Example sentences of "it is [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nokia Oy , Helsinki says that it is increase its capital base with an international placing of about $100m of new preference shares ; no details yet . |
| 2 | Although that has meant that not much can be done , in principle it is a good idea in that it forces underwater sites to compete with land sites for funding , and tends to keep the attention on the point that it is archaeology we are talking about . |
| 3 | If HaL meets its reported dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun which expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
| 4 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 5 | In Barker 's words , ‘ it is Mill who serves , in the years between 1848 and 1880 , as the bridge from laissez-faire to the idea of social readjustment by the State , and from political Radicalism to economic Socialism ’ . |
| 6 | Yet it is sacrifice which is offered in delight . |
| 7 | But they hold it is witchcraft which singled out this particular victim for attack and made him the target of the animal 's assault . |
| 8 | This is humanity 's oft-repeated experience , and in the long run it is experience which really teaches , and no amount of scriptural citation of divinely allocated land will ever alter that . |
| 9 | More importantly , the company 's development people have to be able to handle simultaneously a wide range of projects , often at different stages ( feasibility , formulation development , process scale-up ) and generally on different major compounds ; it is experience which develops both scientific competence and real commercial awareness . |
| 10 | How can man make history if at the same time it is history which makes him ? |
| 11 | ( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established . |
| 12 | It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations . |
| 13 | It is contract it 's a monthly contract you work for three weeks for one pound sixteen shillings and at the end of the month they count all the slates you 've done during the month . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) … a doctor shall be under no obligation to give treatment personally if such reasonable steps as are appropriate are taken to ensure continuity of treatment , and treatment may be given — ( a ) by another doctor acting as a deputy … ( b ) if it is treatment which it is clinically reasonable in the circumstances to delegate , by a person whom the doctor had authorised and who is competent to carry out such treatment . ’ |
| 15 | It is difficult to research as it is behaviour which takes place in a domestic setting involving powerless people . |
| 16 | ‘ It is prosperity which creates the technology that can keep the earth healthy . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It is money which belonged to my father . |
| 18 | Just as Wernicke 's aphasia is in some sense the opposite of Broca 's aphasia , so transcortical aphasia is in some sense the opposite of conduction aphasia , because in transcortical aphasia it is repetition which is the best -preserved of the patient 's linguistic abilities , with the patient being extremely poor at understanding speech . |
| 19 | Or perhaps it is Claudine you do not like ? ’ |
| 20 | In 1983 gas , coal and nuclear power accounted for 16% , 9% and 1% respectively of energy demand and it is gas which is establishing itself as the most significant oil alternative . |
| 21 | I could have done with a little more natural variation in the sound , but seeing that all Kirk is probably going to do with it is leave it on the neck pickup , knock all the middle off at the amp and turn it up to an excruciating volume , it does n't have to be the most variable guitar in the world . |
| 22 | It is conduct which in these circumstances falls to be dealt with in the trial itself by judicial control upon admissibility of evidence , the judicial power to direct a verdict of not guilty , usually at the close of the prosecution 's case , or by the jury taking account of it in evaluating the evidence before them . |
| 23 | ‘ It is life itself we must battle to preserve , ’ said Mrs Thatcher in her speech to the United Nations in New York . |
| 24 | Since it is replication we are interested in , the first thing we must know is , can crystals replicate their structure ? |
| 25 | It is the projected activities , the group under E and F , which will concern us in this section , as we shall see that it is projection which protects the participants . |
| 26 | It is humanity itself which must establish that which it wants to be right , and that which it wants to be wrong . |
| 27 | But it is bait which hit back with bullets . |
| 28 | However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head . |
| 29 | This may sound complicated , but rest assured , that it is simplicity itself . |
| 30 | Moreover , once the precise mathematical form of f(U) has been unearthed by econometric testing , it is simplicity itself to arrive at an estimate of U * ; — one has merely to evaluate the root of . |