Example sentences of "[adv] it is [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he extends his arms with the fingers together it is an award . |
| 2 | Basically it is an accessory to the already solid connection between band and fans , a confirmation that the band exist as real working people and a chance for both sides to voice their appreciation of the other . |
| 3 | More especially it is a means of showing the changing moods and capacities of the hero of Victorious Troy , a younger hero than the capable Cruiser Trewsbury . |
| 4 | Evidence of the cost effectiveness of inspections is hard to come by and on this basis alone it is an area of challenge for partnerships . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps it is a sign of the approach of middle age in your reporter by the supper did not seem to be as good this year . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is a coincidence but at the Annual General Meeting in November he was elected Captain . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is a question asking for an answer … |
| 8 | In Zeus 's other great sanctuary , at Dodona in the north , he seems likewise to have been without a temple until the fifth century ; perhaps it is a function of his ancient role as sky-god . |
| 9 | Perhaps it is a reflection on the economic failure of communism that its greatest status symbol should have been the most precious household item of the unemployed in the West . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is a challenge to our Church to be a more cross-oriented fellowship , living it , and working out what it means . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is a job for the flying squad . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is a sort of demoralisation , not surprising considering the misfortunes which have wracked the East Asian communities now in Britain — first their years of suffering associated with their expulsion from Africa , then their experiences at the hands of racist British authorities who tried to keep them out of Britain , and finally the day-to-day racism which they have faced in Britain as refugees . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is a spoof based on a recent car advertisement but , as they say , ‘ Many a true word … ’ |
| 14 | Then he added : ‘ Perhaps it is a solution to their difficulties . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps it is a judgment on me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps it is a habit we share , this business of vaulting to easy conclusions . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps it is a miracle … . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps it is a school-room , or a church hall . |
| 19 | So perhaps it is no wonder that we are not the only ones who perceive the system as unjust , and that it finds itself with a crisis of legitimacy on its hands . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is no accident that he began at last to find his true identity as a painter , although his dream of sculpting still haunted him . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is the weakness of their cases which explains the hysteria , the over-blown rhetoric and bogus indignation used to justify these measures . |
| 22 | It must always have been the case that some problems are inherently insoluble , but perhaps it is the stress on all social services that turns the CAB into the last port of call when all others have failed . |
| 23 | Or perhaps it is the Rimbow , the eight-coloured , world-girdling rainbow that hovers in the mist-laden air over the Fall . |
| 24 | Perhaps it is the result of the almost exclusively ‘ arts ’ training which many theologians receive ? |
| 25 | Perhaps it is the fault of the world in which we live , but people seem to have a great fear of failing , forgetting that failing at something does not mean that one is a ‘ failure ’ at life . |
| 26 | I think perhaps it is the cocaine I keep for medical purposes , pure , straight cocaine . |
| 27 | Perhaps it is the beauty of the surroundings , the tradition of stepping in the shoes of countless generations of faithful people . |
| 28 | Perhaps it is the view from beneath an archway of the castle , which takes in the parish church , said to have been built in 1363 by John of Gaunt himself . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is the legacy of my Fifties upbringing , when the States always had that image of the cornucopia of goodies and pleasureable things , with no whiff of European austerity and rationing . |
| 30 | But perhaps it is the paradox conveyed by that closing glimpse of a parodic but unprecedented Eliot which carries the sharpest conviction of any feature of the book . |