Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [is] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But since reorganization it 's become much more diverse and we 're expected to do a lot more different things . ’
2 The formation of the Napier Debating Society has , unfortunately , progressed slowly ; however , with the changeover in Sabbatical Officers of the Napier Students Association it is hoped that the Society will be able to start a recruitment drive in Fresher 's Week of academic year 1993/94 .
3 In such circumstances , if the Bank wishes to sell the stock it is holding over a reasonable time period , it will often be unable to avoid reducing its price .
4 The Times commented : As a constitutional experiment it is finished .
5 Give too much and it may bring about the very conditions it is capable of curing ; ‘ Through the like , disease is produced and through the application of the like it is cured ’ , said Hippocrates over 2000 years ago .
6 But with football it is going to be different .
7 I am 17 years old and I know many people who enjoy ‘ real ’ traditional music — no matter what speed it is played at , or how loud it is .
8 ‘ Within the next eight hours , but the speed it 's travelling it could be sooner . ’
9 Alpha Microsystems has written off its Italian and French subsidiaries and will be closing them soon , citing poor margins and continuous losses : as a result it 's taking a non-recurring charge in the second quarter , ended August 30 , and posting net losses of $3m , or 99 cents a share , on sales of $12.9m , up 9% .
10 As a result it is argued , the rate of inflation could be reduced that much more rapidly and unemployment rise that much less .
11 As a result it is overwhelmed by a mass of material that defies useful analysis and , to make matters worse , unlike the West does not have access to unlimited computer capacity .
12 We 've spent years examining the Bridge systems , but for all the good it 's done us we might have been blowing bubbles .
13 But for all the bloody good it 's doing it might as well not be there ! ’
14 With ActionAid you know exactly where your money goes and the good it is doing . ’
15 If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that .
16 Unix System Laboratories has a new marketing programme it 's calling Flood Gates that will see it knock on end-user doors on behalf of Destiny with OEMs in tow .
17 He explained that on the Continent it is taken for granted that fish caught on a line by small boats should command a premium for the careful handling that preserves both flavour and texture .
18 In the case of body this , as we have already seen , is extension ; in the case of mind it is thought .
19 As a result of this openness it is known that the Secretary of State chose to modify the Mathematics Working Party 's recommendations , particularly in the area of ‘ applied mathematics ’ , that consultation revealed that most of those consulted preferred the stance that the working party had adopted , that the Curriculum Council nevertheless made recommendations which accorded with the Secretary of State 's view and that their recommendations were , not surprisingly , accepted .
20 At low levels of arousal it is assumed that attention is divided among many cues so there will potentially be some memory for all cues .
21 As a result of her lecture demonstration it is hoped that some physiotherapy patients may be recommended to attend Medau classes .
22 However , even with their aid it is thought by some to be unlikely that the outer Moon could have been melted quickly enough to yield those highland rock samples that have given radiometric ages of about 4300 Ma and older .
23 When it is electro-plated with silver it is called electro-plated nickel silver ( EPNS ) .
24 So the finer it is the more time or expense it is to knit it .
25 The user , whether the operator of the system when it is operational or the manager of the department it is aimed to help , can readily check that the DFD is accurate because it is so graphical .
26 if there 's no fucking cellar key it 's stopping outside on the promenade !
27 In future it is hoped to establish an orchard as apples and , to a lesser extent , pears were cultivated in the later medieval period and were particularly important for the cider and perry they produced .
28 In future it is hoped that information will be posted at the nearest car parks , as well as at the crag , allowing for a change of plan before walking to the climbs !
29 In the future it is hoped that there will be a new type of computer interface which should mimic the conventional pen and paper interface .
30 In the future it is envisaged that all three methods will be available as alternative input techniques for computers , perhaps including shorthand as a fourth .
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