Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [subord] it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The migration reversal is as pervasive across the socio-demographic characteristics of movers as it is across regions . |
| 2 | Also , the concept of limited liability in the UK is much more protective of proprietors than it is in the Code Napoleon countries , where , for example , net worth deficiencies have to be made good immediately , otherwise the company must cease trading . |
| 3 | But alcoholism is a lesser occupational hazard amongst academics than it is amongst , say , media people , advertising agents or lawyers . |
| 4 | ‘ As it is with guns so it is with any lethal weapon . |
| 5 | Where there is no chronic medical problem , poor attendance is less of a problem with executives than it is with junior employees . |
| 6 | Despite these traditions , analysis of student results does not indicate that it is more difficult to gain a first in arts than it is in science subjects . |
| 7 | Sussman and McNeilage ( 1975a ) argued that whereas receptive aspects of language are lateralised to the left hemisphere , production of language is not so clearly lateralised in stutterers as it is in normals . |
| 8 | But both health authorities issued a warning that the charter needs support from patients if it is to be a success . |
| 9 | But both health authorities issued a warning that the charter needs support from patients if it is to be a success . |
| 10 | It has been argued that differentiation in refugia is less marked in trees than it is in insects or birds , because of their different life spans , but such theory provides an explanation for the now sympatric occurrence of 12 species of Eschweilera ( Lecythidaceae ) near Manaus . |
| 11 | Lord Scarman has said of inner city riots that ‘ public disorder usually arises out of a sense of injustice , ( Scarman , 1986 : xiii ) , and as the Woolf report recognized , this is as true in prisons as it is in the inner city . |
| 12 | Is n't it , but you do n't you think that 's more so for females than it is for males , the fact that it is such a dirty thing that , that applies more to females than it does , to males ? |
| 13 | The ADC felt that this was ironic , given that a property has to be close to amenities if it is to be excluded from the Right to Buy ; |
| 14 | " Senga , you will not talk to strangers unless it is within my presence . |
| 15 | But I personally think it 's more universal to tune guitars to chords than it is to anything else . ’ |
| 16 | As Okely ( 1987 : 67 ) observes , the urge to create publications is not always as crucial to others as it is to the academic . |
| 17 | ‘ I give my personal guarantee that this production of Swan Lake will be as magical for children as it is for adults , ’ he wrote . |
| 18 | erm I find I 'm not sure that any of us can erm cope with what 's going on at the moment in the Gulf without having just ways of distracting ourselves , erm and I think that perhaps might be more of a problem for adults than it is for children , in the sense that erm most of us have access to more information than most children do erm and more information about what death means , and what suffering means , and what pain means , than erm most children who have been brought up in this country . |
| 19 | Is the appeal of physics the same for women as it is for men ? |
| 20 | Balance is difficult to define in simple terms and requires great sensitivity by journalists if it is to be achieved . |
| 21 | The female form — or imagery directly related to the female anatomy — is therefore as ubiquitous in Surrealist paintings by women as it is in those by men . |