Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of media is large and the costs can be high so it is worth investigating the pulling power of different choices . |
| 2 | This statement might be misunderstood by readers to imply that unsafe sex elsewhere is somehow less risky than it is in London . |
| 3 | I must check those feelings which are the expression of physical instinct craving for satisfaction , but God knows celibacy is as painful to women ( even from the physical standpoint ) as it is to men — could not be more painful than it is to a woman . |
| 4 | They also suggest that there is a critical literacy threshold of 40 per cent : in other words two-fifths of a country 's people need to be literate if it is to ‘ modernize ’ and make an ‘ economic miracle ’ possible . |
| 5 | Oh yes , yes , very much so , yes , and with this new project that 's really exciting because it 's on an allotment site which has never actually happened before with a psychiatric rehabilitation project . |
| 6 | Different though it is from the practical syllogism , it resembles it in that its conclusions are always revisable in the light of further information , which imposes itself as relevant whenever it does turn out to alter spontaneous reaction . |
| 7 | Interesting though it is to be aware of the way in which these various theological traditions bear fruit in the mystics ' accounts of their experience , it is important to remember that they can not fully account for this experience . |
| 8 | So far this seems to have helped , as the pond has stayed quite clear though it is in constant sunlight . |
| 9 | But the only other guidance necessary is to say : be as funny as it is in you to be but be careful not to go too far . |
| 10 | The report , People and Poverty in the North East , says that the cost of living for people on income support is three times as high as it is for those on an average wage . |
| 11 | Unemployment is rising in every European country except in Spain , but there it is twice as high as it is in Britain . |
| 12 | The dietary fibre connection is not in any way as clear and direct as it is in the evidence concerning cancer of the colon . |
| 13 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 14 | Occasionally this can be interesting as it is in Bintley 's Consort Lessons ( 1984 ) . |
| 15 | Labour 's Peter Mandelson dismissed the remarks and added : ‘ It is impossible to imagine a housing market more depressed than it is under the present Tory government . |
| 16 | It is not surprising , therefore , that one finds this pattern in some of the ‘ softer ’ professional fields , such as social work and teaching , where the theory-practice relationship may be less one-way than it is in the ‘ harder ’ ones . |
| 17 | Identifying this money will be impossible once it 's in circulation . ’ |
| 18 | Parents generally worry less about the sexual behaviour of their sons , and teaching boys about sex and contraception is sometimes considered less crucial than it is for girls . |
| 19 | I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person . |
| 20 | There is also some indication that the appearance of particular items in particular columns is less easily shown as rule-governed than it is in the inner city . |
| 21 | Pasha Naiz and his death were evocative in consequential ways ; they were part of an idiom which was largely inexplicit ( though not unstructured ) but which has to be made explicit if it is to be understood by people who do not have it . |
| 22 | But even an issue such as camping can become rather central if it is of importance to one partner . |
| 23 | My Lords , erm i legislation is complex and I agree that we should do what we can to keep a clear er , er to keep it clear and simple if it 's at all possible and erm er I agree though that one needs a fully up-to-date text of the nineteen sixty four Police Act in order to decipher every last dot and comma . |
| 24 | That bit will all be dark cos that bit will all be dark because it 's in the earth shadow but that little bit there that little bit the little bit that is n't in the in the earth 's shadow the appearance there will be a new moon . |
| 25 | Shaun Ryder has always maintained he wo n't let the press ‘ be real because it 's like a fookin' mad film , it ai n't the real world ’ . |
| 26 | It has been convincingly argued that the image of an advice-giving agency is crucial because it is at the stage of identification of the appropriate agency that most people are obstructed on the way to the solution of their problem . |
| 27 | The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought . |
| 28 | In this case , therefore , Burns 's idea of treating differences of status built on it as idle and artificial is just as appropriate as it is in the case of class . |
| 29 | Dark as it is on this patch of forgotten ground , I can see the eagerness in his eyes . |
| 30 | it wo n't be as warm as it is in the April |