Example sentences of "it is [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is with plugging into her perceived economic prowess . |
| 2 | So it is with cleaning in the food industries . |
| 3 | It is with understanding linguistic factors in relation to the concrete problems and activities which make up the daily reality of the school : what children need to learn , how they learn and what difficulties they experience . |
| 4 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 5 | The more foliage a plant has , the better it is at removing pollution . |
| 6 | Although the body is not as efficient at converting excess carbohydrate to body fat as it is at converting dietary fat to body fat , it was thought until recently that any extra calories would still end up as body fat . |
| 7 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 8 | The vermiculite is also as efficient at radiating heat as it is at absorbing it . |
| 9 | BSB is also committed to spending as much on producing new programmes as it is on buying from the BBC archives . |
| 10 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 11 | It is n't clear from the evaluation that the money is better spent on air ambulance services than it is on improving intensive care facilities . ’ |
| 12 | But that 's enough , it seems , in this small town in the eastern part of Germany , unaccustomed as it is to dealing with foreigners . |
| 13 | The information at the centre will permit the board to determine exactly how close it is to achieving these change management objectives . |
| 14 | If you are to get the maximum enjoyment from growing roses , just as much care is needed in choosing one as a hundred , and it is to selecting what to grow — and where to buy — that we now turn . |
| 15 | It is For Catching Wild Colts and Vicious Horses on Aney Feild or Common ( For a long distance ) |
| 16 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |
| 17 | Designer shops rub shoulders with gourmet restaurants and the promenade is as much for dressing up and meeting people as it is for enjoying the glorious views . |
| 18 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 20 | Little beechwood board looks like a butter pat , but it is for chopping garlic . |
| 21 | We have the report and it is for noting . |
| 22 | Any charge by the landlord is standard-rated if it is for agreeing not to opt or that the rent is VAT-inclusive . |
| 23 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
| 24 | It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness . ’ |
| 25 | There is not a case , however , for spreading central funding between universities more evenly ; rather it is for judging all UK universities more broadly on the excellence of both their science and their technology bases . |
| 26 | It is much more a question of knowledge and awareness of which foods to eat and which to avoid than it is of following blindly someone else 's strict regime . |
| 27 | This is invariably as true of urban locations selling cultural capital with voodoo economics as it is of declining industrial regions of manufacturing industry ( Harvey , 1989 ) . |
| 28 | Never mind what you read and hear to the contrary ; your plants have had quite enough shock as it is without adding to it . |
| 29 | Very few people could say when it is without consulting a diary or the like . |
| 30 | Do n't you think that man has done enough harm to Jennifer as it is without inflicting any more pain on her ? ’ |