Example sentences of "it is [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather Britain that has chosen the Italian road and opted for a one-party state that may soon have more difficulty in government than it imagines . |
| 2 | But it is rather Sartre 's own text that seems to be caught between these two dialectical possibilities of expansion and compression in a double logic . |
| 3 | It is strictly PPR , and a long study of Pooley 's is recommended before starting your flight plan . |
| 4 | Eurocheques are accepted for fuel , but for landing fees it is strictly cash . |
| 5 | It is simply nonsense . |
| 6 | They do not see falling over as ‘ failure ’ ; it is simply part of the process of learning . |
| 7 | For them , too , it is simply ideology and false consciousness . |
| 8 | We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will . |
| 9 | Such is the efficacy of propaganda for the global capitalist system that it is rarely capitalism itself that is targetted in such cases , but the symbols of American or European national power . |
| 10 | C does know who borrowed it ( it is not B ) — but is frightened of being bullied if s/he says anything about it . |
| 11 | ‘ Property therefore means belonging to a tribe , ’ [ p. 90 ] and even then it is not land which is property with pastoralists . |
| 12 | It is not surprise that ‘ deep green ’ environmental groups , closer to the first view , find it difficult to communicate their concerns to businesses and governments who feel more at home with the second . |
| 13 | It is not surprise therefore , that I heard the story there and I related it exactly as I remember hearing it . |
| 14 | ‘ It is not sport for sport 's sake , ’ says Mr Hawkins , who is an ex-Harlem-Globetrotter , ‘ but a way of imposing a structure on undisciplined lives : in a sports team they turn up regularly , on time , in uniform , and train hard . |
| 15 | I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ . |
| 16 | It is not faith going a second mile ; it is faith making its first full step and there is no going back . |
| 17 | It is not Nizan 's allegiance to communism which must be interpreted in the light of his resignation from the party . |
| 18 | It is not drugs as such that act as responsible agents for the collapse of well-being in the society and the proceeding crime , but the human desire for drugs . |
| 19 | If , as is generally agreed , it is not Parliament itself which governs , to what extent is the Government itself , minister , civil servants , and the whole apparatus of the state , actually accountable and answerable to the Commons , and so in principle controllable by it ? |
| 20 | It is not management by consensus by any means , ’ says one former colleague . |
| 21 | It is not kind of you . ’ |
| 22 | Mitchell adds , ‘ Bisexuality is a movement across a line , it is not androgyny ’ ( p. 308 , her emphasis ) . |
| 23 | But conversely , as I have already remarked , when Juliet Mitchell insists that ‘ bisexuality is a movement across a line , it is not androgyny ’ , she also leaves too much of sexual difference in place . |
| 24 | The text of Gloriana is finely literate , but it is not literature . |
| 25 | ‘ It is not industrialisation per se that creates underemployment and marginalisation , but an industrial finance capitalism and advanced technology ( intensive in capital ) which does not permit fundamental changes in the economic structure . ’ |
| 26 | Most water in fuel , assuming it is not rainwater getting in , is caused by condensation formed on the inside of the tank . |
| 27 | Can I remind you that it is a draft , and it is a consultation draft , it is not Government policy . |
| 28 | It is not Government policy that all land everywhere should be subject to special constraint . |
| 29 | But it is not man 's activities alone which can be held to account , for man is also a part of the natural ecosystem . |
| 30 | Remember it is not TV |