Example sentences of "it is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Describing Bell Lawrie as ‘ old friends of ours ’ , Brewin 's managing director , John Hall said yesterday : ‘ We are at the moment in negotiations , but it is pretty difficult to say too much until it is clear where we are going . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ It is pretty clear they have got the message from institutional shareholders , ’ but he warned that it could take years for Barclays to recover from the bad lending made in the late 1980s . |
| 33 | It is pretty odd that whilst playing croquet they do not use ordinary equipment , instead they use flamingoes as their mallets and hedgehogs as their balls . |
| 34 | And when we think about it , Edgeware Road , number seven , it is pretty early on , I ought to have realized , but I did n't know London well enough then . |
| 35 | But after slaving over something for ten years , it is rather nice to show it off a bit . |
| 36 | And a letter of 30 August 1934 is particularly interesting , since it is rather plainly a reply to protests from Binyon about Pound 's contemptuous treatment of Rubens . |
| 37 | It is rather comforting in a way . |
| 38 | It is rather like a Labour Party conference , without the block vote . |
| 39 | It is rather like warfare , the seesaw of offensive and defensive , of tank armour and the high-velocity penetrating bullet . |
| 40 | But for the young , it is rather a question of the scales falling from their eyes , and having nothing to believe in any more . |
| 41 | It is rather faster than a Commodore 64 , and has similar graphics and sound , which makes the hardware good value . |
| 42 | Of course , as the ISC says , if there are no independent directors it is rather more difficult for shareholders to get an independent view of the directors ' offer . |
| 43 | It is rather expensive . |
| 44 | I do n't mind ; it is rather like being a little girl again . |
| 45 | It is rather that people can get to the stage of remembering some experiences , quite often the good ones , that were shared with the person who has died . |
| 46 | ‘ It is rather like the older generation 's fascination with the Royal Family . ’ |
| 47 | It is rather like the older generation 's fascination with the Royal Family , ’ he added . |
| 48 | ‘ Well , Miss Danziger , you must allow it is rather unusual for guests to keep engagements from one year to the next , as you do . |
| 49 | It is rather that he realigns fantasy and fact by using a set of ready-made and entirely artificial rules governing talking animals to explore the workings of a no less unnatural , controlled and rigidly inhuman system . |
| 50 | Eight months on and little has changed — if anything it is rather worse . |
| 51 | Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ . |
| 52 | It is rather the inner emptiness or ignorance which the spate of words attempts to conceal . |
| 53 | It is rather as a precaution against compounding one media mistake with another . |
| 54 | IT LOOKS a substantial book but there are so many blank pages it is rather expensive for the amount of information . |
| 55 | It is rather tempting to think of this room as a boudoir rather than a chapel . |
| 56 | ‘ I 'm sorry it is rather cold in here , sir . |
| 57 | With all this it is rather slow to grow and frequently when the culture plate is examined for evidence of gonococcal growth it will be found to be overgrown by other bacteria or yeasts , making it difficult or impossible to identify the gonococcus . |
| 58 | It is also important to examine the throat for the presence of gonococci ( by cultural methods ) , since , not only may it be the only site involved , but it is rather more difficult to eradicate the infection from this place . |
| 59 | This line of thought seems to be promising , but it is rather vague . |
| 60 | It is rather like looking for a single straw in a haystack . |