Example sentences of "[conj] it is [verb] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 It follows from the foregoing that a condition of the type at issue in the main proceedings , which stipulates that where a vessel is owned or chartered by natural persons they must be of a particular nationality , and where it is owned or chartered by a company the shareholders and directors must be of that nationality , is contrary to article 52 of the E.E.C .
2 The contents are then sucked into a large tank on a trailer , which is taken to a local refuse treatment works , where it is emptied and thoroughly cleaned .
3 But when it is transferred to the printed page , where it is read and not heard , all the clues necessary for following the exchange have to be extracted from other sources in the text .
4 ‘ If not , then I fear that this paperback edition will come and it will be sold on a very large scale and will be smuggled to other countries where it is banned and will be read in translation , ’ Mr Chisti said .
5 Depending upon each plant , where it is planted and how it is supported , this tendency can often be countered by cutting back hard , encouraging the break-out of new growth from the base — and then using a little plant ‘ psychology ’ .
6 Notice that , unlike the accumulator array , where each accumulator had generalized functions , each control register or portion of a register has a specific function , although it is accessed or manipulated by instructions in a general way .
7 A step up here , a step down there until perhaps you reach the door of the room from which , although it is locked and empty , you can hear shuffling footsteps .
8 It seems to have stopped growing , although it is swimming and eating O.K.
9 Thus the statement ‘ It is raining ’ expresses the speaker 's belief that it is raining and the statement ‘ Bertrand Russell was a writer of short stories ’ expresses the speaker 's belief that Bertrand Russell was a writer of short stories .
10 Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining .
11 Now remember that a helicopter , unlike a conventional aircraft , does not necessarily have to be pointing in the direction that it is moving and that the pilot must tell the tail where to go at all times .
12 Only two outsiders are permitted to eat from the kitchen — the governor , who has to sample one meal every day to be able to answer any complaints the following day , and the doctor , who tastes the food two or three times a week to ensure that it is balanced and nutritious .
13 All you have to do is to ensure that you have sufficient work of the agreed type and standard and that it is framed and presented as required .
14 Its bearing suggests that it is irritated and jarred by what is taking place around it .
15 We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses .
16 This is probably why , for most Prague linguists , part of the definition of theme is that it is given and part of the definition of rheme is that it is new .
17 That any Petitioner whose Petition stands referred to the Select Committee shall , subject to the Rules and Orders of the House and to the Prayer of his Petition , be entitled to be heard by himself , his Counsel or Agents upon his Petition provided that it is prepared and signed in conformity with the Rules and Orders of the House , and the Member in charge of the Bill shall be entitled to be heard by his Counsel or Agents in favour of the Bill against that Petition .
18 It is sanctioned to the extent that it is allowed and it is sanctioned to the extent that it is penalized .
19 Here we fused the scFv fragment close to the N-terminus of gp70 SU and we envisage that it is folded and displayed as a separate domain .
20 I K. Campbell , 1970 , p. 23 ) It is allowed that it is enlightening or tolerable to speak of hoping , perceiving , thinking , and a good deal else as having objects or contents in the given sense .
21 It 's important that the calculation is done in a particular way , that it is managed and owned by the department .
22 The important thing is to recognise that it is happening and take the relevant action .
23 It is much easier to work your way through a list , particularly if you are dealing with things that may embarrass or upset you , than it is to try and create order out of a general conversation .
24 It 's easier sometimes not to achieve and just to settle for family life than it is to achieve and to set your occupational sights quite high and then to have to face the terrible and fight of having both a job and children .
25 ON HANDMADE AND MOULD MADE SHEETS THE LOGO IS SEWN INTO THE MESH SO IT IS RAISED AND LESS PULP IS DEPOSITED ON IT .
26 On handmade and mould-made sheets the logo is sewn onto the mesh so it is raised and less pulp is deposited on it .
27 Any other error is unacceptable , so it is reported and the program aborted .
28 In reviewing recent empirical work on women 's consciousness , Beechey ( 1983 ) notes that : women 's class consciousness , because it is largely mediated through husbands ' employment , tends to be weaker than men 's ; many women , under the influence of capitalist and male-dominated ideology , remain unconscious of their gender-related disadvantages ; women 's consciousness probably varies over their life cycle ; and it is fractured and contradictory .
29 Clients fill in a form that asks all sorts of personal questions and it is analysed and ‘ matched ’ to a likely candidate for their consideration .
30 Germany has sixty five percent and it is falling and France sixty percent and now also falling .
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