Example sentences of "is [adj] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right now the gossip in the town is that Ingrid is pregnant and it looks as though Olive King is about to become a star … about time too ! |
| 2 | It is eternal and it illuminates despair . |
| 3 | A copy of the 1991 Census datasets will be deposited at the ESRC Data Archive ( where it will join the data from previous Censuses ) when the data is complete and it appears that all corrections have been made . |
| 4 | Secondly , as mentioned before , Hindu society is patrilineal and it follows a rigid system of caste distinction . |
| 5 | If it is pushed at the wrong point of the swinging cycle , the motion is upset and it tends to stop . |
| 6 | His output is prodigious and it springs from the unbending control he exercises over every aspect of his life . |
| 7 | The Commission is multi-disciplinary and it exists to provide independent medical opinions to consent to treatment ; to keep the powers of detention under review ; to prepare a Code of Practice ; and to visit and interview detained patients and investigate individual complaints . |
| 8 | It has beautiful purple and green plumage , but its voice is strident and it threshes its wings frantically overhead when in the presence of any other murder victim , crying ‘ Ishkoonee ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But the language of our Parliament is English and it seems only right that any hospitality I give should be in English too . ’ |
| 10 | The method is simple and it relies on the duck 's instinct to try to chase away a threatening fox . |
| 11 | The key issue is straightforward and it arises from a simple fact . |
| 12 | This cultivated form of love is universal and is magnanimous and it conquers all : ‘ If when another says , ‘ I can not love you any longer , ' ’ one proudly answers , ‘ Then I can also get along without loving you . ' ’ |
| 13 | A geographical area to work in if that is appropriate and it does not interfere with existing house-to-house and street collections . |
| 14 | In the eyes of the Department of Energy , wave power on a large scale is uneconomical and it ceased to fund such projects following reviews in 1983 and 1985 . |
| 15 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 16 | The neck is dirty and the thing is white and it looks , and it 's so , the neck is dirty of the top , of the |
| 17 | As the material is synthetic , use a matching thread — 50 denier is ideal and it comes in many colours , although strangely very few kite-makers seem to want other than black . |
| 18 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |
| 19 | To have self-confidence is great and it helps when you apply for a new job , but to eat up your seed corn because you 're sure all will turn out for the best is foolhardy . |
| 20 | Freezing , something when er a liquid is freezing and it changes when it is you know changes in the physical sense of the |
| 21 | At first sight , the filter circuit may appear conventional but the presence of the diode D1 is unconventional and it seems as though it is going to be switched off all the time anyway , the anode ( a ) always being at zero potential . |
| 22 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 23 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 24 | The tyres are wearing well , fuel economy is improving and it has needed no extra oil since its 6000-mile service , which cost a reasonable £17.48 . |
| 25 | In paragraphs two onwards , I give the names of the local governments staff commission , erm , what their statutory it is , and can I just point out at the bottom of the page , paragraph five , please remember that the staff commission is advisory and it has in itself no mandatory powers . |
| 26 | This warm water now in the eastern Pacific usually occurs near Christmas time , although its arrival is unpredictable and it does not come every year . |
| 27 | It is incomplete and it has also no structural significance although it is tempting to describe for example the " springs ' in terms of contractile polymer chains ( entropy springs ) and the " dash-pots ' as descriptive of the motion of chains through holes or barriers to motion caused by adjacent chains . |
| 28 | This is the ‘ region ’ for which extensive social and economic trend information is available and it has a practical reality as the area of responsibility of the Northern Regional Health Authority and as the regional level of organization of central state departments . |
| 29 | In all aspects of pay and promotion the personal evaluation is critical and it takes account not just of performance at the current job but desirable personality traits such as creativity , emotional maturity and ability to cooperate with others . |
| 30 | The establishment of compatibility is slower and it remains less stable when the two animals are both of high initial dominance ; thus two males are less compatible than a male — female dyad . |