Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] is [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is because a predator is able to find and eat relatively large numbers of aposematic prey in a short space of time , and that the high initial rate of feeding produces a more powerful reinforcement than a greater number of prey eaten over a longer period . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps it is because the nose is the first part of you to come forward . |
| 3 | Perhaps this is because they really are wanting or perhaps it is because the professional refuses to take on a role that the parents want but that he or she thinks unsuitable . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is because the parts have rhythmic cohesion and add up to profound harmony — both factors being absent or vague in the Dallapiccola : |
| 5 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 6 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
| 7 | So it is that the crossing is made without further ado , ‘ opposite Jericho ’ ( 3.16 ) . |
| 8 | Sometimes the newcomers have settled in without doing the original inhabitants any great harm — and so it is that the rabbit and the fallow deer have become accepted additions to Britain 's fauna . |
| 9 | So it is that the new churches are bound to be and look different to the old . |
| 10 | So it is that the prospects for four political-reform bills are suddenly looking good . |
| 11 | So it is that the fetish of masculinity is fashioned in men-only milieus — we look to footballers , boxers , soldiers and miners to find our real men . |
| 12 | By his intimate connection with the greatest men of the day in the medical profession , he obtained for his pupils the privilege of their teaching free of expense , and thus it is that a considerable number in the ranks of our profession are pupils of Abernethy , Astley Cooper , Charles Bell , Brodie , Faraday and Brand . |
| 13 | Thus it is that the new 3-series gets a modest extra inch of legroom and stays conspicuously smaller than the far from roomy 5-series . |
| 14 | Thus it is that the Masters and Augusta are always spoken of in reverential tones , each contestant being made to feel that he is walking on hallowed ground in close communion with the saints of the game . |
| 15 | Thus it is that the Tamar , beautiful as the nymph whose name she bears , winds her way from the rugged north coast between the hills , to be joined by the Tavy , flowing from Dartmoor to join her for the last few miles to the sea , while the luckless Torridge flows ever northward in vain pursuit of Tamara 's beauty . |
| 16 | Thus it is that the evolutionary process itself has provided mankind with the means to produce that first vital element in the search for a ‘ god ’ — a first definition of ‘ goodness ’ . |
| 17 | Thus it is that the extraction of the origin of the first fragment of ‘ goodness ’ and the indelibly labelling of it as such , led to the creation of an entity with a presumed existence and endowed by mankind with the power to hold inviolate the human decisions on ‘ goodness ’ — which will continue to be taken for as long as life continues . |
| 18 | Thus it is that the company is halving its prices , making it clear that the competition with NT will be serious . |
| 19 | It is a factor that Mr Crosby recognises : ‘ Tactics can win you these games , but more often than not it is whether the players have the experience and the bottle . ’ |
| 20 | Partly it is because the courts have been dealing with greater numbers of offenders . |
| 21 | If there is one overriding message that has been reinforced by the experience so far it is that the most productive approach is one that flows from an attitude of , and a commitment to , continuous improvement . |
| 22 | It 's gone on , well it is if the sun 's out , and you know if the sun 's out . |
| 23 | Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince . |
| 24 | James 's aim is the psychological one of explaining how it is that a person is able to locate a stimulus on the surface of his body . |
| 25 | We have to produce some account of how it is that a belief can achieve this status and play this special role . |
| 26 | It is not a new idea , and it is the only demand around which all women can unite , the demand which makes explicit how it is that the working class is divided between the waged and the unwaged . |
| 27 | I wonder just how it is that the Daily Sport can advertise and sell Love Hearts , while youths who get caught selling counterfeit Es get arrested and charged with deception or ‘ going equipped to cheat ’ ? |
| 28 | In particular it will help to resolve the deep paradox that has already surfaced in this book and will continue to do so : how it is that the same features of individuality can be expressed in such totally disparate forms . |
| 29 | Furthermore , Althusser explains how it is that the economy can have some primacy within this structure . |
| 30 | Modern instrumentalism has adapted this strategy to explain how it is that the election of social democratic parties into government , or the advent of other coalitions orientated in part to working-class voters ( such as Franklin Roosevelt 's ‘ new deal ’ administration in the USA ) , have not qualified the fundamentally capitalist character of the liberal democratic state . |