Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details are scarce but it uses a dopler meter and flow dividers and will work with vacuum tankers . |
| 2 | The performances individually are ok but it seems the tactics are wrong . |
| 3 | The Shorthorn/Highland first cross has always been popular but it took the concerted efforts of the three Cadzow brothers on an island off the west coast of Scotland to consolidate the virtues of the cross and turn it into a genuine breed , the Luing , named after the island of its origin . |
| 4 | Until 1989 the courts had said that a 'speaking " decision could be upset if it contained an obvious error . |
| 5 | The contracting phase will be unsuitable because it has no strong thermodynamic arrow of time . |
| 6 | The Council … believes strongly that a first degree course in Educational Studies lasting three years may be designed to lead to an Honours award … the concept of a three-year degree course in Educational Studies , leading to an Honours or an unclassified degree , will be acceptable provided it combines an adequate period of practical experience in the classroom with a requisite minimum of academic studies . |
| 7 | A syllable will tend to be prominent if it contains a vowel that is different in quality from neighbouring vowels . |
| 8 | It may , in fact , be counter-productive because it produces a state of high emotional arousal ( anger or anxiety ) that is notorious for interfering with the acquisition of new skills and behaviours . |
| 9 | Later Macmillan was reputed to have defended his decision in a sentence which is likely to be authentic because it has the Macmillan ring : ‘ I thought we had had enough of Martha and it was time for some Mary. , |
| 10 | I consider this tendency to be dangerous because it undermines the great eighteenth-century idea of the unity of mankind , an idea that is so menaced anyway by racism and other movements of the same sort . |
| 11 | Barthes is here influenced , no doubt , by the founder of deconstruction , Jacques Derrida , who argued that contrary to the traditional view that speech is the exemplary case of language in use , and writing an artificial substitute for speech , writing ought to be privileged because it exposes the fallacious metaphysics of presence , of the autonomy of the subject , which speech encourages . |
| 12 | It would never be comfortable while it had the square Canton-wood furniture . |
| 13 | Section 8 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act provides that a clause in a contract which purports to exclude or restrict liability for misrepresentation will only be effective if it satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |
| 14 | It ought also to be useful because it provides a context which is meaningful to children , and in which a variety of reading skills can be learned . |
| 15 | For instance , what the Harlequins are doing with Troy Coker at the moment may be legal but it bears no relation to what the law should be or to what it should be seen to be . |
| 16 | We consider database to be online because it has a number of distinct features functionality . |
| 17 | On the settlement day the value of the forward contract could be negative since it equals the current price of the stock minus the prearranged forward price . |
| 18 | p must of course be negative because it represents the space-charge density of electrons . |
| 19 | It may however be deemed to be incorrect if it provides the wrong gear ratios . |
| 20 | Tha that 's why I 'm a bit concerned about messing around s straightening and that sort of thing , cos I 'm sure I 've had this problem before I 'm sure that it reduces a lot of er |
| 21 | It 's not a sum you 'd throw away ; but you 'd be happy if it bought a new handbag , a train fare to London or a tankful of petrol . |
| 22 | The system involves an obligation to provide evidence of having sought help from charities , friends and relations , and even if this can be provided and the request deemed a reasonable one , no payment will be forthcoming if it involves the breach of cash limits . |
| 23 | The rolling stall turn is one of the most difficult manoeuvres and it should be apparent that it requires a clean , high powered , helicopter . |
| 24 | The Acousticube might be small but it sports a heck of a lot of knobs and sockets . |
| 25 | Washington could not but be uneasy when it heard the British ( and later the French ) hinting ( and sometimes stating more explicitly ) that their nuclear force might be used to trigger American use of nuclear weapons in an East–West confrontation . |
| 26 | The zeal will be fruitful if it makes the chain of human errors harder to repeat ; fruitless if it seeks the mare 's nest of perfect safety , particularly through technology . |
| 27 | If the cross was black , the octopus would be shocked as it touched the crab ; if white , it would not . |
| 28 | It may be that the only times the parents show joint concern is when the child misbehaves and so the child continues to be difficult as it keeps the family together . |
| 29 | It may be sufficient if it imputes a quality in something which applies to an already well-known product , an important factor being whether the public will be deceived . |
| 30 | If that were so then what I say would be true if it had the appropriate backing , false otherwise . |