Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] it [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it would n't be the po most popular it 's because of |
| 2 | The less expected a choice , the more marked it is and the more meaning it carries ; the more expected , the less marked it is and the less significance it will have . |
| 3 | The more people get used to prodding , weighing and evaluating new planning proposals , the less likely it is that the Hammersmith effect will spread further . |
| 4 | So the more conscious we are the less likely it is that our activities become habitual . |
| 5 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 6 | The more children there are in a family the less likely it is that the younger child will have eating difficulties . |
| 7 | The more comparable writers we study , the less likely it is that they are out of step with the norm of the language rather than Swift . |
| 8 | The larger the employer , the less likely it is that there will be an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 9 | The less constrained the genre , primarily interactional ‘ chat ’ , for example , the less likely it is that we can confidently state norms of expectation which will generalise even over the experience of the English-speaking population . |
| 10 | The further in-service training occurs , literally and metaphorically , from their school base the less likely it is that teachers will be able to sustain personal changes and motivation for innovation . |
| 11 | If I look so bad it 's because I thought I had lost you . |
| 12 | Not sure it is cos it 's baking . |
| 13 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 14 | The less expected a choice , the more marked it is and the more meaning it carries ; the more expected , the less marked it is and the less significance it will have . |
| 15 | The deeper down a tunnel goes the more dangerous it is and the more likely it is to be inhabited by some terrible monster . |
| 16 | The more firmly he tells them and the country that , as Prime Minister , he and not they will rule , the more likely it is that he will eventually reach Downing Street . |
| 17 | The more serious the violation by the police and the less serious the charge the more likely it is that the evidence will be inadmissible , though there are occasions in Scotland where crucial evidence has been struck out in serious cases which include murder . |
| 18 | The greater , therefore , is the information provider 's knowledge and understanding of those specific tasks and contexts , the more likely it is that the information provided will be valued and used . |
| 19 | The more people have access to the telephone , the more likely it is that you will encounter unskilled telephone users . |
| 20 | Second , most workers believe that the more time they spend searching for a job , the more likely it is that they will obtain one which meets their requirements , particularly in so far as the wage rate and working conditions are concerned . |
| 21 | Her theory is that the more that control is personalised , the more likely it is that there will be friction between management and the workforce , but that continuous-process plants , because they are so highly automated , have unified impersonal control systems which minimise conflict and lead to more satisfying working conditions . |
| 22 | Rather , all items should be recognised where a sufficiently reliable measure can be obtained , although the more likely it is that an item will have an outcome of zero , the lower its recognised amount will be . |
| 23 | The smaller the number of large firms in an industry , ie the more concentrated it is , the more likely it is that the competitive process will be interfered with . |
| 24 | However , the longer you are infected and the weaker your immune system becomes , the more likely it is that you may become ill . |
| 25 | Ironically , the more striking and distinctive objects are , the more likely it is that they will have been stolen and therefore absent from the archaeological record . |
| 26 | Crimes of violence , for example , are by and large one poor person hitting another poor person — and in almost half these instances it is a man hitting his wife or lover … the more vulnerable a person is economically and socially the more likely it is that both working class and white-collar crime will occur against them ( Matthews and Young , 1986 , p. 23 ) . |
| 27 | The more we anticipate the fear reaction the more likely it is that it will occur . |
| 28 | It is possible to say on the basis of these figures that the higher the specification , the more likely it is that the housewife will be satisfied . |
| 29 | The more partners a man has had , the more likely it is that he will entertain fantasies about people with whom he has not yet had a sexual relationship . |
| 30 | The more serious the incident , the more likely it is that a judge 's professional neutrality and independence , as well as his legal training in taking evidence and establishing the facts , will be sought to command public confidence . |