Example sentences of "[noun] it is [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In most psychiatric units it is now usually considered inappropriate to have one member of staff constantly accompany a patient at risk . |
| 3 | Primary teachers normally teach English as part of an integrated curriculum , whereas in secondary schools it is more usually taught in timetabled slots by subject specialists . |
| 4 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 5 | In line B it is more specifically said to be " from the beginning " , but that also raises a question : the beginning of what ? |
| 6 | In the USSR it is now officially recognized that the party should be organized more democratically , and attempts have been made at the level of primary organizations to involve the rank and file more in decision-making ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , p. 201 ) . |
| 7 | Like all his work of this period it is very deliberately painted , the matt colour delicately shaded . |
| 8 | being situated just off the King 's Road it is also ideally placed for an excursion to shops or restaurants . |
| 9 | True , it belongs to the same group of viruses , but within that group it is only distantly related . |
| 10 | My bill falls into two parts , one which deals with the need for a full franchise it is sometimes mistakenly believed that we already have a full franchise in this country , but whereas legislation was passed in the past in order to extend the franchise , in recent years we have let matters slip considerably on the methods that are used for registration and no longer can we claim to have that full franchise . |
| 11 | At any rate it is very well done here by Pierre Dervaux and excellent French singers . |
| 12 | At an older age it is perhaps better encapsulated by the following : |
| 13 | This package has been very successful in meeting the needs of those wishing to use macroeconomic models as an aid to their understanding of the economy , for example it is now widely used in teaching . |
| 14 | US companies , he said , generally use the AS/400 as a departmental machine , while in Europe it is more often employed as a central server in medium-sized firms . |
| 15 | US companies , he said , generally use the AS/400 as a departmental machine , while in Europe it is more often employed as a central server in medium-sized firms . |
| 16 | There is ample evidence that tied cottages have been used oppressively by farmers in the past in order , for example , to strangle incipient trade unionism in the countryside , bit except in a small minority of cases it is no longer used as an oppressive weapon of petty political domination : rather it is the carrot which will tempt the farm worker to accept a low wage . |
| 17 | PC Fishwick said : ‘ Of course it is too soon to make any judgement but we are keeping our fingers crossed that some of the crime prevention messages are getting through . ’ |
| 18 | Zande thus believe this power to be sex-linked and consider that it increases with age : children may be capable of bewitching , but the power is weakly developed in them ; in mature adults it is more strongly realized . |
| 19 | In Scotland , actual distribution or display must be shown to have occurred , whereas in England and Wales it is enough merely to establish ‘ intent ’ . |
| 20 | In fact it is now widely recognized that some consumption expenditure of this type , in so far as it combats malnutrition , should be considered as equivalent to investment . |
| 21 | At this stage it is so far extended as to receive a supply of sand from the original barchan even during the prevailing wind , X. Thus it will continue to grow both during the prevailing wind , X , and the strong wind , Y , with slip faces developed on the side away from the strong wind . |
| 22 | The Corporation would argue that attracting future private sector-led employment is a long term aim and that , given the nature of the task it is too soon to assess the success of its strategy . |