Example sentences of "[noun sg] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before responding to this objection against religion it is important first to acknowledge the insights it brings — insights often neglected in earlier centuries . |
| 2 | Being an equitable remedy it is discretionary and the plaintiff must have " clean hands " and have acted promptly in enforcing his rights . |
| 3 | Although identification of left or right hemisphere activity represents a fairly gross level of localisation it is sometimes possible to be more precise as to the area of brain that is active . |
| 4 | The formation of the Napier Debating Society has , unfortunately , progressed slowly ; however , with the changeover in Sabbatical Officers of the Napier Students Association it is hoped that the Society will be able to start a recruitment drive in Fresher 's Week of academic year 1993/94 . |
| 5 | I could understand its thinking it is a vampire but a woodpecker ? |
| 6 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 7 | The basis for all these conclusions seems to be that because there are bad comprehensive schools the system must be abandoned ( and if this is not the intention it is likely to be the secondary education for all , which led to the establishment of comprehensive schools in the first place , has , it seems , to be given up in favour of ‘ good ’ education for some and ‘ bad ’ for others , the ‘ good ’ now being variously identified with the rigorous , the vocational , and the wealth-producing . |
| 8 | … however worthy the original intention it is almost inevitable that one ends up with a pretty fair rag-bag and that a carefully drawn long title offers no real defence . |
| 9 | ‘ Bankrupt stock it is , shops ca n't afford to take delivery — it 's the recession , you see . ’ |
| 10 | In such circumstances , if the Bank wishes to sell the stock it is holding over a reasonable time period , it will often be unable to avoid reducing its price . |
| 11 | Although this amazing armour protects the soft body of the clam extremely well , the animal is not the killer it is so often made out to be . |
| 12 | For example , if any property has been lost or found in the rooms then by referring to the room history card it is possible to discover who was the occupant of the room at a certain date . |
| 13 | If it has , do you worry about what deal it is , as long as these three men are released , or do you say we should n't do deals with people like Saddam ? |
| 14 | 4.3 We would therefore submit that if anyone is getting a good deal it is most certainly not our members . |
| 15 | The Times commented : As a constitutional experiment it is finished . |
| 16 | If statistical tests had been performed on the results of the experiment it is likely , from Anderson and Barrios ( 1961 ) , that a primacy effect would have been obtained . |
| 17 | Give too much and it may bring about the very conditions it is capable of curing ; ‘ Through the like , disease is produced and through the application of the like it is cured ’ , said Hippocrates over 2000 years ago . |
| 18 | Before placing the planted lily into the pond it is best to saturate the growing medium using a watering can with a fine rose to settle the soil around the plant . |
| 19 | in the aquarium we are interested in killing as many free swimming disease organisms in as short a time as possible , whereas in the pond it is unicellular algae that is targeted ( the cause of green water ) . |
| 20 | Could you start off by telling me which pond it is we 're talking about ? |
| 21 | That was the interesting thing that said to Alistaire last night that a three column centimetres depending on which periodical it is or paper it 's in can do you far more good or damage than twenty at another . |
| 22 | For brevity it is worth using these little symbols which are easy to learn . |
| 23 | By establishing a partnership it is likely that the school must recognise its own role in servicing , supporting , and maintaining the progress of its partnership , in the same way that it would for any internal group . |
| 24 | The situation came close to manslaughter , and by its overt violence and the occupation of the assailant it is an exception . |
| 25 | At that bulk it is also easier to divide into little bags . |
| 26 | Whereas the line item approach bears no relation at all to the activities of the police force it is possible to identify various functions carried out by the police and thereby determine suitable programmes . |
| 27 | Consequently , by changing the R group attached to the ring it is possible to change the solid state properties of these radical dimers . |
| 28 | Where land is bought at auction it is essential that the purchaser or his solicitor undertakes the necessary searches and reads carefully the smallprint in the brochure . |
| 29 | In shunt-voltage feedback it is convenient to express the gain of the open-loop amplifier in terms of the gain between output signal voltage and input signal current . |
| 30 | Application of Kirchhoff 's current law at the input gives where Hence the closed-loop gain can be expressed as while the closed-loop input impedance is With shunt-inserted feedback it is easier to find the output impedance when the input is connected to a source of infinite internal impedance , that is , to a constant-current source is so that . |