Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all types of contracts , particularly the last , definition of the risks it is intended to cover and the manner in which they will be allocated is of great importance . |
| 2 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |
| 3 | Restless legs it 's called . |
| 4 | Second , there are the cash resources available from the Training Agency , for those Compacts it is funding in Urban Programme Areas . |
| 5 | The answer is never one the minimum we 've come across in an organization is two the typical is five to ten and in some organizations it 's going on fifteen . |
| 6 | But unlike the £30,000 Range Rover , the Discovery is financially more accessible : at £17,300 upwards , it 's appreciably cheaper than many of the Japanese intruders it is seeking to chase out . |
| 7 | In fact , rather than jumping to simple solutions it is starting from first principles . |
| 8 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 9 | The design of an organisation depends on the goals it is pursuing , its size , its market , the environment in which it operates and the technology it is employing . |
| 10 | It sits upon a throne , an absolute monarch , unafraid of any princely off-spring still unborn and by its Subjects it is hated , feared , revered and loved , known by all and recognized by none . |
| 11 | Once again , plot is conceived of as compositional process , a bringing-into-being ; in other words it is conceived as something quite different from what one of the novel 's characters describes as a ‘ crappy mystical adventure story ’ . |
| 12 | In other words it is said that a verdict of death aggravated by lack of care may be appropriate once there is an inquest but the availability of such a verdict does not determine the question whether or not there should be an inquest . |
| 13 | In other words it is assumed that the difficulty of the item will be the same for any individual irrespective of his or her previous learning experiences etc . |
| 14 | Although they are not involved in the formal festivities it is known the Duke of York and the Queen wanted them nearby so they could enjoy seeing the children . |
| 15 | When considering a whole range of variables it is found that those social characteristics indicative of a low position of wealth or status do not appear among persons treated as criminal more often than one would expect from their proportion among the general population . |
| 16 | During a visit to Alabama on June 20 US President George Bush announced that he had " decided to suspend the dialogue between the USA and the PLO pending a satisfactory response from the PLO on the steps it is taking to resolve problems associated with the recent acts of terrorism " . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) Subsection ( 3 ) above does not apply where a society or associated body is authorised by the scheme to relieve itself of its obligation to take the steps it is directed to take or pay the compensation awarded by the society 's undertaking an obligation to give the requisite publicity for the reasons for not doing so and the society undertakes that obligation . |
| 18 | Unisys Corp has signed up to use Univel Inc 's UnixWare as the operating system on those iAPX-86-based U 6000 workstations and entry-level servers it 's expected to introduce this spring : the agreement is said to mark the start of a close strategic alliance between the pair . |
| 19 | Unisys Corp has signed up to use Univel Inc 's UnixWare as the operating system on those Intel-based Unix-run U 6000 workstations and entry-level servers it 's expected to introduce later this spring ( UX No 420 ) . |
| 20 | In other academic areas it is assumed that the teacher knows more than the student , and is there to convey this knowledge , whether as a corpus or a skill . |
| 21 | MCI Communications Corp 's annual report sheds a little more light on the company 's plans for alliances to deliver new services ( CI No 2,139 ) , saying that the company will use its high-speed digital telephone network as the base for multimedia services in alliance with other companies — ‘ With one intelligent , multimedia device — part telephone , part television and part computer — consumers will call up distant relatives and see them while they speak , ’ the annual report says , and the company is not elaborating further ; the report says ‘ a number of trends are emerging , including multimedia wireless communications and distributed processing , ’ and MCI plans to be a player in these trends ; it says the range of companies it is contacting regarding its consortium idea spans several industries under the broad definition of communications , but it is awaiting a response from the Federal Communications Commission to its proposal that consortia rather than individual companies be permitted to run Personal Communications Network before putting any discussions onto a formal basis . |
| 22 | In stronger winds it is retracted inside the board . |
| 23 | This research has been expounded at some length here to demonstrate that despite some limitations it is informed by a relatively subtle and complex analysis . |
| 24 | We must ensure government is brought closer to the people and communities it is elected to serve . |
| 25 | The Imperial War Museum 's arrival in the town and 300–400,000 visitors it is expected to attract every year is just the sort of development the town needs to help fend off an unjustified reputation recently and most controversially fostered by the Wall Street Journal as a dying town . |
| 26 | There seem to be two reasons for this differential response to the human capital theory : education in Cuba extends beyond the classroom to the fields and the factories , while in capitalist countries it is restricted to the classroom . |
| 27 | In some countries it is considered socially acceptable to compliment someone directly on his business accomplishments or the accomplishment of his company , but in Japan anything in the way of a compliment is made indirectly . |
| 28 | Once a chariot has taken its full quota of wounds it is destroyed . |
| 29 | Should the War Wagon take 5 wounds it is destroyed and the model removed from the battle . |
| 30 | This story forms a fairly complete myth of early origin , but in the New Kingdom texts it is followed by various additions , overlaid with some degree of satire , which explain how certain things happened . |