Example sentences of "it is [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It is with deep regret that , on behalf of Athletico Whaddon Football Club , I have to report the death of club chairman , Mr Ken Mentle .
2 It is with deep regret that I report the death of Mr Frank Sinclair of Bishop 's Castle .
3 It is with deep regret that we announce the death of one of our first members , Fred Fisher at the age of 79 years .
4 IT IS with deep regret that we announce the demise of EPDD flexi-day .
5 IT IS with deep regret that the death is announced of .
6 IT IS with deep regret that we have to report the deaths of the following :
7 IT is with deep regret that we have to report the deaths of the following :
8 It is with deep regret that the death is announced of , wife of .
9 It is with deep regret that we have to report the deaths of the following :
10 It is with deep regret that we have to report the deaths of the following :
11 Teaching any type of child requires patience and understanding fused with the necessary degree of firmness and discipline ; so it is with mentally handicapped pupils although the extent of the patience — or firmness — may be considered broader .
12 This property is , however , not conceptualized as something in itself ( a kind of mystical link between people and things as it is with fully developed private property ) because it remains only an aspect of the social relations of which the tribe consists .
13 It is with precisely such phenomena that the methodology of the interpretive paradigm is concerned , and without them any conclusions drawn about the final product will be partial and uninformative .
14 Indeed , it is at exactly this stage of Picasso 's evolution that one senses behind his art the presence of this great ‘ primitive ’ who in his naiveté had unconsciously succeeded in ignoring the forces which had influenced French painting for the past fifty years , the forces against which Picasso and his friends were most immediately reacting .
15 The nearest one can get to a level equivalence is to say that it is at roughly A Level standard , though it differs hugely from any actual A Level examination , and this comparison should not be taken too literally .
16 Many people find that they drop their meditation practice or whatever it is at precisely the time when they think they need it most — i.e. when they are feeling most stressed .
17 But it is at precisely this time that price advantage comes into its own and companies become more willing to switch from existing suppliers if they can cut costs by using a new source .
18 The ‘ challenge to society ’ seems to fit Raskolnikov 's Napoleonic idea — until we read on in Anna Dostoevsky 's manuscript where it is at once and directly linked to ‘ the governor 's bitten ear ’ , that is to one of those sudden sallies of Stavrogin 's elsewhere in The Possessed , sallies hovering between outrage and prank .
19 But when we move from Einhard to the Christian ideal of rule in general , it is at once necessary to point out an important fact about Christianity : that its book , the Bible , consists of two Testaments , which are very different from each other in ethic .
20 It is at once the strength and the weakness of Justinian 's law that its grasp of principle is slack : a powerful command of principle had led the classical lawyers to develop a finely worked system ; yet , that done , they were entrapped in it and helpless against its inadequacies .
21 John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’
22 Examining this structure with the eye of an engineer it is at once evident that very little of the stiffness of the carbon — carbon chain will be reflected in the macroscopic modulus of the plastic since the bonds which control the extension are not the covalent primary bonds but the secondary or van der Waal forces which attach the convolutions of the chain to each other .
23 It is at once clear from Fig. 2 that the long- and middle-wave cones of the primate retina do not form the regular , systematically alternating array that has sometimes been postulated .
24 It is at once an amusing and instructive exercise in the power of communicating .
25 Indeed it is at once the changing social history and the complex sociology of the changing institutions and relations which take us beyond these formulas to the possibility of more precise analysis .
26 The conglomerate is indeed becoming typical of technologically advanced cultural production in the advanced capitalist economies , and its theoretical importance , in this context , is that it is at once dominant in modern cultural production and yet , in its determining forms , radically separate from it ; its ‘ purpose ’ ( cf. page 67 ) now primarily elsewhere .
27 Enclosure is manifest in many forms ; it is at once the womb-like interior of airplane , the surface of the body , the frame of a window , the border between countries , and the boundary between discourses .
28 It is at once apparent that the McKinsey-GE matrix has much less definite measurements for its axes .
29 It is at once clear from Figure 5.2 that the PFM graph is a different shape from those of the three planets , which are broadly similar to each other .
30 Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past .
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