Example sentences of "[conj] it is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ pruning saw ’ normally sold for such work has teeth on two edges and , used in tight positions where it is invariably needed , great care and patience is essential to avoid the back edge causing damage to stems and growth that should not be harmed .
2 ON the edge of limestone country , Ease Gill is classic limestone : at its lower end it is a dry " alley with an impressive cavernous " kirk " , and further upstream it has the waterfall at Cow Dub where the beck leaves a pure white flowstone bed to drop twenty feet through a collapsed cavern into a deep pool where it is again cupped in limestone .
3 Their labour is taken from their own homes , where it is desperately needed , to serve in houses where people already have everything . ’
4 This facility for selective attention increases the processing power of our brains enormously by enabling us to direct our limited processing capacity where it is most needed .
5 This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall .
6 The support available from IDB represents a carefully structured package which provides assistance in those areas where it is most needed .
7 Can we stabilise production where it is most needed , in the developing countries , or will their local political struggles always frustrate the establishment of a reliable and sustainable agricultural and natural resource-dependent plan ?
8 If so , they can be used to boost the lighting by aiming it where it is most needed .
9 If fairness is to be the test , the discount is neither an efficient nor effective way of targeting help where it is most needed .
10 The pipe is simply pushed home into the fitting , where it is instantly secured , without the need for tools or a blow torch , therefore there is also no risk of fire damage to furniture .
11 To assess and provide onward referral for individuals to specialist agencies , where it is reasonably considered that the individual 's personal difficulties adversely affect their functioning at work .
12 Even where it is positively established that the right person was questioned , who by being present at the time had the nominal responsibility for cleaning the surface in question , the true reason for the fault may lie elsewhere being the result of one or other of the following factors :
13 The Congress had been elected in March 1990 [ see p. 37322 , where it is misleadingly referred to as the republican Supreme Soviet , this being in fact the name of the standing legislature elected from the Congress ] .
14 This ‘ technology transfer ’ is a process of innovation , but it involves spreading existing technology from sectors where it is conventionally used throughout industry so as to provide added value and competitive advantage .
15 Sometimes it is omitted where it is historically expected to be present , and sometimes it is added where it is not expected .
16 This should be sited in the house or in an outbuilding , where it is simply plugged into a convenient socket outlet which acts as the on/off switch for the lights .
17 This is the text from More Poems , where it is simply entitled " DIFFUGERE NIVES , Horace : Odes iv 7 " : This poem might best be read alongside Gladstone 's version published a few years earlier , a conjunction of Victorian styles in which Housman 's poem comes off fairly well .
18 In either case , the articulatory loop could not be used in quite the same way as Hitch and Baddeley ( 1978 ) propose for memory , but would be more similar to its function in reading , where it is largely suppressed .
19 Any environmental health officer who is in doubt about the existence of that power should examine schedule 3 to the 1990 Act , where it is clearly set out .
20 Community policing continues to be afforded low priority and prestige within the police force , where it is generally characterised as ‘ social work ’ or not ‘ real ’ policing ( Fielding , 1991:170 ) .
21 Timeshare is not normally a solution SAVE would recommend for a historic house because so much of the expenditure goes on pure marketing , leaving too little for the building , but where it is well organized the outcome may be satisfactory .
22 The ordinary use of the term " correlate " , where it is ordinarily used , is perhaps for a type of individual rather than an individual .
23 Velcro also in evidence all over training shoes , holdalls and generally where it is least needed .
24 The cash has been sent on to HQ where it is sorely needed ( see our Spring issue ) .
25 It has performed superbly on the Swanage Railway where it is ideally suited to the kind of work undertaken at that location .
26 The smallest of all the pigs , the bullet-shaped pygmy hog lives in the tall grasslands of northern India , where it is highly endangered because of the practice of agricultural grass-burning and , lately , armed rebellion ( see ‘ Pigs in distress ’ ) .
27 In 1963 , the car was donated to the National Tramway Museum , where it is now displayed , pending its return to native rails as a most remarkable survivor !
28 Put briefly and simply what is required is to write a formula that will allocate the time spent to the appropriate project column where it is then multiplied by the relevant charging rate to show the amount of money due from the client .
29 Following its defeats in municipal elections and in elections to the House of Councillors in July 1989 [ see pp. 36800-01 ] , the LDP had embarked upon a programme aimed at reasserting and regaining the political influence which had been damaged not only by the scandals but also by the imposition of an unpopular 3 per cent general consumption tax [ GCT — see p. 36618 , where it is wrongly referred to as a value added tax ] and by the liberalization of import controls in the agricultural sector [ see p. 36800 ] .
30 This data is incorporated in publicizing of the unit and its work ; in articles , meetings with other professional groups and in a display on the wall of the head 's office-cum staffroom where it is often referred to in the course of interviews with parents and pupils .
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