Example sentences of "[adj] it is [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this it is related to the heads of the Two Nudes painted a few months earlier , but as opposed to them , it is more completely mask-like , and every area or section of it is clearly defined and forms a self-contained unit . |
| 2 | 8.7 It is anticipated on the basis of past experience that employees will in some respect ‘ self-select ’ for external counselling as a reaction to extreme personal stress sustained as a result of being subjected to severe violence or aggressive behaviour . |
| 3 | When the original holder sells to another it is traded in the secondary market and all subsequent sales will be in the secondary market . |
| 4 | As such it is exempted from the need to be an authorised person in respect of its investment clearing services . |
| 5 | As such it is measured by the ratio of the variance of nonmarket risk to the total variance and expressed as a percentage . |
| 6 | How easy it is to labour in the arm of the flesh , depending on one 's own strength , wisdom and ability , but how futile . |
| 7 | It makes harder reading but really shows how hard it is to get to the start line and get people interested in the project . |
| 8 | It seems to us to be an evolutionary survival factor : the more intelligent a species , the more likely it is to survive in the long term ; this is a reasonable hypothesis , but it can hardly be considered as any more than that . |
| 9 | If a company fails to meet one of these it is excluded from the portfolio . |
| 10 | Above all it is aimed at the country 's railways , where disorganisation and disruption and not only in politically-inflamed Soviet Transcaucasia have caused dangerous shortfalls of coal and oil stocks at power stations , and of other raw materials at factories across the country . |
| 11 | Er I do n't know how deep it is going in the base in the foundation I think it 's about twenty feet to the foundation . |
| 12 | Sister stressed how important it is to speak to the troubled , to have time for listening and not to evade the issue . |
| 13 | If you get a job in the warehouse or stock-room of a retailing firm , you will soon find out just how important it is to look after the stock properly . |
| 14 | This example of lens development shows how important it is to follow through the development of any particular organ . |
| 15 | It is 25 ft four inches high , six ft wide and two ft three inches thick at its base ; how far it is sunk into the ground is not known . |
| 16 | The Northern Dairy Shorthorn is officially a rare breed in Britain , though it is sometimes included under the Dairy Shorthorn umbrella in that it is registered in the Coates herdbook , albeit with a separate code to identify the bloodlines . |
| 17 | It is true that the Spanish-American novel has entered the mainstream of world literature in that it is informed by the major intellectual currents of our age , in that its exponents share the artistic and philosophical preoccupations of modern writers in general , and in that it has consciously sought and attained a universality that earlier Spanish-American fiction sometimes lacked . |
| 18 | How pleasant it is to sit on the cliffs of Dover and watch the waves rolling in . |
| 19 | In particular it is estimated by the Inland Revenue that there may be 2 ½ million married women who may be able to claim a repayment of tax on dividend income . |
| 20 | Imagine how difficult it is to look at the speaker if you can not tell the direction the voice is coming from , or if you can not hear his voice and maybe do n't know he is speaking . |