Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] it is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I survey it from my bedroom window and everywhere it is quite at home . |
| 2 | But of course the water is not heaped up into a cube and so it is perhaps more appropriate , though less convenient , to think of this mass of salt water in its actual context — as a veneer-thin skin which lurks in those troughs and valleys which fall below the mean circumference of the earth 's planetary spheroid . |
| 3 | Maggie Wheeler makes her guests feel entirely at home and certainly it is very easy to relax in this ‘ no rules ’ atmosphere , where you can enjoy meeting the other guests around the kitchen table in an informal atmosphere with Maggie taking the time to help you plan your itinerary . |
| 4 | It is a large country with a small population and so it is very easy to get lost . |
| 5 | The British population of some 52,000 is 65 per cent of the world population and so it is very important that these numbers are protected . |
| 6 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 7 | It is only in the last thirty-five years that animals had been allowed to have ‘ mental ’ processes other than learning and so it is only in that time that psychologists have developed the behavioural tests to investigate them . |
| 8 | It is the only genre that was born and nourished in a new era of world history and therefore it is deeply akin to that era , whereas the other major genres entered that era as already fixed forms , as an inheritance , and only now are they adapting themselves — some better , some worse — to the new conditions of their existence . |
| 9 | Most hotels have periods of high activity and low activity and therefore it is quite common practice to organise the duty rotas for certain members of staff on a ‘ split duty ’ basis . |
| 10 | However , because the reptation is assumed to occur by migration of a segmental kink along the chain , the force needed to do this is applied one segment at a time and so it is more appropriate to use the frictional factor per segment ζ . |