Example sentences of "it is [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under section 518 of the Companies Act 1985 if you are owed £750 or more by a company and it is overdue you can serve that company with a notice requesting payment within 21 days . |
| 2 | If the aggregate demand shock is positive , then real output will rise above its natural level ; if it is negative it will fall below it . |
| 3 | A pilot scheme is operating in the north-east of England and if it is successful it could be introduced to Ulster . |
| 4 | If it is good one , you can go straight ahead and use it . |
| 5 | By the same token , if it is good you only have to wait five minutes and it will get worse . |
| 6 | For one thing , the attitudinist view escapes an objection to subjectivism made by Moore that if when I say an action is bad I report my negative feelings towards it , and when you say it is good you report your positive feelings towards it , then there is no disagreement between us ( since we will probably both agree that the other has the feelings he reports ) which Moore thought an absurdity . |
| 7 | If it is diatonic we may never need to modulate at all . |
| 8 | Because Linnaeus worked in western Europe , it tends to be the European form which is seen as typical in this sense ; and of course it is accidental which species in a group happens to be first described and hence seen as typical . |
| 9 | The East Germans have enough to think about without troubling themselves about tennis , but it is odd they do not have a single international player of note , bearing in mind the success of Czechoslovakia and the involvement of other Eastern bloc countries . |
| 10 | If they are a hit , to use a word perhaps not of the big band era , it is probable they will be booked monthly . |
| 11 | It is probable they will never go away now . |
| 12 | As to Mrs. Leapor 's dramatic writings , it would not be overrating their merit to say that much worse plays have succeeded on the stage : yet it is probable her Unhappy Father would not have pleased in the acting . |
| 13 | Accordingly , on 12 June 1940 Lord Woolton , Minister of Food , despatched a memorandum to the Food Policy Committee of the War Cabinet in which he identified three groups in the population to whom food distribution should be improved : workers in factories ( ‘ if we are to obtain the maximum production over a long period of time from them ’ ) , people on low incomes and ‘ children of school age and under and nursing mothers whom , on grounds both of humanity and of racial preservation , it is essential we should protect against malnutrition ’ . |
| 14 | One can look back in eighty seven when we had that terrible storm and they said well once in a hundred years and then we had a storm very similar I think it is essential we look |
| 15 | I will be surprised if more than two or three players will be able to perform to the standard required in a 42-match programme , so it is essential we have a strong squad . ’ |
| 16 | It is essential we address this in a very short time scale . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It is essential we catch the person who committed these serious crimes , ’ he said . |
| 18 | It is essential you are registered with a GP , who needs to have your latest address . |
| 19 | You will no doubt appreciate that letting property today is very complex and governed by so much legislation that it is essential you enjoy a competent Managing Agent . |
| 20 | It is essential you are registered with a GP , who needs to have your latest address . |
| 21 | It is essential his routine is not affected . ’ |
| 22 | It is uncertain which of these two types of life-history is primitive . |
| 23 | Since it is difficult to predict how rainfall will alter , it is uncertain which countries will benefit and which will suffer . |
| 24 | The Palace awarded Jimmy a Benefit in 1914–15 ( along with Harry Hanger and Bob Spottiswood ) , but unfortunately the designated local derby against Croydon Common had to be deferred until we were playing at Herne Hill , and it is uncertain what arrangements were made on the players ’ behalf . |
| 25 | With the rules guaranteeing one party a clear majority , it is uncertain what any minority voices will be worth . |
| 26 | As Orcs keep few records of any kind it is uncertain what happened to Gorbad . |
| 27 | While it is possible that the missionary who baptized in the River Glen was the Briton , Rhun , and that Bede was mistaken when he located Paulinus at Yeavering , the statement about Rhun in the Historia Brittonum , inserted as it is in a somewhat garbled account seemingly extrapolated from the Ecclesiastical History , can not be regarded as undoubtedly signifying this and it is uncertain what weight can be attached to it . |
| 28 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 29 | ( It is uncertain what properly conducted games are : what about a wall of death ? ) ( b ) The actual infliction of unlawful force on another person " : Robert Goff J in Collins v Wilcock , above . |
| 30 | He says ; Up and downstairs it is terrible I have to have two bars to pull me up and some people have to change to flats . |