Example sentences of "is [verb] [conj] it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nectar never provides a complete diet for any of these birds , which also eat insects or other animals but , as nectar is replenished as it is removed , birds may defend clumps of nectariferous flowers . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) A change in the processes of teaching and learning is justified because it is believed to enable the more effective transmission and reception of the content of the curriculum ; i.e. we change process as instrumental in acquiring knowledge of content . |
| 3 | Mrs Dennison looked up from her plate a little flushed and said : ‘ I 'm always suspicious of the excuse that a sin is justified if it 's done to benefit someone we love . |
| 4 | Coca cola plant is halted before it 's built . |
| 5 | Thirstless and usually is irritated if it is offered ; the child only grunts . |
| 6 | The centre of the circle is stabilised when it is occupied by a fourth dot . |
| 7 | If a frog is climbing when it is attacked , it may drop to the ground and lie there motionless for several minutes before risking an escape . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the company is bragging that it 's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486 . |
| 9 | The response is encrypted as it is sent , and responses come back faster than pre-PROFS . |
| 10 | The geology of the basin is varied and it is dominated by the massive Golden Lane carbonate platform . |
| 11 | Since the Validation program may take several hours to run , it is recommended that it is run overnight in batch mode . |
| 12 | In addition , the new section captures the essence of the old law , that the conduct is caught if it is intended or likely to provoke others to cause unlawful violence . |
| 13 | Not only has Trifolium repens a guerrilla growth form but its guerrilla character is exaggerated when it is growing with grasses ; its branching then tends to be reduced and growth is concentrated in linear extension . |
| 14 | of this species is accepted as it is described in Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae of G.H.K. Thwaites . |
| 15 | 19 , is made and it is suggested that the plaintiff can not utilise this exception because the measure sought is not ‘ indistinctly applicable . ’ |
| 16 | Even in the prenatal period the fetus is communicating that it is growing in size ; and in the later months of pregnancy that it is capable of movement . |
| 17 | An object is manufactured before it is purchased , and we therefore have a tendency to see consumption activities as the result of , or as a process secondary to , the development of manufacturing and other forms of production . |
| 18 | These experiments generally show that there is discrimination against black people in the sense that the black actor is not given the job , or is told that it is filled , while the similarly qualified white actor is given the job . |
| 19 | Will the Minister ensure that a life cycle analysis is built into the scheme to ensure that a product is judged from the time it is produced until it is recycled or destroyed ? |
| 20 | Obviously , if the company is sold before it is completed there is no guarantee a buyer would honour the agreement . " |
| 21 | IBM Corp last week duly introduced the rack-mounted RS/6000 Powerserver 970 and the 970E model , which is what the thing is called when it is upgraded from a 930 , 950 or 950E , killing off the 930 in the process . |
| 22 | Henry Fairlie wrote : ‘ The exercise of power in Britain ( more specifically , in England ) can not be understood unless it is recognised that it is exercised socially . ’ |
| 23 | Men of science want to know everything there is to know , do everything there is to do whether it 's turning a cow into beef burgers in 10 minutes flat or creating the ‘ ultimate ’ erotic experience ; men do it all in the name of progress . |
| 24 | your car is damaged while it is parked and unattended or a motor trader has it to service or repair it ; or |
| 25 | your car is damaged while it is parked and unattended or a motor trader has it to service or repair it ; or |
| 26 | It is sipped or it is gulped ; sippers and gulpers , that is . |
| 27 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 28 | A CLI command file is terminated when the end of the file is reached or it is suspended ( see later ) . |
| 29 | The important thing is to recognise that it is happening and take the relevant action . |
| 30 | A communication is protected if it is made to further a common interest — a circular published to shareholders in a company , or to fellow members of a trade union , or an inter-office memorandum . |