Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 4.13 Management should continuously review the procedures for the delivery and/or collection of money to see if it is absolutely necessary and whether there are alternative methods available .
2 But experts say unless it is carefully controlled , the fish stocks and entire eco-system could be affected .
3 ( Note that here and elsewhere in the book , underlined stretches of talk mean that it is phonologically and/or grammatically marked as " Creole " . )
4 Contrary to some of the conclusions drawn from social scientific research suggesting that it is primarily home or family backgrounds that determines the level of educational performance , Edmonds proceeds to identify those characteristics of effective schools delivering marked improvements in children 's educational achievements .
5 Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ?
6 Later metabolic studies of methotrexate revealed that it is virtually without effect in the rabbit because of a metabolic peculiarity .
7 But even in democratic societies knowledge of the past changes as historical scholarship develops and it is often found that the official record of the time under study contains errors or even deliberate falsification .
8 It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all .
9 Koons says that it is exactly this childlike aspect that makes her vulnerable to the tacky mandarins of the porn industry , whom Koons loathes , despite the mountain of mad flesh in Made in Heaven .
10 What do you do at the end of the winter time and er spring arrives and it 's too warm for the electric blanket .
11 ( The third effect should strictly speaking be regarded as a substitute for the first since it assumes a zero , or at least a very low , interest elasticity of the demand for money whereas the Keynes effect assumes that it is reasonably powerful . )
12 The authors conclude that it is more likely that many other factors should also be included in the analysis such as motivation , nicotine dependence , personality type , self-efficacy , therapeutic support , etc , which act together in a complex way and would substantially increase the explained variance of smoking cessation .
13 The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down .
14 Aunt Bella says that it 's more economical to buy like that , but I know it 's because she 's afraid .
15 Firms are less likely to set profit-maximising prices for their products when faced with rising raw material prices and labour costs as it is more difficult for them to estimate their expected revenues and costs .
16 Pointing out difficulties is a very common behaviour but is one of the riskier ones because research shows that it is far from certain how people will take it .
17 We are never going to win the World Cup with football played as it is today .
18 In response to a letter from the Law Society , the Revenue states that it is not possible to set hard and fast rules to determine whether a payment made to an employee who intends to seek further employment will be treated as made in connection with retirement .
19 ‘ It was n't an easy task and shows members of the public it is not just fires the fire brigade attends and it is not just cats and dogs that vets deal with . ’
20 But later the Irish pound recovered and it is now comfortably within its level in the ERM , Europe 's currency club .
21 ‘ This led to a tightening up of the law and Knowsley 's environmental health and trading standards officers will continue to monitor the sale of food in the borough to ensure that it is as safe as the public rightly expects it to be . ’
22 At 32 , the actor turned producer-director has proved that he has the clout to raise money for stage and screen and the artistic talent to ensure that it 's well spent .
23 And if it is n't honey , the absence of that taste will cause Pooh to believe that it is n't honey .
24 Monetarists argue that it is relatively inelastic and stable , as in Figure 16.8(b) .
25 where the bar over the V term means that it is exogenously determined : i.e. determined independently of M.
26 The fact that the specialist literature ( for example , IRS , 1986a ) continues to make repeated reference to the particular practices of a rather limited number of organizations implies that it is not , as yet , a particularly common one .
27 Drawing on an analysis of American inter-organizational relations Lindblom argues that it is simply not possible for the central state to impose its wishes on the local state .
28 While ACORN 's most obvious application is in market analysis , advertising and direct marketing , CACI argues that it is equally relevant to the sales manager for setting equitable targets for different sales territories .
29 Marian heard a quick intake of breath from Allen , the sound a horse makes when it is about to bolt .
30 The fact that disruptive behaviour often leads to considerable stress , anxiety and absenteeism suggests that it is all the more important that schools tackle the issue with more clarity and imagination .
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