Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | One story told against the KGB is that it tried to steal the design secrets of the Anglo-French supersonic aircraft Concorde . |
| 2 | Another feature of DLT is that it will ask for a yes or no answer before deleting each file , you can also delete only files with a specific extension in a specific directory e.g. DLT C : \*.; |
| 3 | But Gale expects that to change.A key benefit for Hong Kong Telecom is that it already has a major Chinese investor in the shape of the Peking-owned China International Trust & Investment Corp , which bought a 20% stake in 1990 . |
| 4 | Compania de Telefonos de Chile SA 's $182.6m proposed convertible bond issue won ratings of triple-B-minus rating from Standard & Poor 's Corp , and Baa-3 from Moody 's Investors Service Inc ; Standard & Poor 's said its rating reflects the company 's dominant position in local telephone services , growth prospects , and favourable regulatory framework ; Moody 's that it believes the company will continue to be the largest telecommunications company in Chile and will benefit from a supportive regulator . |
| 5 | The importance of the recent discovery of this document recording the conclusions of the conferences of 26–27 May is that it fills in what have hitherto been two of the most significant gaps in the whole story . |
| 6 | Subject , however , to the help of the court in these various ways , the basic principle underlying the preparation and presentation of a party 's case in the High Court in England is that it is for that party to obtain and present the evidence which he needs by his own means , provided always that such means are lawful in the country in which they are used . |
| 7 | The value of ITED is that it pinpoints strengths and weaknesses precisely . ’ |
| 8 | Another problem for Democratic Russia is that it , too , is splitting . |
| 9 | The Telegraph , too , implies that British can be neatly distinguished from Irish , but one of the complexities of Britain and Ireland is that it is not that easy to do so . |
| 10 | The problem in West Yorkshire is that it costs more there to put a police man on the beat , and the authority spends more per head of the population . |
| 11 | Glumness apart , he nonetheless would like to be thought of as a comic writer and indeed , though its themes are class , race and sex , what most impresses about The Buddha of Suburbia is that it is full of humour . |
| 12 | But the beauty of Dreamflight is that it is the norm to be disabled or sick . |
| 13 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 14 | A serious problem for Medeva is that it is too small to maintain a research programme of its own . |
| 15 | The first thing to get straight about Zurich is that it is not the capital of Switzerland , though there are times when one thinks it ought to be , and others when one gets the impression that it would not mind at all if it was . |
| 16 | The case in fact that was put forward by the North Yorkshire County Council Highways and Traffic committee was in fact that the need as so clearly expressed by Mr is that it is the A fifty nine that needs the relief more than anything else an therefore the proposal is that the northern relief road be it an inner or an outer , be built first . |
| 17 | The hypothetical action of VPDPR is that it is released from procolipase in the duodenum during digestion , is actively or passively absorbed , passes through the circulation to act on a receptor site in the central nervous system , and so inhibits , in the short term , further consumption of food , specifically that food which contains fat . |
| 18 | His argument against NAFTA is that it will suck American jobs south of the border . |
| 19 | Another advantage that Signed Swedish is supposed to have over SSL is that it is not ‘ abbreviated ’ ; every word is accompanied by a sign . |
| 20 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 21 | The one useful generalisation about war in impoverished Africa is that it takes place where there are not many expensive weapons for soldiers to kill each other with , but where the conditions of organised life are so fragile that its disruption causes lots of civilians to die of famine and disease . |
| 22 | However , with all these reservations and qualifications noted there is a city called Tyneside and in 1989 North Shields is part of it as it always has been and Cramlington is as it has been since the early 1970s . |
| 23 | Well we know that a lot of beginners are put off by the complexity of larger boats and one great advantage of the Topper is that it 's so quick to raise and easy to sail , so great for beginners . |
| 24 | A point of greater relevance to the UK is that it also differs greatly from trading and investment blocs under which a country 's trade and investment flows to countries within the bloc are free but there are restrictions between the bloc as a whole and the rest of the world . |
| 25 | I think ideally what we 're saying er Mrs is that it 's er , it 's an interesting plant and being a native plant of course there 'll be wild life that feeds on it which is to the good but it 's probably a plant for a , a larger wilder garden really . |
| 26 | The significance of My Lai is that it threatened the American national myth — that of moral superiority . |
| 27 | The central problem of the DHSS is that it is the biggest of the big spenders among government departments . |
| 28 | One of the objections frequently made about CAI is that it does not permit student-student interaction . |
| 29 | The only excuse for the House of Lords is that it exists . |
| 30 | One view which can be taken in the light of this decision of the House of Lords is that it is unsafe to rely upon Junior Books as establishing any general principle of liability , a view which accords with the recent decisions of the House of Lords in Caparo v. Dickman and Murphy v. Brentwood DC . |