Example sentences of "it is [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is telephone calls on Report and letters in Committee . |
| 2 | It is factory made and the paste has many small holes in it . |
| 3 | It is interpretation carried out within an existing legal framework : where a trust has actually been set up by a settlor , and it is a matter for the jurist to interpret or elucidate details . |
| 4 | ( Crick , 1979 , p. 132 ) The language is not so hard to understand , and it is jejune to suppose that not knowing it has impeded philosophy , or that knowing it will help a lot . ) |
| 5 | PPs at the basic level are unlikely to beat even a moderately good occupational pension scheme , and anyone in a good scheme — especially if it is inflation proofed like those in the public services — would be unwise to move out . |
| 6 | IT IS ACTIVITY BASED |
| 7 | I am sure that the House — at least , I hope that the House — will join in condemning international terrorism , particularly when it is state inspired . |
| 8 | What makes an object fashionable it is ability to signify the present ; it is thus always doomed to become unfashionable with the movement of time . |
| 9 | It is stress causing hostility and aggression that is now thought to contribute to cholesterol deposits in arteries . ’ |
| 10 | Engineering employment in the first half of nineteen ninety three is estimated to be a hundred and twenty thousand fewer than twelve months earlier and it is forecast to fall another forty five thousand in the next twelve months . |
| 11 | But it is damage wrought on the international competitiveness of American firms that really gives pause for thought . |
| 12 | In the UK , too , it is conduct to exploit a monopoly position which is attacked under the Fair Trade Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , rather than the process of acquiring that position . |
| 13 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 14 | ‘ All internment is selective , so it is nonsense to describe it in that way . |
| 15 | It is nonsense to claim — as one or two Opposition Members have — that councils will not be ready to implement the tax in 1993 . |
| 16 | It is nonsense to close missions so that we can meet the new and welcome demand from the Baltic states and , for example , Phnom Penh . |
| 17 | It is nonsense to suppose that local authorities should be let off the financial hook for flagrant mismanagement of their responsibilities . |
| 18 | It is nonsense to speak of a person inferring what he himself means . |
| 19 | It is nonsense to think in those terms . |
| 20 | The reiver 's last proud defiance has passed into Border history : ‘ It is folly to seek grace at a graceless face ’ . |
| 21 | I … hope that you will not attempt to outbid L[loyd] G[eorge] or the Socialists in a vote-catching programme … it is folly to attempt a competition with irresponsible people , and I believe LG 's proposals have given us an opportunity of attacking , instead of defending , ourselves … . |
| 22 | It is purpose built for use at Point of Sale in a busy retail environment and will give reliable , long lasting operation with the minimum of attention . |
| 23 | It is directory driven so users can customise their network , setting up separate directories for say AutoCAD files and Catia files . |
| 24 | It is self-interest based on a conviction that " my needs are greater than yours " . |
| 25 | It is expenditure incurred under a new contract made when the option is exercised . |
| 26 | Dedicated to St Paul , it is stone built in an early Gothic style . |
| 27 | It is stone vaulted throughout , with massive piers to support the vaults . |
| 28 | Most unusually for this part of the country , it is built of red brick , though the tall chimney added to it is stone faced . |
| 29 | It is not faith going a second mile ; it is faith making its first full step and there is no going back . |
| 30 | it is bom piched |