Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] it [is] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Ben Nevis is not the killer mountain it is often represented to be in the popular press .
2 However , I can say that when a disturbance is reported on the Red Hall estate it is thoroughly investigated . ’
3 And then when you have a decision from the adjudication officer it is then allowed or disallowed .
4 In the Community context it is often referred to as ‘ codification ’ , although in practice it most often corresponds to what is called ‘ consolidation ’ in the British context .
5 As a foundation material it is only used by nomadic and some village weavers .
6 In the building trade it is well known that the cost of building a new building may be less than the cost of modifying an old one .
7 And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke .
8 On the other hand if someone dies of a heart attack it is just accepted that the cause is hereditary , ‘ He over-exerted himself once too often , ’ or most commonly , it was ‘ Just bad luck ’ .
9 In soil geography it is generally suggested that the systems approach was formally applied by Nikiforoff ( 1959 ) although earlier he had distinguished accumulative and non-accumulative soils and so implicitly involved an open system attitude ( Nikiforoff , 1949 ) .
10 If a change decreases the path length it is always accepted , whilst changes which increase the path length are only accepted with a probability depending in the current annealing temperature and the magnitude of the change .
11 In the field of cancer therapy it is well known that irradiation can cause tumours and yet they can also be treated by radiation and many of the drugs used in chemotherapy for tumours can also cause tumours .
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