Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | ( Note that here and elsewhere in the book , underlined stretches of talk mean that it is phonologically and/or grammatically marked as " Creole " . ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Later metabolic studies of methotrexate revealed that it is virtually without effect in the rabbit because of a metabolic peculiarity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What do you do at the end of the winter time and er spring arrives and it 's too warm for the electric blanket . |
| 7 | ( 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 . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We are never going to win the World Cup with football played as it is today . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | But later the Irish pound recovered and it is now comfortably within its level in the ERM , Europe 's currency club . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | where the bar over the V term means that it is exogenously determined : i.e. determined independently of M. |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Marian heard a quick intake of breath from Allen , the sound a horse makes when it is about to bolt . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Playing the game is not in itself drama , though a great deal of dramatic tension arises when it is well played . |
| 21 | That 's not clear exactly what that last bit says cos it 's not saying like you all of the land they rent out , but I guess it just means the excess above which |
| 22 | Despite launching those 40 new ValuePoint models , IBM Corp says that it is still supply-constrained on the earlier models of ValuePoint but that supply will be strong for the new models : ‘ Demand continues to outstrip supply with the models we currently have on the market , ’ said Angelica Horaitis , director of value brands at the IBM Personal Computer Co ; she says IBM has learned and is ready with the new ones . |
| 23 | It is not in Marx 's own writing that the idea of ‘ falseness ’ in ideology occurs and it is perhaps surprising that the notion of falseness is attributed to him ( e.g. Hirst 1976 : 385 ; Lichtheim 1967 : 18 ) . |
| 24 | Finally , technical developments in TV broadcasting and receiving equipment mean that it is rapidly becoming inevitable that , for a time at least , most TV stations will be broadcasting in two formats , to take account of the new so-called high density TV ( HDTV ) — always assuming that standards for the system can be agreed . |
| 25 | ‘ Could you please look around your yard/station/siding to see if it is there before we have to cancel trains because of lack of locomotives . ’ |
| 26 | In his footnote to Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind , J. S. Mill says that it is not ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions ’ that an object produces in us that we predicate of the object . |
| 27 | The Institute says that it is now receiving a steady stream of IVA notifications every month , a phenomenon which , until the recession started , was extremely rare . |
| 28 | However , a close examination of this work shows that it is not strictly ab initio , in that extrapolations are made from calculations performed on other molecules . |
| 29 | In fact , a close examination of a section tucked away right at the end of the Act reveals that it is very vague . |
| 30 | Whitehead Mann 's prominence shows that it is not necessary to wholly own a large number of overseas offices to gain and handle top assignments successfully ; its membership of the Ward Howell Group covers its international search needs without incurring the capital expenditure and risk that the Big Four have undertaken . |