Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adj] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it is rather difficult to know whether this is support for Krashen 's proposal or not , but it certainly implies the separation of the process of meaning construction from the determination of final output form . |
| 2 | Apart from the problems of precisely delimiting areas that are experiencing desertification , it is equally difficult to determine whether or not rates of desertification are increasing . |
| 3 | It is simply necessary to ask whether the matter the whether the land is open land or not open land . |
| 4 | It also has a strong instrumental element , in the sense that it is most likely to happen when it is economically advantageous . |
| 5 | It is most likely to occur when the bird of prey is behaving in an odd way . |
| 6 | Inspection of Tei and Owen 's Tables I and 3 reveals that the laterality effect was greater for " same " trials but it is theoretically important to know whether there was any significant interaction between stimulus type and visual hemifield . |
| 7 | It is here irrelevant to decide whether the Roman generals learnt how to cry from their Hellenistic opposite numbers just as they learnt from them how to write autobiographical letters on their victories . |
| 8 | So it is clearly right to argue as Dahrendorf does that the emergence of an underclass excluded apparently permanently from dominant economic life is a potent condition of rising crime . |
| 9 | If this indeed is the pattern , it is clearly important to know whether or not regulation is effective in maintaining standards and what its impact is on the supply of services . |
| 10 | It is also crucial to ask whether the media are able to cope with this growth in information and whether they can do anything to counter the efforts of governments to manipulate it for their own ends . |
| 11 | It is also easy to manage when you are working . |
| 12 | Clearly , however , even if a company can freely establish a branch in a host member state it is also necessary to decide whether the conduct of that branch 's business should be regulated by the home member state or the host member state . |
| 13 | If for many contract computer staff their employment is more permanent than temporary , it is also pertinent to ask whether it is more safe than precarious . |
| 14 | It is also important to decide whether the particular issue warrants bringing out all the big guns . |
| 15 | It is also important to recognise because apparently harmless discussion about ‘ wants ’ can restimulate unconscious feelings to the surprise and distress of both elder and practitioner — ‘ it brings it all back ’ . |
| 16 | It is also difficult to say whether a change at the top would affect the Direction des Musées de France at the heart of the Ministry of Culture . |
| 17 | It is also difficult to establish when the damage occurred . |
| 18 | Frequently a horse that habitually rears when it is mounted is also likely to rear every time it feels anxious , such as when it is passed by a truck on the road or it sees a monster ; but it is especially likely to rear when it is asked to stand still . |
| 19 | It is obviously important to know whether the car has been stolen or whether the driver has a criminal record . |
| 20 | The Minor Pentatonic scale is a five note scale and can be played over a m7 chord ; on bass it is very easy to play because the notes lie right under the fingers … |
| 21 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 22 | Have your detective say it is very important to tell whether something is or is not done in a certain way ; then show that thing being done in either of the ways mentioned ; but immediately before that happens put in , quite boldly , what it is you want to slip past your reader . |
| 23 | It is very difficult to ascertain whether the many companies which use ROI do use it in the way proposed . |
| 24 | Firstly , before documents are available which give a general comparison and assessment at one date across an area ( like Domesday Book or a medieval Lay Subsidy ) it is very difficult to know whether all the sites we are comparing as part of our settlement pattern are contemporary . |
| 25 | It is virtually impossible to prove because guilty brokers tend to ‘ churn ’ the portfolios of inexperienced clients . |
| 26 | It is usually good to speak when the audience is bored . |
| 27 | Furthermore , it is usually impossible to say whether the effects of a lesion in one hemisphere , in terms of loss or impairment of a particular function , follow from the destruction of the true neural locus of that function , or instead reflect the influence of abnormal tissue on other brain areas that actually subserve the function in question . |
| 28 | As the ESR reflects changes in many serum proteins , some of which have long half lives , it is often slow to alter when there are major clinical changes . |
| 29 | It is often difficult to determine whether the SPR is reporting a failure in the software , a misunderstanding , or a failure in delivered instructions . |
| 30 | It is often difficult to determine whether the SPR is reporting a failure in the software , a misunderstanding , or a failure in delivered instructions . |