Example sentences of "[noun] it is [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Darlington result has always been one keenly watched by national political pundits it is traditionally a barometer of the way in which the nation generally is set to swing . |
| 2 | Once one has established a ‘ profile ’ of theatre-goers it is then an obvious next step to follow up the question ‘ Who ? ’ with the question ‘ Why ? ’ and the research then begins to fill in the gaps in our knowledge . |
| 3 | Speaking broadly , we may say that in the Roman church it is regarded as presumption , in the Protestant churches it is a privilege or a duty , but in the New Testament it is simply a fact . |
| 4 | From our site in Old College it is only a few minutes walk to Parliament House , where the highest criminal and civil courts in Scotland sit , and to the local Sheriff and district court . |
| 5 | Hampden Babylon is a book about the sordid and seedy underbelly of Scottish football , but in many respects it is also a book about Scotland itself . |
| 6 | Although this is a futuristic outlook it is clearly a long-term possibility now that science has revealed the nature of genetic composition . |
| 7 | Unless you have a particular pretty beamed or coved ceiling it is often a good idea to lower the ceiling area in a kitchen . |
| 8 | Along mid-oceanic ridges and subduction zones it is often a problem distinguishing between ‘ normal ’ and anomalous volcanism . |
| 9 | If a customer asks a broker to deal on an exchange it is usually an implied term of their contract that the broker will do so in accordance with the usages of that exchange . |
| 10 | A ‘ hard case ’ — and I am not disputing that for the Bland parents it is indeed a very hard case — has been found which can , and I believe will , be skilfully exploited to justify the ‘ dignified ’ removal of a subtly-expanding range of people who will be deemed to be living lives which are below some ‘ expert 's ’ criterion of an acceptable standard . |
| 11 | ‘ At the moment it is only a feeling of mine ; a hunter 's suspicion . |
| 12 | At the moment it is still a new and unproven product but it could well represent the next generation of TechDoc software , at least so far as the corporate publisher is concerned . |
| 13 | In nineteen eighty I think it was five hundred and twenty , and at the moment it is about a thousand and two . |
| 14 | But to a geologist it is about a thousand times shorter than he can ordinarily measure ! |
| 15 | Clearly , the telephone interview is attractively cheap , but in my opinion it is also a technique which could well irritate the respondents approached . |
| 16 | ‘ In my opinion it is almost an encouragement to players to behave recklessly and if he 's been quoted correctly , he has brought the game into disrepute . |
| 17 | However , as an act of self-advocacy it is both a very powerful and an excellent riposte to the ‘ trailing edge ’ of those professionals and parents who still insist that people with learning difficulties say nothing worth hearing . |
| 18 | You have to decide whether the main purpose of the data in question is for linguistic analysis , in which case you probably want a phonemic transcription ; whereas if the min purpose is for use by the local community it is clearly an orthographic transcription that is required . |
| 19 | Therefore as well as it being a problem of development within the flood plain it is also a problem of development beyond the flood plain and as well as development and I er think this in no way intending to spread the blame , but is a , is a er an observation which er I think is quite clear and that is that farming practices erm can have both beneficial and adverse effects on water regimes |
| 20 | In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it . |
| 21 | Under water it is mostly a sonic world and on the surface it is mostly visual . |
| 22 | Because the expenditure of many departments runs into hundreds of millions of pounds it is therefore a major audit task to check that the accounting and financial control systems underlying reported expenditure are both efficient and accurate . |
| 23 | As a terminus nowadays of the lake excursion service during the season it is today a main stop for many international train services . |
| 24 | In many ways it is also a partnership . |
| 25 | In many ways it is also a partnership . |
| 26 | For many of those people it is probably a godsend when someone hands them a piece of paper that might unlock the door to access to a benefit that they would otherwise not receive . |
| 27 | In the United States there has already been some production of material specifically for interactive use , but for most people it is still a question of waiting and seeing what uses , methods and materials emerge . |
| 28 | As Sa'di said : ‘ If a diamond falls in the dirt it is still a diamond , yet even if dust ascends all the way to heaven it remains without value . ’ ’ |
| 29 | Forty miles south of Perugia it is now an agricultural centre . |
| 30 | While the main focus of the Survey is on basic payments it is nevertheless a crucial benchmark because both bonus and overtime payments are to an extent determined by the basic or standard wage . |