Example sentences of "it is [adv] [vb pp] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … the paradigm of development as it is generally understood is not suited to explaining change in mature organisms . |
| 2 | Whether it is thereby improved is , of course , a matter of opinion . |
| 3 | A school that can show parents that it is well resourced is at a tremendous advantage . |
| 4 | Likewise , further development of Open Look as it is presently constituted is being discontinued , although there will be a new release in the Autumn incorporating the COSE specifications and X-Windows X11R5 . |
| 5 | And most important of all and it is often forgotten is that in South Africa the regime and the western powers were facing a real hot revolution and that hot revolution could have destroyed the country for all its people . |
| 6 | It is at times suggested that the security forces are operating under a series of shackles , which it is sometimes suggested are of a political nature . |
| 7 | But the petty snobbery and priggishness of which it is sometimes accused are in my view much less serious ( and in any case demonstrably declining ) than are two tendencies : the first , to make the curriculum and the public examination system a closed circuit ; the second , to be increasingly concerned with training — in other words , to think of its pupil-product more and more as an instrument rather than as an end . |
| 8 | It seems to me that E two as it is currently drafted is a great deal less comprehensive than P P G seven and a great deal more restrictive , possibly as a consequence of being less comprehensive . |
| 9 | That Farriery as it is commonly practised is conducted without principle or science , and greatly to the injury of the noblest and most useful of our animals . |