Example sentences of "it is [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is DTI 's intention and remit to continue promoting awareness of Open Systems in the second stage of the programme , and the OSTT Programme is keen to work closely with industry bodies and organisations in order to ensure that information and guidance is widely distributed to their clients when planning or implementing Open Systems strategies . |
| 2 | Folk in Up Hatherley , Gloucestershire , have the same problem uffolding the dignity of the district but it is uffill work . |
| 3 | When we come across something new we try to recognise it whether it is a.person or a disease or an inflection in a chart . |
| 4 | Nokia Oy , Helsinki says that it is increase its capital base with an international placing of about $100m of new preference shares ; no details yet . |
| 5 | It is dusk when we arrive . |
| 6 | But as soon as it is dusk , the soil becomes alive with toads frantically digging their way to the surface . |
| 7 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 8 | It is dusk on a small cay in the Bahamas . |
| 9 | It 's when they start getting round to looking at our facility agreements , start looking at how we 're organizing , the councillors , even if it 's the Labour Council as it is Manchester , will soon cotton on to the , in the , soon cotton to their , their , their potential power in terms of threatening our ability to organize and UNISON wo n't actually be that far behind persuading them to do , to do that because they want to see the G M B getting smashed in local authorities up and down the country which means as far as I can see , we need some resources coming in to assist in our branches with local authority membership pretty damn quick , because otherwise we , come July the first , we 're gon na find we 'll be up against it . |
| 10 | Moreover , research on the transmission of the virus in the USA suggests that it is drug injectors who are ‘ the main source for any future heterosexual epidemic ’ ( Moss 1987 , p.389 ) . |
| 11 | From a frightening ratio of expenditure to fares revenue of four to one , the ratio has improved to better than two and a half to one and it is stili improving . |
| 12 | It is Weber 's emphasis on the state 's monopoly of the legitimate use of violence , that , it seems to me , gives overtones of coercion which encourage a narrow approach to the state in contemporary Japan . |
| 13 | You 're right , of course — it is Adam . |
| 14 | I 'm sure it is Rosie . |
| 15 | It is telephone calls on Report and letters in Committee . |
| 16 | As it is Mark took some spectacular falls . |
| 17 | It is Mark , I mean I know it is myself . |
| 18 | For the Wallabies it is case of ‘ two down and four to go ’ — three tests against New Zealand and one against South Africa . |
| 19 | If one person 's on duty , you would a situation where really that was a bit of risk quite often , and er , it 's not an acceptable thing but er , I totally agree we need to agree very carefully if one 's wise to whether the initial staffing is adequate or whether it is case a of people not having |
| 20 | It is admitted that there was er such a letter and er on this occasion er Miss evidence is that having heard that the landlords consent for the assignment still had n't been obtained , asked Mr again whether it was possible in view of that , er to withdraw from the contract and er it is case that again Mr repeated the advice he 'd given to Mr two days earlier and told her that it was not possible and that again is denied . |
| 21 | It is distance that makes friendship between classes almost impossible , and therefore , residence among the poor is suggested as a simple way in which Oxford men may serve their generation . |
| 22 | It is relief , I think , and we must marry soon , I can not bear to wait , and you wo n't mind living in a little house in Vetch Street when you are used to this , will you ? ’ |
| 23 | It is trial and error and depends a lot on the type of horse you are riding . |
| 24 | It is guilt , not age or misunderstanding , that withers cheeks and drives friends and lovers apart . |
| 25 | But it is stars of the theatrical and cinematic world — or certainly the matinee idols of that world — who still regard the term with such anxiety . |
| 26 | Not so a director , who is a separate legal entity from the company , even if it is 100% owned by him . |
| 27 | It is used to generate heat in radiant and convector appliances ( where it is 100% efficient ) , and can provide whole-house heating using storage radiators ( only 95% efficient due to storage losses ) . |
| 28 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 29 | It is literature within the last three centuries , then , that provides the main choices for a reader . |
| 30 | But if the work is oral history , it is literature too — a disclosure of predicament and bereavement . |