Example sentences of "it is [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of it is intensively managed grassland carrying a heavy stocking of dairy cattle . |
| 2 | In an act of knee-jerk political correctness , the University of Washington in Seattle has sold all its Microsoft Corp shares because it is again doing business in South Africa . |
| 3 | And yet even the New Testament as it is today bears witness , if one looks at it closely , to Jesus as a military and political Messiah — to Jesus , in other words , as a would-be precursor of Constantine . |
| 4 | It is well settled law that the exercise by the Court of its discretionary power to validate a post-petition payment does not turn on whether the company was or was not damaged by the payment . |
| 5 | This dust is sometimes called fines , and it is also called soil but this is a poor term because it implies an organic component , which is absent . |
| 6 | As part of its co-operation with Digital Equipment Corp ( CI No 1,952 ) it is also co-funding research work with DEC on the ‘ Active Badge ’ . |
| 7 | It is also seeking funding from the European Social Fund . |
| 8 | However , while Accountancy Personnel estimated similar average pay increases of around two per cent , it is also noted student recruitment and partnership prospects for qualifieds were on the up and redundancies were falling in public practice , and some demand for specialist skills and pro-active commercial skills in commerce and industry . |
| 9 | The company says it is also taking control of the Common Lisp interface manager for Apple Computer Inc Macintosh computers and is to become an Apple value-added reseller for Macintosh Common Lisp . |
| 10 | It is also making Unix zealots lose their religion . |
| 11 | ‘ It is also extending access to higher education for local people and expanding the range of courses for vocational education in social work , nursing , physiotherapy , occupational therapy and radiotherapy . ’ |
| 12 | It is also adding object and application layers on top of the operating system . |
| 13 | It is also enhancing support and Customer Support arm will offer expanded options to make sure customers succeed with installation , use and deployment of Notes 3 . |
| 14 | It is also enhancing support and Customer Support arm will offer expanded options to make sure customers succeed with installation , use and deployment of Notes 3 . |
| 15 | Sun — which admits its latest strategy is similar to the route trodden by MIPS Computer Systems Inc that now has half a dozen semiconductor companies selling its R series RISC designs — says it is just awaiting clearance to announce the names of several firms that have agreed to take on the Sparc . |
| 16 | Orem , Utah-based WordPerfect Corp says its WordPerfect 6.0 for MS-DOS will be released on June 28 and that customer demand for it is already reaching record levels : the latest beta version will include drag-and-drop text , scrolling Button Bars and separate set-up options for the text mode and graphics mode ; the thing will be $500 . |
| 17 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
| 18 | It is already taken care of Thank you for keeping me company . ’ |
| 19 | Secondly , it is mindfully directed thinking , displaying a quality of attentiveness . |
| 20 | Alternatively , where a local plan is in existence it is usually stated policy to confine certain types of industry to particular areas , restricting land use in and around residential areas to that of a ‘ light industrial ’ nature within Class III of the Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order 1972 ; defined as : |
| 21 | RE is on a much stronger wicket than it is usually given credit for , provided it is open in character . |
| 22 | It is usually held flat against the underside of the body , but if disturbed , the springtail flicks it backwards , projecting the animal into the air and out of harm 's way . |
| 23 | It is often given solo passages to play , and its tone is so intrinsically striking that entirely unaccompanied phrases are not infrequently allotted to it . |
| 24 | This phenomenon is distinct from onomatopoeia — it is sometimes called sound symbolism : there is no question of auditory resemblance . |
| 25 | If we take the robust view that it is long run competition which is important , and therefore entry-deterring strategies are to be frowned upon , there is the considerable difficulty of distinguishing ‘ innocent ’ from ‘ strategic ’ behaviour . |
| 26 | The wind or Spirit of the Lord is indeed power , but it is morally defined power , designed to communicate the will of God and bring his creation into conformity with it . |
| 27 | CDS says it is currently designing multi-processing versions of both . |
| 28 | It is really meking history bringing poetry alive |
| 29 | It is specifically targeting manufacturing , retail , teleservices , decision , support , information publishing and branch automation as well as its old standbys engineering , scientific and electronic design automation . |
| 30 | In the A7 , the Single Chip A Series Mainframe Processor is combined with an 80486 companion processor , using the common iAPX-86 architecture dev-eloped by Unisys for its personal computers , Unix and CTOS machines ; it is there to support Unix or OS/2 applications in parallel with the proprietary MCP/AS . |