Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] it is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers . |
| 2 | However , reality intrudes on such constructions , as indicated by the gradual widening of the category ‘ inner city ’ to refer also to ‘ outer estates ’ and then to whole cities , like Bradford ; in some cases it is even used as a code for whole regions of deprivation in conjunction with that other metaphor , the North-South divide . |
| 3 | You will probably be surprised at what a different experience it is actually speaking the words rather than running through them in your head . |
| 4 | In some organizations it is still seen as the junior partner to sales , in others it has an equal status , in yet others it has a superior status . |
| 5 | In some countries it is still used as a dairy cow , but in Britain it is definitely a beef breed with the advantage of being able to convert grass into meat with great efficiency . |
| 6 | This is usually called an occupational or company pension if the employer is private ; and in the public sector it is often known as superannuation . |
| 7 | Certainly in certain professions such as teaching , nursing or social work it is generally considered that a desire to serve the public is of paramount importance . |
| 8 | for approximate computational purposes it is normally assumed in the western world that a full working year is no more than 200 man-days . |
| 9 | If the hon. Gentleman would listen rather than talk , he would learn that the price formula for gas has also been revised : where it was minus 2 on the controllable costs it is now going to minus 5 — another tough target . |
| 10 | The reliability approach can be made more elaborate ; in some ways it is closely related to the causal approach considered next , because we are clearly owed an account of what reliability is , and a causal answer is tempting ( see , e.g. , Goldman , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | In this area it is entirely focused on the specific question of improving police relations with Catholics , rather than community relations , although the latter is not absent altogether . |
| 12 | The South therefore includes countries like Saudi Arabia with about 10m people and a GNP per capita of $12,230 per annum ; however , most of its income is derived from oil exports and investment income , and in economic and social terms it is still regarded as an underdeveloped country . |
| 13 | Simon complains of ‘ the unsuitable blue chosen by Mr Serota ’ for the Tate 's walls and adds : ‘ If there is some deep strategy for this marginalisation of the British collection it is certainly making an impact , for there are fewer pictures on view than ever before . ’ |
| 14 | Under this consideration it is usually accompanied by fantasy and masturbation , sometimes by spontaneous ejaculation . |
| 15 | For this reason it is often called a back e.m.f . |
| 16 | For example , hearing impairments provide a common aetiology for linguistic difficulties among deaf children and for this reason it is usually assumed that deaf children will respond to therapy in similar ways . |
| 17 | If the first derivative of the property-temperature curve is measured , a change in the vicinity of T g is found ; for this reason it is sometimes called a second-order transition . |
| 18 | For this reason it is sometimes called the delocalisation enthalpy , resonance energy or stabilisation energy . |
| 19 | Talabheim lies in the centre of the Great Forest and for this reason it is sometimes known as the Eye of the Forest , where , like the eye of a cyclone , all is calm amidst the danger all around . |
| 20 | The actor is no different , although for some reason it is often thought that you are somehow ready to act , magically , the moment you enter a stage door . |
| 21 | Because of this cultural dominance it is often seen to be ‘ proper English ’ with other ways of speaking judged as inferior . |
| 22 | In this way it is quickly established that unc Inversion of B as in 1.9(8) then yields unc and then unc It may be of interest to note that if x = { p , q , r , s } is any vector of real numbers , not all zero , then the quadratic form unc may be written ( see also 1.22 , Theorem XIII ) unc where unc so that , where the second term does not involve p , the third p , q , and the fourth p , q , r , unc and is always positive under the conditions given . |
| 23 | However , as a study into a hitherto relatively unexplored area of commercial activity it is highly recommended to those involved in the sale of goods vehicles , in international — and domestic ( as restrictions on cabotage are removed ! ) — transport and in commerce with the CMEA countries . |
| 24 | In the large public company it is now accepted as part of conventional wisdom that the shareholding is so widely dispersed that each shareholder does not own a significant enough proportion of the company to perform any of the functions of monitoring and supervising the directors that the legal model casts upon him . |
| 25 | From a formal perspective , the description " staircase " is apt , but from a more semantic perspective it is easily seen that such a form is an instance of the parallelism of greater precision . |
| 26 | A formal pool often serves a different function from an informal one , for in an appropriate setting it is often used to mirror the garden around it . |
| 27 | In componential analysis it is usually taken as an obvious primitive feature , so that a word like wife would have the feature [ -male ] . |
| 28 | If you put money in a bank or building society some years ago , ask how much interest it is now earning . |
| 29 | This is because in any sample of right handers it is usually found that a considerable proportion of subjects do not show the expected right ear superiority for verbal material . |
| 30 | It should be noted that single rooms are generally inferior , and that when an extra bed ( often folding style ) is placed in a twin bedded room it is often cramped . |