Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] it is " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The main difference is in the language used to describe what is responsible for that residuum : for determinists it is the variability of constellations of causes in individual cases ; for indeterminists it is our ability to choose not to be predictable . |
| 2 | For beginners it is best to start on slow , careful speech , such as that of newsreaders , before attempting conversational speech . |
| 3 | It still ca n't handle halftones but for text it is more than adequate . |
| 4 | Mean latent periods for malignant tumour detection after radiation exposure are estimated at about 25 years , although for leukaemia it is between 8 and 14 years . |
| 5 | ALTHOUGH relationships with parents determine in large measure our longer-term preferences , attitudes and values , during adolescence it is often relationships with friends that cause most concern and which pre-occupy the thoughts of young people as they grow up . |
| 6 | With such low interest rates for savers it is important to analyse just what you are getting at the end of the plan 's life and this is just what this month 's spreadsheet is all about . |
| 7 | In a cleaning kit for instance it is quite possible to provide one product in a squeeze pack , another in a powder shaker and a third in a spray bottle . |
| 8 | For instance it is offering a number of parallel application development packages — Linda , Express and PVM — alongside the AIX Parallel Environment Software that the company has developed itself for the SP1 . |
| 9 | For instance it is unlikely that we will cross a road safely if we are not mildly anxious . |
| 10 | These factors may be grammatical ; for instance it is ungrammatical to put verbs in theme position in English , though not in Arabic or Spanish . |
| 11 | Where the high-bay warehouse is part of an overall local storage and distribution unit to service a manufacturing or processing division on the same site , or where for instance it is sited in the middle of a department store to supply the selling floors , the fundamental principle of ‘ containment ’ of the risk and isolation of the volume from the adjacent areas will be the paramount consideration . |
| 12 | In so far as meaning is a problem for semiotics it is not a question of discovering ‘ hidden meanings ’ but one of the structure of signifiers that communicate a meaning accepted by participants . |
| 13 | Weight for weight it is far more effective than salts in depressing freezing point , and physiologically far less intrusive on cellular activities . |
| 14 | But for foreigners it is different , but they have to pay three times the Austrian fees . |
| 15 | For brevity it is worth using these little symbols which are easy to learn . |
| 16 | Gram for gram it is up to 200 times sweeter than sugar and on average three times sweeter than aspartame . |
| 17 | It takes some nerve , and it seems as though I am eradicating what I have , but the white ‘ sinks ’ and through practice it is possible to judge the correct strength . |
| 18 | For Steven it is a second marriage . |
| 19 | When the phoneme occurs between vowels it is sometimes pronounced as a ‘ tap ’ ( the tongue blade strikes the alveolar ridge sharply , producing a very brief voiced plosive : the phonetic symbol is ; this is very common in American English , and is also found in a number of accents in England : think of a typical American pronunciation of ‘ getting better ’ [ ] . |
| 20 | After assembly it is first period , maths in room twelve . |
| 21 | After Seymour it is thought that all of these accused would be guilty of reckless manslaughter . |
| 22 | DISNEY chiefs are fighting a US ruling that their new film , Sarafina , is not fit for children under 13 after claims it is too violent . |
| 23 | After breakfast it is parade and the men stand in the lines while the warders , who are backed by the fire power of the guards , come with their lists to count and recount . |
| 24 | After dinner it is time to visit the bakers , hard at work in the mobile field bakery . |
| 25 | If this all seems like another blow for bureaucracy it is not intended to be so . |
| 26 | For Callinicos it is October which made the vision of social transformation ‘ concrete ’ . |
| 27 | For Callinicos it is a belief in this possibility , and that alone , which remainders melancholy and irony — that is to say , Modernism — as an adequate response to modern life . |
| 28 | Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed . |
| 29 | If a corporate public authority is unable to sue for libel it is , however , by no means without remedy . |
| 30 | Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past . |