Example sentences of "[adj] it is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | N nowadays I hear erm or the lads who have been they go out They 've been working with contractor and they say how different it is when your mother was alive , everybody who came here they they used to join us for their dinner . |
| 2 | How different it is when someone , perhaps someone close to us , perhaps someone we have never met , helps us to view the world through different eyes . |
| 3 | Having been through the spate of using a clapped out vacuum cleaner that did n't do its job , and how different it is now |
| 4 | With rules generally being so rigid it is hardly surprising that diets , and the good intentions that go with them , quickly get left behind . |
| 5 | Considerable effort goes into the organisation of the operations and if things go wrong it is n't their fault . |
| 6 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 7 | Finally , if levels are still high it is probably because the target is too difficult and an intermediate , less difficult , target must be inserted and overcome first . |
| 8 | Unless there are political brownie points from on high it is most unlikely you will receive assistance . |
| 9 | Now I 'm so high it is just amazing . |
| 10 | Barro 's argument for the inclusion of this variable is that if government expenditure is equal to its normal level , it will tend to be financed by orthodox taxation , but if it is , say , abnormally high it is more likely to be financed by measures which increase the rate of monetary growth . |
| 11 | Mourners claim grass is so high it is now hiding relatives ' gravestones |
| 12 | It brews pure , unadulterated ‘ Real Ale ’ , which is so popular it is now even finding its way abroad . |
| 13 | Its representatives have been advised by EC ministers that although the ban is scientifically unsustainable it is politically impossible to remove . |
| 14 | The Government always says how careful it is not to waste taxpayers ' money . |
| 15 | Request : Joan Hammell , his secretary , wrote to say : ‘ I am afraid it is not going to prove possible for Mr Kinnock to make a contribution as much as he would love to . |
| 16 | ‘ I think there 's something I ought to say but I 'm afraid it is n't , well , gentlemanly . ’ |
| 17 | ROS : I 'm afraid it is n't your day . |
| 18 | I 'm afraid it is n't suitable for the competition , Timothy . " |
| 19 | ‘ I should think that 's plenty of time , but if you were afraid it is n't you could have woken me earlier . ’ |
| 20 | Well , much as I 'd love to stay on here , I 'm afraid it is n't going to be feasible . |
| 21 | It is a place of calm and classical beauty : I am afraid it is exactly the sort of place for which one must long most desperately when out of Greece . |
| 22 | A. If your Temporales are still about the same size they I am afraid it is extremely likely that you have two of the same sex , as size is a major sexual difference in this species , with males around 50 per cent bigger in all directions than females . |
| 23 | ‘ I am afraid it is too late for that , ’ Mr Aycliffe said with a faint smile . |
| 24 | A There are a lot of Tanganyikan cichlids you can keep in your tank , but I am afraid it is only large enough for you to keep a pair of a single species . |
| 25 | If that makes the agent sound unpleasant it is only because you are still seeing the profession through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 26 | Among the Buid , momentary expressions of anger may be viewed in the first instance as indicative of a momentary desire to harm another , but if such conduct becomes persistent or habitual it is almost always reinterpreted as being caused by hostile mystical forces and thus as not being under the deliberate control of the individual . |
| 27 | If the proposition is doubtful it is yet more evidence of the all-pervading influence of the public school ethic in refugee work . |
| 28 | Agfa 's Rodinal falls into this category , although at 100 years old it is positively ancient and not modern , but it nevertheless has many qualities that other modern developers have only just caught up with . |
| 29 | Finding a publisher is hard for all writers and we know from the letters and diaries of writers as important as Gerard Manley Hopkins , Joseph Conrad and Hermann Melville how painful it is when the writing will not come . |
| 30 | While it is not physically painful it is certainly psychologically aversive . |