Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | One consequence of the breadth of this definition is that it has been held to cover psychological harm — where D causes V to become hysterical or to suffer substantial fear or fright , for example . |
| 3 | If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful . |
| 4 | My main criticism of intensive agricultural production , and of animal farming in particular , is that it has been locked for too long into a model-T-Ford-type philosophy , geared to produce a standard commodity as cheaply as possible . |
| 5 | What is already clear is that it has been a success in developing our own AI-skilled personnel . |
| 6 | Perhaps the best that can be said of Mr Karimov 's treatment of dissidents is that it has been consistent . |
| 7 | One reason for this lack of information is that it has been difficult to obtain pure enzymes that are sufficiently active under in vitro conditions . |
| 8 | One of the main reasons that the display looks so good is that it has been configured to use typographic faces as opposed to conventional typewriter-like text and this advantage has been further heightened by using typographic measurements throughout , each dot on the screen corresponds to 1 point . |
| 9 | The ideological success of Thatcherism is that it has been adopted by many young people for the values which direct their life style . |
| 10 | The reason you have n't read about it , even in the official UFO journals , is that it has been kept so secret that not even the ufologists know about it . |
| 11 | ‘ All I can say is that it has been tried and tested over many years . |
| 12 | The drawback is that it works be discarding colour information it thinks you do n't need , so the more compression , the lower the image quality . |
| 13 | For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey . |
| 14 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 15 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 16 | If western free-market fundamentalism has been faintly relaxed in the west , this is because it has been intensified in its export version . |
| 17 | This is because it has been replaced by more suitable roads which have been adapted to the continually changing pattern of communications and settlement development . |
| 18 | This is because it has been assumed ( e.g. by Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) that monitoring the behaviour of a listener involves a certain amount of attention and often increases the speaker 's level of arousal . |
| 19 | If Oman today is a relaxed and comfortable nation , it is because it has been led in 21 years from medieval seclusion to modern success . |
| 20 | But a is because it 's been used though . |
| 21 | However , with all these reservations and qualifications noted there is a city called Tyneside and in 1989 North Shields is part of it as it always has been and Cramlington is as it has been since the early 1970s . |
| 22 | Everything is as it has been and will be . ’ |