late twentieth century . |
| 37 | It is disputed whether these onion domes were a development indigenous to the area or whether the idea came from further east , but the former seems more likely on the weight of evidence ; they were being built by the mid-twelfth century here and were designed in a great variety of shapes and in large numbers . . |
| 38 | Everyone agrees that this means both sides must be heard , but it is disputed whether it also means that both sides must have equal time even though the arguments of one side are more complex or require more witnesses than the other . |
| 39 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 40 | Secondly , a wage-change variable is included in addition to a price variable since it is hypothesised that workers may seek to unionise not only to defend existing standards of living but also to attempt to improve upon them . |
| 41 | It is hypothesised that most existing studies of adoption are not sufficiently long term to , demonstrate these effects . |
| 42 | It is hypothesised that many children do not assimilate the link between the pre-requisite experiences and the generalisation which follows , as for example in the finding of the area of a rectangle by counting squares and the presentation of a formula which generalises the results . |
| 43 | It is hypothesised that words processed at deeper levels will be better recognised than those processed to only a shallow level and that reaction times will be longer at deeper levels of processing . |
| 44 | ‘ Responsibility is accepted in the preparation of this report for the skill and diligence reasonably to be expected of a competent surveyor and valuer but the information it contains is for the confidential information only of the clients for whom it is prepared and of any building society , bank or other lender to whom written application for a mortgage advance has been made or will be made within 28 days after the date of this report . |
| 45 | That any Petitioner whose Petition stands referred to the Select Committee shall , subject to the Rules and Orders of the House and to the Prayer of his Petition , be entitled to be heard by himself , his Counsel or Agents upon his Petition provided that it is prepared and signed in conformity with the Rules and Orders of the House , and the Member in charge of the Bill shall be entitled to be heard by his Counsel or Agents in favour of the Bill against that Petition . |
| 46 | It is knowing that you are capable enough which is the difficult thing . |
| 47 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 48 | The structure of the Pacific — its enormous , landless centre , its contorted and congested peripheries — is due entirely to the plates of which it is constructed and the manner in which they have moved in relation to each other . |
| 49 | Later , in a treatise written in the eighteenth century , Mémoire sur la manière de cultiver la vigne et de faire le vin en Champagne ( written , it is believed , by Jean Godinot c. 1718 ) , it is stated that the Champenois had begun to study how to produce a ‘ grey … almost white wine ’ some fifty years before , that is to say approximately 1668 . |
| 50 | But in these papers it is stated that Tyndale headed his written defence , ‘ Faith alone justifies before God ’ , and that among the questions debated were worship of saints , the Sacraments and the authority of the Pope . |
| 51 | For example in the February issue of The Art Newspaper ( No.25 pp.1 and 2 ) , in the article entitled ‘ Yugoslavia covered-up over the Sevso treasure ’ , it is stated that ‘ Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title … |
| 52 | When for once it is stated that Sir Raynold , the chaplain of Ridlington , Norfolk , owned a house and three acres , the reason must have been some difficulty over determining the value , which in this case is omitted . |
| 53 | At paragraph 1497 , it is stated that in larceny the owner of the thing stolen has no intention to part with his property therein to the person taking it , although he may intend to part with the possession ; in false pretences the owner does intend to part with his property in the money or chattel , but it is obtained from him by fraud . |
| 54 | The mountain before them was the birthplace of mankind ; and he referred the ladies , while excusing himself with an ingratiating laugh for mentioning an indelicate subject , to the authority of Our Saviour 's words to Nicodemus , where it is stated that a man can not enter a second time into his mother 's womb and be born once more . |
| 55 | In the discussions with the monks over the qualities of Benedict as Bishop it is stated that they carefully discussed the matter with each other and also with the Archbishop at the Prior 's lodgings and also at Halling . |
| 56 | From one of these , situated within half a mile of the proposed Chirbury Station , it is stated that 10,000 tons are annually raised for local requirements , and that easy and cheap means of transit , such has the railway would supply , are only required to bring it into extensive use . |
| 57 | It is stated that the moneys have to be additional to any funding by a member country which qualifies for assistance — hence the word ’ additionality ’ , which is associated with funding . |
| 58 | Moreover , in the 1986 Green Paper it is stated that ‘ The main task of central government is to establish national policies and priorities for defence , foreign affairs and the economy as well as for public services — such as education — which are provided locally , but where there is a national interest in standards . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ … In recent literature it is stated that the diet of Haas ( Banana-diet ) and Fanconi ( fruit and begetables ) gives the best results in the treatment of patients suffering from coeliac disease . |
| 60 | 5.3 Electricity gas and other services consumed To pay to the suppliers and to indemnify the Landlord against all charges for electricity gas and other services consumed or used at or in relation to the Premises ( including meter rents ) In a footnote to the precedent it is stated that this clause is possibly superfluous in the case of a separate building as the tenant would make arrangements for a separate supply to be provided to the premises , but there is no objection to its inclusion . |