Example sentences of "it [verb] are [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological .
2 And sadly , many of the people it kills are in their middle years .
3 It welcomes my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's brilliant Budget for its changes in the uniform business rate , which it says are of enormous help to business , a great deal of assistance to growing firms and just what businesses have requested .
4 Lord MacMillan in Perry v Astor ( 1935 ) 19 TC 255 at p289 stated : The Section does not declare that the dispositions with which it deals are to be treated as non-existent in a question between the maker of the disposition and the Inland Revenue .
5 Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates .
6 At present , however , it is worth observing that the degree of foregrounding in this passage , and the interpretative process it elicits are of a kind more readily associated with poetry than with prose .
7 By 1991 , those it approves are to be designated National Vocational Qualifications ( NVQ ) , and accorded one of four levels : Basic , Standard , Advanced and Higher .
8 The CNAA , in its desire to ensure that the courses which it validates are of a sufficiently high standard , has necessarily concerned itself with the resources and ethos of institutions as a whole and has not hesitated to pass judgment on them , going , some would argue , beyond the responsibilities laid upon it by its Royal Charter .
9 It is financed by the film industry , and will only grant certificates to movies which it considers are within the limits of public acceptability .
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