Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the state arrogates to itself the power to decide on all economic matters it is but a short step to the physical direction of labour . |
| 2 | For many parents it is as though the child they were expecting is dead . |
| 3 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
| 4 | In the British and the American cases it is as necessary to contextualise the production of knowledges about the inner city as it is to unpack the glossary of terms of urban regeneration used in contemporary political discourse . |
| 5 | So we say therefore that the contemplative life , taken in itself , is sweeter , nobler , worthier , and more meritorious in respect of its fundamental principle , which is delight in uncreated good ; in other words it is because this is the life which loves God more ardently . |
| 6 | Every election , some people discover that they are unregistered , and in most cases it is because they either forgot to fill in the form , or they moved in too late in the year to qualify . |
| 7 | In most cases it is because someone is withholding information to increase their power . |
| 8 | If maintained schools failed ( and fail ) to scale those commanding heights it is because they have not wished to . |