Example sentences of "it is [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The infra-red remote control is unique to this machine , and the only other way to get into it is via a master key held by the system supervisor . |
| 2 | Er it is er significantly further er via a southern bypass and an inner relief road than it is via a western relief road . |
| 3 | It is since the 1950s that the expansion in education has really accelerated , with a resulting boost to literacy rates . |
| 4 | And it is with every confidence that I tell you I am sure that this young couple will have a very happy marriage , and I would ask you to join me in wishing them both a long , happy , and prosperous future together . |
| 5 | So it is with every one who is born of the Spirit ( pneuma ) ’ ( John 3:8 ) . |
| 6 | It is with no disrespect to her that I give him preference . |
| 7 | From afar it looks like the classical volcanic cone and it is with a mounting sense of excitement that I climb the last section of loose lava gravel and sharp , welded lava rock . |
| 8 | The real interest of the past , he wrote , ‘ lies in the answer to the question , How did the ordinary undistinguished man live ? … and it is with a view to providing posterity with an addition to such all too scanty materials that the papers … have been embodied in permanent form . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It is with a feeling of surprise and wonder , even of awe , that humans become aware of a great intelligence living in the sea ; of marine mammals with a perception greater than that of other animals , more akin to our own , ’ says New Zealander Frank Robson , who has spent many years working with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild . |
| 10 | In the following chapters we shall first look at some of the issues that all bereaved people need to talk about , whether it is with a friend or with the professional worker who specializes in meeting bereaved people . |
| 11 | So it is with a creeping dismay that reports have been greeted about the inevitable changes in his way of life . |
| 12 | When Disllokey nods to me this morning it is with a distant seriousness , as if he is already bracing himself to lose his identity in the harshly impersonal world across the water . |
| 13 | The notion of pastiche is now a guiding thread in critical discourse , to the extent that Palandri 's novel can be put forward as ‘ a disturbing attempt to write a kitsch novel ’ ( De Michelis 1986a ) , and the argument be made — — referring to Piersanti 's Charles — that no novelist born in the 1950s can return to ‘ traditional narrative ’ without being aware that he/she is ‘ holding an old toy which might look fine in an antique shop , or might be an ornament or a collector 's item , but is no good for playing with any more ’ ; if they do use it ( but why should they if it is no use any more ? ) , it is with a mixture of pleasure and melancholy , ‘ like someone repeating a game which once gave pleasure for years and years and now gives none , only the memory of the joy it once gave ’ ( De Michelis 1986b ) . |
| 14 | It is with a huge sigh of relief that Scottish football fans can reflect on this crucial moment . |
| 15 | After all , the country does not go to war all that often , even if it is with a second-rate corned-beef republic . |
| 16 | For women alone , it is not advisable to go sightseeing at night unless it is with a guided tour of nightspots . |
| 17 | Even if the final goal is a paper , as it is with a DTP system , it is important how the paper was produced . |
| 18 | The Rowdies group provided by far the widest range of available roles , and it is with a discussion of these that we start . |
| 19 | WHEN KIERON steps up onto the stage it is with a determination to trip the light fantastic and provide the evening with some of its more mellow moments . |
| 20 | [ Ch 14 ] It is with a more elaborate example of this type of fanciful similitude that the impersonal " Dickens " introduces Mrs Rouncewell : She is a fine old lady , handsome , stately , wonderfully neat , and has such a back , and such a stomacher that if her stays should turn out when she dies to have been a broad old-fashioned family fire-grate , nobody who knows her would have cause to be surprised . |
| 21 | You know the way it is with a thing like that . |
| 22 | It is with a new generation of painters in the late sixth century that red-figure really comes to its own . |
| 23 | Colleagues , it is with a mixture of sadness , disappointment and disbelief that this motion is required to be brought before Congress today . |
| 24 | It is with a feeling of sadness that we consider it necessary to express our reservations about Winnie Mandela 's judgement in relation to the Mandela Football Club . |
| 25 | Where Newco acquires Target , this does not of itself terminate any contract of employment between Target and its employees , but it is with a view to rationalising the business after it has been bought out that Target may decide to terminate certain contracts of employment ; Newco may also be seeking to vary the terms of employment of certain directors and employees . |
| 26 | I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person . |
| 27 | So it is with a good few of the faithful with whom I trod the boards in my schooldays . |
| 28 | It is with a sense of shock and disbelief that I studied the details that the Scottish Arts Council has released concerning its distribution of funds for 1993/94 ( reported , 16 February ) . |
| 29 | It 's best with the , what , the best way I 've seen it is with a numbers disk . |
| 30 | So it is with a young horse : they have to ‘ translate ’ the aids because they do not yet think in the same language as the rider . |