Example sentences of "and [conj] it is [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This possibility needs consideration where the man was well known to the woman and where it is clear that she was not intimidated . ’ |
| 2 | It considers that early implementation-would not add greatly to the costs of preparation of financial statements and that it is probable that such costs would be exceeded by the benefits to users . |
| 3 | But my experiences in Guatemala , where the government has murdered tens of thousands for taking the tiniest steps towards development , have convinced me that non-violence does not always work , and that it is arrogant and dangerous to insist on such methods . |
| 4 | This also states that the individuals concerned must be in an intense relationship and that it is impossible or very difficult for the victim to ‘ escape from the field ’ . |
| 5 | We can now say that the meaning of an individual word is valuational to the extent that its prime role is to make the statements in which it occurs express certain attitudes , and that it is descriptive if its prime role is to specify the content either of the belief or of the attitude which sentences in which it occurs express . |
| 6 | Is the Home Office alleging or claiming that an emergency has arisen since the Conservative party conference , that the Bill must be completed in one day and that it is inconceivable that it could be improved in Committee ? |
| 7 | Please remember that , as Midland Lifetime is a unit-linked plan , the price of units can go down as well as up , and that it is possible that their value may fall below the amount originally invested . |
| 8 | The article states : ’ estimates of the project 's cost have escalated from £457 million to £1.4 billion ’ — the figure mentioned by my hon. Friend — and that it is possible that the scheme will not go ahead . |
| 9 | Does my hon. Friend agree that many pensioners have built up savings throughout their lives , partly from income and , occasionally , from redundancy payments , and that it is rare that that income from savings is unearned ? |
| 10 | These views will shock bourgeois critics who proclaim that propaganda does not have any artistic value , and that it is self-evident that Art should be impartial . |
| 11 | Does my hon. Friend agree that many leaders of local industry are giving their time and experience to ensure the great success of TECs all over the United Kingdom and that it is imperative that we , the Government , ensure that they are properly funded ? |
| 12 | But the notion that it is one of the rights of man to spend a fortnight , or a month , at Margate , or on the riviera , or in Santander , or Florida ; and that it is wrong and immoral and damaging to health to prevent it — this is modern . |
| 13 | The French pursued him , however , and although it is doubtful whether the prince intended to force them to fight it became clear that a battle could not be avoided . |
| 14 | Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later . |
| 15 | And although it is true that Wagner could , if required , have figured under various of their headings , it seems that the decision to lay any emphasis on the relevance of Wagner 's work to his own ideas represented a further and final development . |
| 16 | Theodore 's reconciliation with Wilfrid took place in the context of Caedwalla 's dramatic ascendancy in southern England and if it is true that he expressed the wish that Wilfrid succeed him at Canterbury ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) this may have been in recognition of Caedwalla 's new regime with which Wilfrid was associated . |
| 17 | If this is indeed so , and if it is true that the latency period is in decline as an important cultural phenomenon , then it seems difficult not to conclude that in some very significant respects modern Western child-rearing practices are approximating more to those of pre-Neolithic , pre-agricultural societies like those of the Australian aborigines than to modern industrial ones . |
| 18 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 19 | And if it is clear that they have exercised their right of choice , problems can still arise in determining what precisely they have chosen . |
| 20 | But until industry giants — and key strategic partners — Microsoft Corp and Novell join the alliance , and until it is satisfied that its customer demand is sufficient Hewlett is unlikely to become closely involved in the initiative . |
| 21 | It is very important that a peace-keeping force should not be sent to Yugoslavia until there is a peace to keep , and until it is clear that all the warring parties both invite and allow that peace-keeping force to operate . |
| 22 | The principal difficulty is that it is quite clear that the texts of the classical jurists have not been left as they were written ; and since it is clear that Justinian was keen on enforcement in all circumstances , it is hard to decide whether we should take all reference to it to be a product of his ardour , or the more extreme cases of public interest to be acceptable classical examples . |
| 23 | Both are limiting laws , valid only for small strains or rates of strain , and while it is essential that conditions involving large stresses , leading to eventual mechanical failure , be studied , it is also important to examine the response to small mechanical stresses . |
| 24 | The greater landowners would also employ other gentlemen servants in the management of their estates in the early eighteenth century , some of whom might be freeholders , and all of whom would have connections with the voting freeholders , and while it is true that some of these appointments were poorly paid , one has to bear in mind the comparative poverty of so many of the Scottish gentry in terms of money income . |
| 25 | We have already mentioned that strikes need not be damaging to individual firms ; and while it is true that the economy as a whole can be damaged by certain groups of workers ( eg. power workers , miners and transport workers ) , relatively few groups actually have this kind of muscle . |
| 26 | That is not the case , and while it is true that deaf people from different countries can converse with each other better than hearing folk , they all have their own signs and structure . |
| 27 | For many , ‘ law ’ and ‘ order ’ refer to the ideal of legality ( or ‘ the rule of law ’ ) — and while it is clear that this does not refer to an uncontroversial notion , it is arguable that most people would agree on certain core features of the rule of law : a congruence of official action with a previously declared rule so as to preserve individual autonomy and freedom from arbitrary state power , and a notion of equal treatment of individuals in the eye of the law . |
| 28 | The rotating particles are videoed and each frame processed by computer to determine whether and in what quantities the target is present ; and whether it is alive or dead . |
| 29 | 100mm/4in ) and whether it is complete and well fitted . |
| 30 | Both these cases , while they are addressed to the distinct issues of whether history is accidental or planned , and whether it is accidental or law-governed , exemplify a widespread failure to engage with the problem of holism . |