Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main criterion for an effective service must be that it is staffed by experienced professionals who are appropriately qualified . |
| 2 | It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ . |
| 3 | It was not known yesterday what the exact number of redundancies would be but it is hoped that they can be achieved voluntarily . |
| 4 | … in-service training is often much less effective than it could be because it is based on an ‘ educational model ’ i.e. is focussed largely on the individual . |
| 5 | We are also very strongly influenced by our expectations ; if we have heard and understood half a sentence , it seems that our brain is already guessing at what the rest of it will be before it is heard , and is certainly not acting in a passive way like a simple machine . |
| 6 | The probable significance of all this is that it is mistaken to attempt to generalize about employers ' attitudes to young workers . |
| 7 | The downside of the book is that it is written in a terribly deadpan style : ‘ At forty-five Picasso had become a successful man . |
| 8 | The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society . |
| 9 | The particular value of task-centred work is that it is based on an intention to form an agreement or contract between the client and the worker , thus freeing the client from the burden of always being a grateful recipient . |
| 10 | The real merit in this suggestion is that it is based upon ( in principle ) easily observed magnitudes those calculating the bonus need know only about price , output and cost levels in each period ; they do not need to estimate either demand or cost functions . |
| 11 | There is moreover a further difficulty with the thesis which is that it is based upon a dichotomy between fact and value which is hard to sustain . |
| 12 | The problem with this approach however is that it is based on opportunism rather than commitment . |
| 13 | A final reason for the possible failure of an appraisal system is that it is conducted as a top down , rather than a bottom up approach . |
| 14 | The reality of the process of change is that it is conducted in context . |
| 15 | Its other main claim to fame is that it is credited with inventing the word tweed to describe the famous cloth first made in the area . |
| 16 | What gives this discussion an additional interest , though , is that it is incorporated into an ambitious overarching historical schema , which aims to ‘ explain' nothing less than the whole development of world music . |
| 17 | The disparity between the revenue raised by the BBC in Scotland and the resources allocated by London to Scotland , reported today , highlights just how crucial is the debate over the BBC 's charter and how vital it is that it is made much more prominent in Scottish life . |
| 18 | The reason for keeping women and men separated is that it is felt that a man can not concentrate on prayer when women are in close proximity . |
| 19 | The third feature of English discovery to be noted is that it is limited to the discovery of documents . |
| 20 | In fact , the dilemma of any national state in cultural terms is that it is charged with defending cultural patrimony within a world market over which it exercises little control . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else . |
| 23 | Hong Kong 's special interest to the zoologist is that it is situated practically where two zoo-geographical regions meet , the Oriental , in which it actually lies , and the Palaearctic . |
| 24 | The chief significance of this from the ‘ separation of ownership and control ’ viewpoint is that it is said to restore ‘ integrity to the goal-specification and policing process ’ that is lost through the attenuation of shareholder control . |
| 25 | The main importance of A. braziliense is that it is regarded as the primary cause of cutaneous larva migrans in man . |
| 26 | ‘ The danger is that it is perceived that your board is already committed to change . |
| 27 | However , the major weakness of the Keynesian theory of the demand for money is that it is couched in terms of a choice simply between money and bonds . |
| 28 | The genius of our constitution is that it is geared to the real world . |
| 29 | This is a reflection of a more general characteristic of review , which is that it is geared towards the avoidance of mistakes . |
| 30 | The only possible explanation is that it is employed by mother cats when out with their nearly fully-grown kittens , to help focus their attention on potential prey , as part of a general hunt-training process . |