Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] it is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the vendor has been sued successfully it is then up to that vendor to try to recover a proportion of the cost incurred from the other vendors under the Civil Liability ( Contribution ) Act 1978 . |
| 2 | Because the two sets of accounts are administered independently it is relatively easy for clerical errors to arise and for items to be omitted from the costs , particularly internal transfers such as stores , transport and plant charges . |
| 3 | Once the approximate solution has been found then it is no longer a problem situation but a design situation : how can the solution be designed in a better way ? |
| 4 | ‘ If we are going to get reliable evidence from children and make our own evaluation of what they are saying then it is absolutely essential the stories are not contaminated by those who are being accused with the responsibility for harm or neglect . ’ |
| 5 | By briefly reconsidering the major industrial disputes covered by Geary 's final two periods , it will be shown how it is more advisable to explain the characteristics of the key industrial confrontations of the period in terms of the specific audiences influencing police behaviour . |
| 6 | As we have already seen , if speech is to be recorded clearly it is best picked up by an extension microphone positioned close to the speaker . |
| 7 | 1.43 It was said in Coenen v Payne [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 984 ( which was a defendant 's application for a split trial ) that such a trial will be ordered whenever it is just and convenient , and not only in difficult and unusual cases , and in Ashworth v Berkeley Walbrood ( 1984 ) The Times , 13 July that the court can be asked to try a preliminary issue whenever there is a real probability that the effect will be to save time and expense and simplify the issues , which need not be limited to questions of law . |
| 8 | Although the Yerkes-Dodson law provides an additional prediction which can be tested , it suffers firstly from the problem that it is often impossible to define task difficulty a priori and secondly that even when this is done successfully it is very hard to be sure that task difficulty does not itself affect arousal . |
| 9 | If the ball is left short it is virtually impossible to save par as the approach shot will almost certainly spin back off the green , leaving the player with a chip shot which will be equally as difficult to keep on the green the other side . |
| 10 | That is to explain why it is not picked up in the narrative , but it does not explore the more significant matter of the effect of what the compiler has done . |