Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may readily show that the matrix X is non-singular. for if it is not , let us first suppose it to be simply degenerate . |
| 2 | The situation with schistosome sex determination is quite different in that it is the female that is heterogametic ( ZW as opposed to the male ZZ ) and the primers used amplify a highly reiterated set of tandem repeats on the W chromosome ( 4 ) . |
| 3 | A response that maintains wide spacing , as in territorial animals or solitary nomads , may be equally social in that it is an interaction between two or more individuals . |
| 4 | The last help screen might be considered superfluous in that it is simply a reminder that all entries have to be made in an appropriate manner . |
| 5 | First , theory needs to be explicit about whether it is dealing with symmetrical or asymmetrical , reversible or irreversible relationships . |
| 6 | Although the landscape that the poet , the artist and the scientist see is similar in that it is beyond the senses , the way each one of them views , lives and works in them is different . |
| 7 | Now , as the chairman said we base the salaries of directors on two elements an element of base salary which looks at market levels and we ergo , have a fair base which reflects a sort of medium to upper level of companies of this size we then leverage , very carefully , a bonus scheme related to performance and I believe that is the right thing to do and I believe and so do my fellow directors who sit on that committee believe that it is one of the reasons that we 've seen the great growth in this company over the last five years which you 've achieved and which actually the Chancellor of the Exchequer would very glad about because it is increasing the wealth and the benefit of this country , particularly as a lot of those earnings are coming from overseas and will in , in time be repatriated in Britain . |
| 8 | ST MARY 'S Youth and Community Centre , Halifax is unique in that it is the only one of its type owned by the Diocese of Leeds . |
| 9 | The Pacific is unique in that it is made up of small island states with very limited resources and the way ahead is to work together . |
| 10 | According to Jean-Marc Thiollay , ornithologist and government adviser on the environment , " French Guiana is unique in that it is the most densely wooded country in the world , the country with the smallest population and the only country of its kind with absolutely no protected zones . |
| 11 | In the same way , it is uncommonly satisfactory in that it is a simple basic skill with great possibilities of expansion and variation of which the full exploration does suppose a certain creative intelligence and deductive wit . |
| 12 | A PC-based analyser is ideal in that it is impartial , on-hand , and quick , but due allowance has to be made for the particular type of text . |
| 13 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 14 | This energy is negative in that it is destructive of happiness and health in many cases . |
| 15 | Again the leaflet will be helpful in that it is the Regional Assessor who determines the band for the property . |
| 16 | The lone ranger rode into the sunset and jumped on his horse ( 7 ) The capital of England is London and the capital of France is Paris The sense of and in ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) seems to be rather different : in ( 4 ) it seems to mean " and then " and thus ( 6 ) is strange in that it is hard to imagine the reverse ordering of the two events . |
| 17 | That support will undoubtedly be forthcoming for while it is Frank Holden today , who knows , into the future , who will be put into a similar predicament if the Bank is allowed to get away with its present unreasonable stance . |
| 18 | I like a picture to be fairly full as if it is too empty it can become boring to look at after a few months , but it is very easy to get carried away with all your lovely pressed flowers and try to fit them all into one picture — using too many flowers looks just as bad as not using enough . |
| 19 | There are three basic misconceptions which are especially common : first , that doubt is wrong because it is the same thing as unbelief ; second , that doubt is a problem which troubles faith but not knowledge ; and third , that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts . |
| 20 | In this chapter we will examine a third misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts . |
| 21 | A mock trial differs from a moot in that it is a mock jury-trial , with jury and witnesses , not an argument on law . |
| 22 | In economic policy , for instance , Britain is currently sovereign in that it is the Chancellor of the Exchequer who takes decisions given the circumstances of the day and defends his decisions before Parliament . |
| 23 | A group income election is flexible in that it is possible for a dividend to be paid outside the election by informing the Collector of Taxes ( s 247(3) ) . |
| 24 | He graded it an unlikely E7 6c — unlikely in that it is , in all probability , much harder . |
| 25 | A certain proportion remains unaccounted for and it is part of this that is claimed to be the product of investment in education and health . |
| 26 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 27 | The existence of a ban on the legality of the Movement makes the position even more difficult in that it is practically impossible to even get a hall in some areas in which to hold a meeting . |
| 28 | Such an effects-based approach is seen as being more efficient in that it is likely to capture for investigation a greater number of anti- competitive agreements and fewer of those that are innocuous . |
| 29 | Likewise , the title is misleading in that it is not a true budgeting system . |
| 30 | In 1991 case management was renamed ‘ care management ’ in a guidance document from the Department of Health and Social Services Inspectorate , on the grounds that the term ‘ case ’ was demeaning to the individual and misleading in that it is the care , and not the person , that is being managed . |