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

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1 ‘ In France and Italy it is 10.30 , in Germany it is 11pm . ’
2 It is pretty certain that , in term of what adults mean by ‘ longer ’ the children do not really think that the pencil is longer ; but why do they say this ?
3 Marcos loyalists now poke fun at the Aquino administration 's boast that it has built a new stability , arguing it is pretty fragile if it wo n't allow a dead man home for burial .
4 If you let your eye rove over the map , it is pretty obvious that one of the new towns should be near the Channel Tunnel and another near the new Stansted Airport .
5 IT IS pretty rare to come across a football manager brave enough to hold up his hands the day after a beating and invite criticism .
6 If one looks at the figures presented at Budget time for the previous financial year , for the financial year 1967/1968 , it is pretty clear in broad terms on what scale the process had been in operation .
7 Efficiency sounds like a strong claim , but actually it is pretty weak : all it means is that current information is available to everyone , either because they know about it or because enough people do , so that it is fully represented in the price .
8 ‘ Stasis ’ is a collection of tracks recorded between 1971 and 1975 , and I 'm here to tell you that most of it is pretty awful stuff .
9 Surprisingly , perhaps , it is pretty free of sexual discrimination .
10 I know the line you are talking about , but she never says the final world , although it is pretty obvious what she means .
11 It is pretty safe to conclude that the bats really were biased in favour of feeding old friends rather than strangers from a different cave .
12 Even now it is pretty impressive , and if you do n't want to go north , have a look at Lancing .
13 It is pretty comprehensive and I shall certainly try some of my old favourites from the list .
14 However , Washington is urging exiles to ‘ interest the media ’ , acknowledging privately that ‘ it is pretty clear that whatever we do will have no impact on the Banda government . ’
15 I have five daughters and two granddaughters , so it is pretty exciting , as you can imagine , suddenly to have a boy .
16 ‘ But it is pretty marvellous do n't you think ? ’
17 Having listened to most of that stuff for the first time in seven years yesterday , most of it is pretty embarrassing .
18 It is pretty clear that while big business is being done in local area network hubs and routers , the market is very overcrowded , and in those circumstances , the outcome is usually that the rich get richer and the poor get taken over or go bust : observers reckon that in that context , the richest of the rich is Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , which did $340m in the year to last July and is estimated to have at least 45% of the market and maybe as much as 50% ; Wellfleet Communications Inc is thought to be number two , with anything from 12% to 20% , with 3Com Corp third at around 10% , but in the hub sector alone , SynOptics Communications Inc is thought to have about 33% and Cabletron Systems Inc 15% , although the latter says the two are neck and neck .
19 It is pretty clear that the reason Z fails in Z6 is that 6 is a composite integer .
20 If you look upon Art as a frill , it is pretty certain you are not letting it play its proper part in the school .
21 If you think about it , it is pretty unlikely that , if you yourself were reading a magazine , even if you looked quite hard at an ad , you could give a very detailed description of the ad even quite soon afterwards .
22 It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper .
23 It is pretty powerful , is it not ?
24 It is pretty certain that the watercourses which ran down down to the lake were pretty foul in those days , although , it is quite possible that excrement was utilised to a fair extent as a garden fertiliser .
25 As the Secretary of State rightly said , it is pretty well impossible to protect people in a particular occupation .
26 It is pretty clear that Labour believes that it can not get a majority for those policies domestically and therefore wants to achieve a situation in which they can be imposed on us by a majority of continental countries .
27 It is pretty disgraceful if I can not put to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East the points which have been the centre of debate in this country for the past 10 days , but I shall do so .
28 If that is a railroad , it is pretty slow , and I would not look forward to travelling on it .
29 Now you may say well why , why does body fat matter er for female reproductive success and the answer to that if you think about it is pretty easy .
30 Coun Young said : ‘ I think it is pretty ludicrous to suggest anyone is getting rich by taking people to hospital ‘ But if people who do this sort of thing are facing the prospect of making a loss they just wo n't bother .
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