Example sentences of "it is [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is however landscape which holds the greatest interest for the Royal artist and Deeside , the Yorkshire Dales , and Norfolk are among the areas where he has roamed with sketch-pad and paints . |
| 2 | It is simply defending its own caste interests . |
| 3 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 4 | Sometimes truth may be suppressed for a long time but while it is imprisoned it gathers to itself more and more power so that on the day that it is finally released it explodes , blowing everything asunder . |
| 5 | If there is a point to saluting the winner of a race , it is ultimately to celebrate his good fortune in being given the natural attributes to do what he does ; and to thank him for the excitement of the spectacle he provides in devoting all his concentrated effort to showing he 's the best . |
| 6 | ‘ It is no use me spitting out my dummy , ’ he said , borrowing a a popular Australian phrase . |
| 7 | It is no use us trying to clobber the economy with high taxation any more than it 's any use Lawson clobbering the economy with high interest rates … |
| 8 | If he loses all his money it is no use his having saved tax . |
| 9 | … If not , it is no use his coming . ’ |
| 10 | If I see God 's power clearly but not his wisdom , then it is no use my finding out about his justice or faithfulness . |
| 11 | It is widely believed he already has a short two per cent stake although Allied has not detected his presence on its share register . |
| 12 | When you come to answer an exam question , remember that it is probably asking you to carry out a number of different tasks . |
| 13 | Death ‘ But it is well known there needs to be a substantial realignment of production capacity . ’ |
| 14 | It is also hoped it will avoid the much faster wheelchairs catching the elite women runners — who start five minutes earlier — at an early point where they are running as a group and hard to pass . |
| 15 | Not only is it pitting top provincial players against each other but it is also providing them with opportunities to play even tougher , more competitive rugby . |
| 16 | It is also tightening its mandatory requirements of the local education systems particularly in respect of the curriculums . |
| 17 | Having raised $17m from its flotation , it is also keeping its beady eye on potential acquisitions — mostly in the US . |
| 18 | It is also extending its horizons : introducing the latest annual report , Blundell spoke of the opportunities of trying to feed the world 's expanding population instead of concentrating on parochial matters like European food mountains . |
| 19 | It is also extending its fleet maintenance division and now has two service centres , one in Coventry and the other recently opened in Leamington . |
| 20 | But it is also acquiring its partner 's stakes in an industrial development in Surrey , and a housing development in Ilford , Essex . |
| 21 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge — figures , page seven — said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices ; it also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field ; it is also enhancing our Huron applications development and production system , which creates applications that run without change in both proprietary and open environments and on both large and desktop systems , the company added , saying that its objective is to turn Huron into an industry standard and to develop a growing business in open systems for large-scale computing . |
| 22 | It is also closing its personnel applications development and support base in Huntsville , Alamaba and moving the work to its Atlanta base . |
| 23 | M most of it is just formalizing what we 're doing and formalizing the changes in the establishment |
| 24 | In the meantime , it is presently developing its overall strategy . |
| 25 | Italy seems to be coming close to that point of no return ; it is rapidly exhausting its reserves of international goodwill as well as its reserves of foreign currency . |
| 26 | With enormous natural resources , including more arable land than the whole of Western Europe , it is rapidly diversifying its agrarian economy , while , from its firmly established industrial base , it has pushed up its exports to record levels of about US 24 billion dollars . |
| 27 | Envisaged as a comprehensive restructuring of educational provision in further education colleges into 40-hour modules , it is rapidly finding its way into the work of the secondary school . |
| 28 | It is undemocratically imposing its will on reluctant schools ; |
| 29 | Perhaps there is a positive role here for the Countryside Council for Wales , since it is currently clarifying its policy in this area ? |
| 30 | It is currently patenting its small antenna technology in the US . |