Example sentences of "it is a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning from a visit to Uganda , where he met with patients in the villages and with other agencies , Maurice Adams said , ‘ It is a beautiful country which is being devastated by a disease which can be stopped . ’ |
| 2 | Kate Bristow commented , ‘ It is a real privilege for ACET to be asked to work with such people as they look for ways to develop an effective strategy . ’ |
| 3 | A payment only qualifies under Gift Aid if it is a ‘ gift ’ . |
| 4 | But it is a pain that many families are having to live with as the number of those dying of AIDS increases . |
| 5 | Although we are often successful in securing accommodation , it is a problem which stretches our resources to the full and we are urgently raising money to buy emergency short term accommodation for people with HIV/AIDS . |
| 6 | It is a separate tragedy altogether that , in a country where there is no nation health service , anything up to three million dollars can be spent killing someone . |
| 7 | The government has at last acknowledged that ‘ disappearances ’ do take place and that it is a problem which needs addressing , and Amnesty International expects to be submitting cases for investigation by the Commission . |
| 8 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 9 | It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh , the deposit , little cell by cell , of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions . |
| 10 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 11 | It is a sunset on the Atlantic , after a prolonged storm ; but the storm is partially lulled , and the torn and streaming rain-clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the night . |
| 12 | Our fifth type must therefore be the traditionalist , for whom it is a pleasure to find the past living on in the present . |
| 13 | For if it is a Deceit , the whole Bible is Madness . |
| 14 | You forget that it is a picture as you look at it … |
| 15 | Besides which , there are some artists whom it is a pleasure to know even a little better from their letters . |
| 16 | It is a nice matter of judgement to decide how to treat the various personalities with justice . |
| 17 | It is a usual feature of such a comparison that there is a basic level of information which is common to most of the reviews , and it is the mark of a skilful critic to have worked in some personal assessment of works , or some individual response to the show as a whole . |
| 18 | Eduard Trier chose to illustrate this figure in Form and Space , in which he limits himself to two observations : it is a product of refined artificiality ( in comparison with the elemental force of Marino Marini 's sculpture ) , and the girl ( in comparison with a figure by Marcello Mascherini ) is ‘ more reserved , displays a leisurely elegance in her arrested dance step ’ . |
| 19 | It is a mystery . |
| 20 | When she goes to bed with Ahmed , it is a fiasco . |
| 21 | It is a quite Caribbean Britain that has made her : a Britain at the end of the world which it used to rule . |
| 22 | This is a book which takes for granted , and which has doubts about , the mingling of peoples , and it is a book which takes pride in its chosen people — Salim 's people and , in some measure , Naipaul 's . |
| 23 | It is a contender : a colleague of Ackroyd 's on The Times announced that it was a ‘ sure contender ’ for the Booker Prize of 1987 ( which it did n't receive ) . |
| 24 | It is a novel which communicates the notion that talented and untalented meet in that country of the mind where everyone copies and steals from everyone else , where everything is reproductive or reminiscent of everything else , where one thing leads to another and this person passes into that . |
| 25 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 26 | It is a war which has begun to embarrass the interveners . |
| 27 | Let no one ever be sincere with me — it is a failure of respect , and respect is a thing one can never get enough of . |
| 28 | She is indeed ready to die , and it is a difficulty that Justin may feel that he has to do the same . |
| 29 | And it is a trip in its own right , on the teller 's part . |
| 30 | It is a distinction which may in the end prove more suggestive than serviceable : the author who tells , and who can be accounted something of a ventriloquist , may well , for instance , be more than capable of carnival , and may even be every bit as plural in his works as his dialogic counterpart . |