Example sentences of "it is [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , you have a kid , a little baby boy , and the best you can do with it is to name it John ? |
| 2 | By the way it is expressed it becomes a word from God to them , at their level of understanding , indigenous and applicable to their times and struggles . |
| 3 | ‘ They have , you might say , short take off and landing , and once it is landed it can be made airborne again by simply taking one step back and tugging . |
| 4 | It is much easier to advocate such a policy ( i.e. to avoid making hasty decisions ) on the ground than it is to execute it in the air when presented with an unusual emergency . |
| 5 | Sometimes we may apply relatively simple yardsticks , such as whether the school has or has not received the newly recommended material and whether it is using it . |
| 6 | It is wasting it though if cash which is supposed to help British firms and workers is spent abroad . |
| 7 | The more viscous the lava , the more difficult it is to force it through a vent , and the vent may well become blocked with a slow-moving or stationary plug of lava . |
| 8 | but how ever it is compiled it would run contrary to the principles which my Noble Friend Lord Motterstone and my Noble Friend Lord Rippon have already stated and would stated in all parts of the House . |
| 9 | the only way to do it is to split it into two continuous bits . |
| 10 | If the remedy is not indicated it will be ignored by the body and will have no effect , and if it is indicated it can only be beneficial . |
| 11 | Now , the constitution as it " really " is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , only really line up in times of political ( and therefore constitutional ) stability when there is agreement on clear and simple constitutional fundamentals . |
| 12 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 13 | Each time it is called it snaps a new picture , since the position of the test card is presumed to have changed , and outputs some messages . |
| 14 | There are records of it going back hundreds of years all across Europe and it is presumed it was based on fertility influences . ’ |
| 15 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 16 | The prostate gland can be involved by infection , both gonococcal and non-gonococcal , and in order to tell whether it is inflamed it is helpful to be able to examine some of the fluid that it secretes . |
| 17 | It is hoped it will shortly be supplying 40 per cent of South Africa 's motor fuel requirements . |
| 18 | Carew Mill is the only restores tidal mill in Wales and it is hoped it will produce flour again in the future . |
| 19 | Although the hotel was damaged extensively in the attack early yesterday , it is hoped it may be back in business within a week . |
| 20 | Already 18 people have signed up for the competition and it is hoped it will be a fitting tribute to one of the club 's favourite performers . |
| 21 | Already 18 people have signed up for the competition and it is hoped it will be a fitting tribute to one of the club 's favourite performers . |
| 22 | The hood has been sent for forensic examination and it is hoped it will yield important clues . |
| 23 | If , for example , a shy child has been very quiet in what is supposed to be a television interview , a positive way of dealing with it is to acknowledge it as something that has happened within the dramatic fiction : " Most of us would get very nervous being interviewed for TV ; I know I would . |
| 24 | Then when it is touched it immediately snaps the shells together like a steel trap . |
| 25 | What a waste it is to depersonalise it . |
| 26 | When it is completed it will boast an indoor hall large enough to take two full-size tennis courts , social rooms , a bar and a synthetic outdoor playing pitch . |
| 27 | Amdahl Corp believes that its Huron applications development and production system is a winner , and rather than leave it stranded on the mainframe under MVS , it is taking it along in the direction the market is moving with two new versions , one that runs under its UTS implementation of Unix System V on its mainframes , the other for Unix workstations , the first version of the latter being for 80486-based machines under Unix . |
| 28 | Since documents prepared with either indented or hanging paragraphs tend to be consistently of the one style , it is as easy to set up the format before typing as it is to do it afterwards . |
| 29 | Weeds may get in the way early on and should be dealt with before they swamp your seedlings and small plants — the smaller they are when hoed off , the quicker and easier it is to do it . |
| 30 | If it is crushed it will be a severe setback not just for the people of Segundo Montes but for other refugee communities seeking repatriation as well . |