Example sentences of "and it is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the top is sealed , and it is smoked upside down . |
| 2 | Control is exercised at the centre and it is characterised by informal webs of influence rather than formal procedures . |
| 3 | ‘ Curry is great value and it is bound to have a big appeal for MPs because we are so often in a hurry . ’ |
| 4 | One day when the terrible moment comes and it is bound to come when we shall be talking of the Serb national catastrophe , when we shall be questioning ourselves about who was responsible for it and how it came about that we are the last nation in Europe to be surrounded by such enemies and such hatred , then many of the great brains of the Academy will find themselves in the dock if they live to see the day . |
| 5 | It is part of the natural spontaneity of the action , and it is bound to be like this . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is a long , demanding test and it is bound to favour the long hitters . ’ |
| 7 | Even lime soaps can be dispersed and solubilized , so that there is the basis of a useful emergency treatment that can be applied when the normal supply of soft water is not available or where , for some reason , hard water has been run into a vessel and it is desired to counteract its effect in situ . |
| 8 | In the context of the Act , an association is a company with corporate personality whose members are all corporations , and it is created for the purpose of ‘ promoting harmony of conduct , profitability of the business and trading interests of the members ’ . |
| 9 | The expectations gap is a complex phenomenon , and it is caused as much by financial reporting problems as it is by auditing ones . |
| 10 | If the Government of the day decide that a motorway is to be built and a footpath is to be built over the road , the cost of building a bridge or underpass is all part of the cost of building the motorway , and it is borne by the taxpayers . |
| 11 | In reviewing recent empirical work on women 's consciousness , Beechey ( 1983 ) notes that : women 's class consciousness , because it is largely mediated through husbands ' employment , tends to be weaker than men 's ; many women , under the influence of capitalist and male-dominated ideology , remain unconscious of their gender-related disadvantages ; women 's consciousness probably varies over their life cycle ; and it is fractured and contradictory . |
| 12 | The extent to which these problems will be tolerated , and the measures adopted for dealing with them , will vary from school to school , and it is accepted that it would be impossible to lay down precise rules about the steps to be taken . |
| 13 | Library use is never evenly distributed throughout the stock , and it is accepted that some stock categories will only be used by a small number of readers . |
| 14 | Rather , the offer is made by the customer when he takes the goods to the cash desk and it is accepted by the assistant at the cash desk . |
| 15 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 16 | Again , this seems an empirical question , and it is raised again in chapter 7 . |
| 17 | Clients fill in a form that asks all sorts of personal questions and it is analysed and ‘ matched ’ to a likely candidate for their consideration . |
| 18 | The information from the membrane is passed to the area of the brain that deals with vision , and it is analysed in a similar way to signals from the eyes . |
| 19 | Social policy is seen as concerned with the alleviation of social ills ; its objectives are accepted at face value ; and it is analysed in terms of its success in achieving such goals . |
| 20 | The dome diminishes in thickness from nearly 20 feet at the springing to almost 5 feet at the crown and it is built up in horizontal layers of brickwork and concrete where the cement mixture is varied so that the specific gravity diminishes with increasing height . |
| 21 | Its real purpose though — which the editor guessed ( oh yes ? ) — is for strengthening ankles , and it is called a wobble board . |
| 22 | Addressing an emergency parliamentary debate in Kiev , President Leonid Kravchuk declared : ‘ Only one state is responsible for the conflict over the Black Sea Fleet ; and it is called Russia . ’ |
| 23 | The outlook is not entirely bleak and it is reckoned that of those who enrol at a clinic , for whatever reason , about 40 per cent will be drug-free within ten years , although within that time , too , 15 per cent of opiate addicts may well be dead . |
| 24 | When the government spends the money and it is deposited in the banks , the banks ' balances at the Bank of England will be restored . |
| 25 | This is achieved through special offences and through rules invalidating apparent consent given by those under 16 , and it is supported by the Tyrrell rule against convicting a participant who falls within the class protected by the offence concerned . |
| 26 | It has proved its worth for the church and the state and it is supported by the leadership of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats . |
| 27 | SharePlex/iX is claimed to use standard networking capabilities such as X25 to provide complete application-environment replication anywhere in the world , and it is supported on all HP 3000s , including the old 16-bit ones . |
| 28 | The study programme is essentially erm addressed towards erm Third World countries , and it is supported by British technical assistance , and therefore a number of the participants , a large number , are funded by technical assistance funds . |
| 29 | De Glanville though spending some time here at Halling , was a much travelled man , rather I should say kept continuously on the run for these were most troubled times and towards the latter part of his life an interdict was placed on the country and it is recorded he was buried without a service . |
| 30 | Once a Bill or a proposed measure requiring parliamentary approval enters the lists and it is realised that an environmental impact assessment must be produced , and once it is decided to commission an environmental impact assessment it becomes public property . |