Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] it [is] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should never be forgotten that it is not only by using trusts or companies in tax havens that fiscal advantages may be obtained . |
| 2 | Laing could have added that it is also now a company that employs tens of thousands of people and produces a phenomenal amount of food snacks . |
| 3 | David Smith a bookie says there 's money to be won and it 's just as well he managed to eat when he was a youngster … |
| 4 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 5 | AIDS causing the death of the young has highlighted that it is not only the elderly who wish to make provision against an artificially prolonged end . |
| 6 | It was not a sway to worry Stevely , for he has always reckoned that it is very much easier to work on a swaying swing than one which is inhibited . |
| 7 | Life can proceed with deceptive ease on the basis of a faith which was once vital but has become so taken for granted that it is no longer authentic . |
| 8 | Granted that it is experimentally quite simple to make small localized holes in the brain without causing widespread damage , it should be easy to test the claims for any such region of being ‘ the ’ site of memory for any particular piece of behaviour . |
| 9 | The main advantage of this type of support is that it keeps the joint warm , but it has to be said that it is not really suitable for more recent or severe injuries . |
| 10 | It is often said that it is not very easy to turn an omelette back into eggs . |
| 11 | Inevitably it will be said that it is too soon for such syntheses . |
| 12 | It still represents a cost to the Exchequer and a loss of potential output , but it can be argued that it is not particularly distressing to the people concerned and , for the economy as a whole , it may actually result in a more efficient use of labour : this is because high short-run unemployment may be a reflection of greater mobility of labour between jobs and areas and consequently may result in the labour force being more suitably and productively employed . |
| 13 | This chapter has argued that it is not only national population size , composition and behaviour that matter but also their changing patterns across regional and urban systems . |
| 14 | Although it could be argued that it is not really chronology continuing ( as suggested by the chapter title ) because there had been insufficient time specification before 1950 , the sequence of this chapter proceeds from the basic foundations , to the alternative models , to sea level changes , Quaternary geography and hence to the prospect of environmental change . |
| 15 | For example , some sociologists have argued that it is no longer correct to regard Western industrial society , particularly the USA , as being stratified in terms of a class system . |
| 16 | Given that it is based on a model which examined variation among electoral wards within only a few regions it could be argued that it is more validly applied at a local level . |
| 17 | The over-ridingly important point is made that it is not so much which subject is being learned , but rather how it is being learned . |
| 18 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 19 | If a point is missed because it is too deeply embedded in its cultural setting in one place , it stands out prominently and unequivocally in another . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State 's authority on this matter has been accepted , not out of docility or in the belief that the Secretary of State for Scotland is infallible in curriculum matters : it has been accepted because it is very obviously based on a clear national consensus . |
| 21 | The importance of the family for the prevention of delinquent behaviour was also recognized and it is now widely accepted that the delinquent child and his or her family are in need of the same kind of attention as the deprived child and his or her family . |
| 22 | If that fails to dissuade you , you will be told that it is not very nice : it is frightening and ghoulish . |
| 23 | Scholars of Confucianism are agreed that it is not so much a religion as a guide to a system of political organisation , and as time went on , it too fell victim to divisions and disputes . |
| 24 | Analysis has shown that it is not just the recipe for the pickling solution which affects the colour but , more fundamentally , low levels of alloying elements added to the copper . |
| 25 | Experience has shown that it is not enough to train PHCNs for a year and then send to isolated rural clinics . |
| 26 | The name reflects the fact that the animal 's horns and head resemble the Arabian oryx , but DNA analysis has shown that it is most closely related to the oxen family . |
| 27 | Although olsalazine was the most potent inhibitor , in vivo measurements have shown that it is almost completely metabolised in the colonic lumen . |
| 28 | In that situation variety of activity is needed and it is also often possible to allocate times when students can choose between several options . |
| 29 | ‘ And last , Harley 's royalty is already agreed and it 's far too low . |
| 30 | The distinction between sheep of hardy and other breeds should be abolished because it is only very loosely related to degree of handicap . |