Example sentences of "it is [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is compounded when she is also young and childless . |
| 2 | It is compounded when several people are involved in the aggravated taking of a vehicle — my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden ( Mr. Mills ) said that such people were not content with being in a car but wanted to be in the boot as well — and by the speed and lethal power of the Cosworths and other vehicles which they steal . |
| 3 | While Labour seeks to simply snatch the language of one nation from the Tories , the danger here can only grow and it is compounded because it is by no means clear how far a reconstituted and emphatically ‘ un-loony ’ socialism may go in negotiating its own language of toughness on immigration and nationality , even perhaps on humane socialist repatriation . [ … ] |
| 4 | Since the legislation assumes the existence of the common law background we must first endeavour to ascertain the general principles governing this area of tort and then see shortly how it is affected when there is a trade dispute . |
| 5 | Of course , it is not uncommon for alterations to be made to a side from the time it is announced until the team actually takes the field . |
| 6 | It is defined as where n∼ and n∼ o are the refractive indices of the solution and the solvent and c is the concentration . |
| 7 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 8 | It is disputed whether these onion domes were a development indigenous to the area or whether the idea came from further east , but the former seems more likely on the weight of evidence ; they were being built by the mid-twelfth century here and were designed in a great variety of shapes and in large numbers . . |
| 9 | Everyone agrees that this means both sides must be heard , but it is disputed whether it also means that both sides must have equal time even though the arguments of one side are more complex or require more witnesses than the other . |
| 10 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 11 | It is puzzling when people say I write like this one and that one and all such different kinds of writers and so many of them , and it makes me feel I am nothing in myself . ’ |
| 12 | If it fails to do so it is condemned as being ‘ reformist ’ , or ‘ liberal ’ or even ‘ racist ’ . |
| 13 | Investors do not usually grasp the minutiae of the trading experiences of the businesses in which they invest , but it is unsettling when a company such as Pentos , which has been proclaiming its readiness to do battle with the big boys over the Net Book Agreement , has a financial setback . |
| 14 | This would , in fact , make an ideal introduction to the works , were it not for the fact that the packaging completely misleads the purchaser as to the playing order of the music : it is listed as ( in order ) — but the disc actually plays , so that there 's not a single track which corresponds with the one listed in the sleeve note ! |
| 15 | In our copy of Roget it is listed as follows You can be quite sure that if you examine all these numbered sections you will find every word in the English language that is remotely or closely equivalent to " jargon " . |
| 16 | It is listed as one of the world 's most endangered animals by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature . |
| 17 | It is selected when Escape is tapped when the cursor is in the window . |
| 18 | It is justified if the head of government is challenging something powerful . |
| 19 | We have only shown that it is justified if B and C are . |
| 20 | It is calculated as being the price per 1 nominal at which the bond delivered has a yield to maturity of 9 per cent . |
| 21 | We shall be given all manner of reasons why there should not be a top salary review , or whatever it is called since the former Prime Minister tore up the negotiating arrangements for the civil service . |
| 22 | Please let us know about EVERY class you teach however specialised and whatever it is called unless it is directly resulting from another qualification e.g. if you teach a yoga type class and do not have a yoga qualification , this statistically should be a Medau Breathing and Relaxation class . |
| 23 | " Opticals " like titling mixes and dissolves are then put in hand and added to the " double head " as it is called when vision and sound are still on separate film . |
| 24 | In the Domesday Book it is recorded as Caingeham , and as having a church and a priest . |
| 25 | Although its ultimate destruction has left no trace of the shrine 's location or size in the cathedral , it is recorded as being amply covered in gold and jewels . |
| 26 | Once again , plot is conceived of as compositional process , a bringing-into-being ; in other words it is conceived as something quite different from what one of the novel 's characters describes as a ‘ crappy mystical adventure story ’ . |
| 27 | Consequently , for She may own a Porsche , the following diagram can be proposed : The relation is the same for She may leave tomorrow except that the actualization of the infinitive 's event would be future ( if it is realized at all ) : The role of the modal auxiliaries is thus to specify the kind of potentiality which the potential event expressed by the infinitive has — possibility , probability , necessity , etc. — and the type of coincidence involved here is that between an event conceived as a potentiality and the form of potentiality which it is conceived as having , i.e. between two potentialities . |
| 28 | A little African finch , the cut-throat finch , when it is disturbed while sitting inside its ball-shape nest , gives a bizarre ‘ snake-dance ’ reaction . |
| 29 | Hunting is very complicated and most people do not know about hunting or how it is done so they do n't like it and say that it is cruel . |
| 30 | A common agreement between two or more persons having for its object the death of all of them , whether or not each is to take his own life , but nothing shall be treated as done by him in pursuance of the pact unless it is done while he has the settled intention of dying in pursuance of the pact . |