Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 It 's not really desperately important cos I can do it by using a list rather than a map but it 's just somehow easier to refer
2 This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time .
3 In choices of means , I may pay severely for failing to recognize the equality of personal as of spatial and temporal viewpoints , if for example I lose awareness of the fact that a competitor 's need and determination is as great as mine ; but in choosing between our ends , nothing compels me to feel the pull of his inclination equally with mine , other than a recognition that it is illogical to shut my eyes in one case to what I am forced to acknowledge in the other .
4 A research programme is better than a rival if it is more progressive , the progressive nature of a programme depending on its degree of coherence and the extent to which it has led to successful novel predictions , as discussed in Chapter 7 .
5 Well , if a thesis that it is difficult to make sense of allows a conclusion that is repugnant , then the rational course would seem to be to take this as another reason for distrusting the thesis : not as a reason for admitting the repugnant conclusion .
6 It m probably not as long as a year but it 's quite a while
7 Wearing a different one every time she went out would be only normal , particularly since a sari does not have to be washed as frequently as a dress because it is not worn next to the skin .
8 Optical isomerism results when a structure and it 's mirror image are non-superimposable .
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