Example sentences of "[pron] it [vb -s] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the reliability of the source , both the fact that it is recent and the broad view which it takes are encouraging . |
| 2 | He told delegates : ‘ The Company 's relationship with the trade unions with which it negotiates is healthy and constructive . |
| 3 | Sparc wannabe , California start-up Integrix Inc , has a graphics accelerator board , the SGX 120 , which it says is identical in resolution to Sun Microsystems Inc 's 1280 x 1024 resolution GX+ board , but only requires one Sbus slot : it 's priced at $2,750 with availability later this month . |
| 4 | The State Administration for Environmental Protection has made public the names of 3,000 businesses which it says are responsible for the lion 's share of China 's industrial pollution . |
| 5 | But on other occasions , to use a phrase of Nietzsche , ‘ a thought comes when ‘ it ’ wants , not when I want ’ , explodes and opens out too fast in in too complex ramifications to be disciplined , takes bold analogical leaps in defiance of logical rigour ; the problem on which it centres is obscure , defining itself in the process of being solved , and as he struggles to formulate it the thought is running in another direction , yet he yields to the flow out of a vague intimation that it will circle back ; for the final effort to force the argument into a coherent and publicly testable form — the only assurance even for himself that he is illumined and not deluded — he waits until the time comes to complete it on paper . |
| 6 | The contrast between this text and the text on which it comments is instructive . |
| 7 | Survival International , in co-operation with Minewatch , has published details of activities by some of the world 's major industrial companies which it claims are responsible for causing serious damage to the traditional lands of tribal people in the Americas . |
| 8 | SNH , in its submission to Lord Donaldson 's inquiry on the prevention of pollution from merchant shipping , identifies measures which it claims are vital to the protection of Scotland 's marine and coastal environments . |
| 9 | Fremont-based Media Vision has developed a video compression system which it claims is comparable to the MPEG or DVI standards , but at a tenth the price . |
| 10 | Moreover , the attention the association has paid to cinema has offered a space in which it has been possible to raise the issue of the production and distribution of narrative and dramatic works in African languages . |
| 11 | Often musical ideas and phrases were taken from western records , which it has been possible to buy on the black market at high prices ( for ⅕ of the average monthly wage ) . |
| 12 | It is because of this historical dimension to the religion that those arguing ( for example ) for the ordination of women apparently find it so difficult to say , in the way in which it has been possible to maintain in the sphere of politics , that we hold these truths to be self-evident , that all human beings are created equal and must not be discriminated against . |
| 13 | The modern convergence , which the contemporary sociology of culture embodies , is in fact an attempt to rework , from a particular set of interests , those general social and sociological ideas within which it has been possible to see communication , language and art as marginal and peripheral , or as at best secondary and derived social processes . |
| 14 | Later this month , it will announce an operating profit for the first quarter of 1992 , the second quarter running in which it has been profitable : the last quarter of 1991 produced a small profit of $80 million , although the year as a whole showed a $1.4 billion loss on turnover of $8.6 billion . |
| 15 | Pizzorno argues that the modern underdevelopment of the south of Italy can only be understood in terms of the historical relationship of area to the locations of power and productivity by which it has been dominated and to which it has been marginal . |
| 16 | The idea that there is free trade in the EEC is in many key sectors of economic activity as misplaced as would be the suggestion that there is a free market in European agricultural products , another sector which it has been British policy to attempt to liberalise . |
| 17 | One must wonder whether the book trade will continue to have the large and complicated distribution systems which it has been able to support in the past . |
| 18 | But narrative on the scale which it demands is impossible in a book like this . |
| 19 | In working towards the growth of a total quality culture it seeks to impact on all aspects of Scottish life , encompassing corporate responsibility and individual quality awareness both of which it believes are fundamental to long-term Scottish success . |
| 20 | In the first case the item in question is cheap to produce but the parts to which it assembles are difficult to design and the assembly process demanding . |
| 21 | In the first case the item in question is cheap to produce but the parts to which it assembles are difficult to design and the assembly process demanding . |
| 22 | For instance , Tyrell 's employees , who it seems are human , are all old or ill . |
| 23 | Richard Ryder , Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Food , Fisheries and Agriculture Shopping in a place called a health food shop does n't mean you can assume everything it sells is safe or healthy . |
| 24 | The initials stand for Tax Exempt Special Savings Account , but according to a recent survey not everyone it seems is aware of a Tessa 's principal attraction — its tax free label . |
| 25 | Even if the intermediary is an ordinary business investor ( see page 36 below ) , the customer agreement will have to be a private customer agreement if the indirect customer route is adopted and any of the intermediary 's clients to whom it relates are private . |
| 26 | Gable is honest enough to acknowledge that there 's some truth in the saying that no publicity is bad publicity : ‘ The cynical and worldly part of me tells me it 's been wonderful because the production must be the most talked about in 20 years of dance . |
| 27 | Moore would surely grant that there is an indefinability of the word which follows from the fact that what it labels is indefinable , while those who treat it as a statement about a word see it as turning upon what the word is supposed to stand for . |
| 28 | Erm it can set its parameters to what it thinks is suitable then . |
| 29 | What it excludes are mass produced images , popular images of childhood , equally subversive or ideologically determined which punctuate our daily lives . |
| 30 | Acer Inc claims to have the ‘ world 's first single Pentium chip multiprocessor upgrade technology , ’ the engine for the fastest entry-level server ever developed : details of what it means are scarce . |