Example sentences of "[noun sg] it is [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although this is a futuristic outlook it is clearly a long-term possibility now that science has revealed the nature of genetic composition . |
| 4 | Unless you have a particular pretty beamed or coved ceiling it is often a good idea to lower the ceiling area in a kitchen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ At the moment it is only a feeling of mine ; a hunter 's suspicion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In nineteen eighty I think it was five hundred and twenty , and at the moment it is about a thousand and two . |
| 9 | But to a geologist it is about a thousand times shorter than he can ordinarily measure ! |
| 10 | Clearly , the telephone interview is attractively cheap , but in my opinion it is also a technique which could well irritate the respondents approached . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Under water it is mostly a sonic world and on the surface it is mostly visual . |
| 17 | As a terminus nowadays of the lake excursion service during the season it is today a main stop for many international train services . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ ’ |
| 19 | For example , advertisements which consistently use businessman as the synonym for people in business seek to remind women that in many areas of commercial life it is still a man 's world . |
| 20 | In one sense it is simply a matter of keeping the value far ahead of the cost . |
| 21 | In the stricter sense it is nearly a four percent increase but that statistic itself is absolutely meaningless . |
| 22 | In that sense it is quite a deterministic theory . |
| 23 | From the sunbaked shore it is just a short walk into the tranquil rural hillside . |
| 24 | TALKING of music it is obviously a clear indicator of the ageing process . |
| 25 | At first sight it is rather a confused juxtaposition of two themes ; literary decline and political crisis . |
| 26 | Professionals segregate according to expert criteria , but ‘ what is it to be human ? ’ sounds like a philosophical question — in which case it is also a political one — rather than something for experts to decide . |
| 27 | In either case it is only a way of ascertaining what is the scope of the representation . |
| 28 | One interpretation will make this equivalent to something like the statement that Joseph painted that member of the group of generals who is , or was , not standing ; in this case it is indeed a postnominal attributive adjective joined with its noun in a single noun phrase , used for a single entity-identification . |
| 29 | Whether pigeons use a magnetic compass is still controversial , but a magnetic map sense is altogether more speculative ; at present it is merely a theoretical suggestion . |
| 30 | Clearly there is something very important going on in this move , and at one level it is indeed a necessary corrective to the textual isolationism of much modernist criticism . |