Example sentences of "[pron] it is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is emphasising these offerings rather than the connectivity software products for which it is traditionally known — what it now calls a secondary stream . |
| 2 | Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries . |
| 3 | Emotionally and mentally our mind seeks out the things , people and ideas to which it is already habituated . |
| 4 | This alone would permit the evaluation of UK problems and policies in their international setting and clarify the implications of policy choices at the EEC level for the UK and the rest of the EEC as well as locating options for Europe as a whole in the global context by which it is powerfully influenced and constrained . |
| 5 | For the Chardonnay , however , to which it is best suited , four shoots require five buds , as the first bud on this vine is always infertile . |
| 6 | Marx is continually facing a problem which is very familiar to anthropologists : how to express a different system with a vocabulary which is inevitably moulded to the institutions of the society in which it is normally used . |
| 7 | If more output is obtained from the same manpower — which it is here contended could and should happen — then the allocation of resources so far as manpower is concerned will be unaffected . |
| 8 | If , for example , you compare the film Gregory 's Girl ( GG ) with the play A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( MND ) , on which it is partly based , you could organise the comparison as : GG narrative compared with MND narrative ; GG characterisation compared with MND characterisation ; etc. ; summary of comparison . |
| 9 | Wilkinson Sword hopes Protector will enable it to wrest back the technological advantage in the razor market which it is widely thought to have lost to brand leader Gillette in recent years . |
| 10 | I thought hard about my actual immune system and the white cells of which it is largely composed . |
| 11 | The analysis is strengthened because the psychology of moral reasoning is close to one particular non-psychological discourse : philosophy , from which it is nevertheless determined to assert its autonomy . |
| 12 | Taxonomy should be a common descriptive backbone to research in plant sciences , but the way in which it is conventionally presented makes such use difficult for the non-taxonomist . |
| 13 | Thus the signified tree is not the expression or reflection or product of the series of vegetable objects to which it is conventionally attached in English usage . |
| 14 | However , the prison and the system of which it is part tend to resist internal reform initiatives . |
| 15 | First , the aim in which it is designed and manufactured ; second , the retail chain that distributes it ; and third , the households in which it is finally used . |
| 16 | H. B. Barlow and J. D. Mollon , Cambridge UP £30 , pbk £ 12 — 50 ) is of wider interest than the medical field at which it is primarily aimed . |
| 17 | Our robin with the white flashes in its wings has ceded the prime territory nearest the house to another and is now with its mate , centred on the next bed along and ventures only occasionally into the crumb-patch , from which it is firmly evicted . |
| 18 | This is guaranteed by the National Liberation Council of Yugoslavia , as well as by the National Liberation Council of Šipnija with which it is closely linked . |
| 19 | It has also now established a network of offices — some of which it owns and others to which it is closely affiliated — in New York , Paris , Frankfurt and Hong Kong . |
| 20 | The rise of science , and of technological rationality with which it is closely associated , provides the basis for this reduction of human relations from qualitative to quantitative forms , of which money is the dominant model . |
| 21 | Likewise , if anthropologists used the word religion in the sense in which it is ordinarily used by ordinary speakers of English , where it is tied in with such compartmentalized matters as church membership and a professional priesthood , then it would have no application at all to most of the societies which anthropologists usually study . |
| 22 | In other words , different legal arenas are not entirely severed from each other , and political movements such as the peace movement will have to bear in mind the impact of its legal activities on legal arenas other than those with which it is immediately engaged : for example , does the encouragement of judicial activism by the peace movement , or an invitation to adjudication based on natural law , open floodgates which — although they produce desirable results in the short term — one would in the long term prefer to remain shut ? |
| 23 | any Community proposal which would lead to significant changes in UK law , or have far-reaching implications for areas of UK law other than those to which it is immediately directed ; |
| 24 | It is in Britain , however , that loyalist violence is really damaging to the cause to which it is presumably dedicated . |
| 25 | The ‘ snatch policy ’ overturns a Carter administration edict , to which it is diametrically opposed . |
| 26 | They may conveniently be divided into those in which it is explicitly stated that intention matters particularly , and those in which that is a matter of how the text is interpreted . |
| 27 | ‘ A superordinate grouping in which it is explicitly stated that all members share a single attribute was , however , much more likely when linguistic predicates were formed as complete sentences with copula [ ‘ they are round ’ ] than as incomplete sentences without . |
| 28 | On the one hand , GM has joined forces with Toyota in car production and with the Japanese van manufacturer Isuzu , to which it sold a 40 per cent stake in its Bedford van plant in the UK and with which it is now investing £70m to produce a new four-wheel drive vehicle for the European market . |
| 29 | An area which is at present not built on , which is open , which has had greenbelt protection since nineteen eighty , which it is now proposed should no longer have it . |
| 30 | It did the Labour party a great deal of damage , from which it is still recovering . |