Example sentences of "[conj] it is [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Although ‘ laicisation ’ is a process that has become universal in the Western world , it is in North America where it is at its most advanced .
2 Another discourse analyst , providing a second opinion , might report that it is about something else entirely , and a debate would ensue in the discourse analysis literature .
3 The shadow is not over God more than it is over anything else .
4 But I personally think it 's more universal to tune guitars to chords than it is to anything else . ’
5 It is I would suggest much easier to respond to the complaint in the line of service sir than it is in one round more complex technical services with contractors and sub contractors and the like , with whom we 've had to deal , so there is that to be borne in mind as well , erm I think I know about some of the response to be responded to that , but it does generally valuable this talk , this discussion cos it does show the degree of viability of exposing the service to , your making problems of this nature , it immediately challenges people to come back and say what about it , you promised this , you promised that and you 're not performing , this , this is discussion is a live example of the
6 And it is for us surely to open ourselves without prejudice to the shape that it will take in the future .
7 But it is for you already , any fool can see you 're in no shape to continue .
8 ‘ Call it a wedding gift , ’ he advised harshly , ‘ but it is for you alone , not a thing to share with your future husband .
9 The Lewisian thing about the first of his space stories is precisely its blend of literary originality and religious truth ; it is not ‘ theology ’ dressed up as ‘ literature ’ ; rather it makes its best literary effects when it is at its most religious because the religious matter is what most engages the author 's imagination .
10 Because of the priority given to these ‘ fixed costs ’ , mothers typically draw on the household income when it is at its most depleted .
11 It was as difficult for them to develop a public analysis of rape eight years ago as it is for them today publicly to acknowledge the extent of sexual abuse of girls and young women inside and outside the home .
12 Where it breaks down and you get a governing body that is split down the middle , where you get staff who tend to who might tend to go in an opposite way to the head teacher , where you get parents who are asked to make difficult decisions as with an opt out ballot , then I think that you have to look very hard at the way that that school is managed and the way that it 's going in the future , because those are the sort of issues that unless you get those right the future for the school can not be as bright as it is for one where they are working as a team .
13 In their original context both stories had a different significance , but it was as impossible for fourteenth century Christians to experience the Christian revelation in the same way as the first Christians as it is for us today .
14 It is to our benefit , as it is to everyone else 's , that some measure of perspective should be restored .
15 But he said : ‘ Football is as much to do with your mental attitude as it is to anything else ours just is n't right at the moment .
16 As the saying goes , ‘ a woman 's place is in the wrong ’ ; and this is as true of language as it is of anything else .
17 It is explained as much by Aden Arabie 's colonial , third-world dimension , as it is by its lyrically explosive and liberatingly destructive style which undoubtedly held more appeal for Sartre in 1960 than the more prosaic , communist militant style of Les Chiens de garde , with its undertones of Stalinist party dogma .
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