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

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1 Question 5 is to ensure that whenever the answer to Question 3 is ‘ No ’ the process is examined to see whether it is still a sound investment .
2 Question 5 is to ensure that whenever the answer to Question 3 is ‘ No ’ the process is examined to see whether it is still a sound investment .
3 okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch .
4 So if you want to see if it 's actually worked , alright ?
5 People naturally want to retire and it is therefore important to offer opportunities for fulfilment in leisure , education and voluntary activities and to recognise the valuable role played by older people within the family .
6 But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction .
7 approach , that 's why everybody ca n't , you know , everyone has to conform and it 's like
8 Luce Irigaray , for instance , has argued that it is totally reductive to define the feminine as the not-masculine in relation , say , to sexuality .
9 I 'd like to I 'd like to thank the panel for the work which they have done on this very difficult issue and , although the convenor has said that it is perhaps a difficult thing to alter the text of such a document on the floor of the house , I think we also have to point out that this is our only opportunity to comment upon this particular draft which will become a definitive draft if passed by the general assembly today .
10 In addition , experience has shown that it is equally important to make a provisional assessment of factors such as development and staffing costs , and the technical feasibility of pursuing any proposed computer initiatives .
11 The name reflects the fact that the animal 's horns and head resemble the Arabian oryx , but DNA analysis has shown that it is most closely related to the oxen family .
12 More recent research has shown that it is only some carbohydrate foods which cause this problem , not all of them .
13 Research has shown that it is often the case that a plaintiff 's solicitor either does not have the resources to undertake investigations or is loath to seek out all available reports .
14 I want to suggest that it is ultimately unsatisfactory , both on intellectual and political grounds .
15 He has grasped that it is more profitable to attack the Government for incompetence and negligence than to present it as a systematic and all-too-competent conspiracy against the people .
16 By recording body temperatures throughout the day of groups of well-adjusted shiftworkers , intolerant shiftworkers , and day-workers who had given up shiftwork because they could not tolerate it , Reinberg has demonstrated that it is indeed the best-adjusted group whose circadian rhythm was most immutable .
17 Governments are expected to meet again here on January 18 to review the past six months , and many , particularly the US , are expected to argue that it is far too soon to be sending Vietnamese back against their will .
18 The Treasury team needs to realise that it is now in competition .
19 He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment .
20 THE conversion of the Bury to Manchester line to Metrolink operations has meant that it is no longer available for conventional locomotives and trains .
21 Mr Kinnock has learnt that it is more effective to mock the Prime Minister as an anachronism in a brave new world than snarl the word ‘ Thatcherism ’ and present her as the personification of all evil .
22 The situation has changed and it is now possible to determine , for example , how much oxygen is being used by a particular area of the brain while a subject does a task like reading or memorizing a word list ( Raichle 1983 ) .
23 The meta-analyses referred to show that it is often different components of the counterregulatory responses that vary between studies .
24 Although the Bcl-2 protein is membrane-associated r7–10 , its subcellular location is controversial : two studies have suggested that it is mainly associated with the nuclear envelope and endoplasmic reticulum , whereas another study has suggested that it is mainly located in the inner mitochondrial membrane .
25 Foreign assistance or aid will be examined later ; suffice to state that it is totally inadequate in relation to the present-day financial needs of many LDCs .
26 I wrote and thanked him on behalf of the Council for what he 'd done but it 's now a question of finding somebody who can match it .
27 The primary item will be checked to ensure that it is syntactically correct , but no checks will be made to ensure that it is semantically correct ( ie. that the information exists in LIFESPAN ) .
28 I only say this , because it 's always been very difficult to get erm , America to take any , any interest at all in developing in England , and , how and I 'd wondered if it 's still the same situation .
29 Empirical evidence on aggregate investment tends to confirm that it is indeed inversely related to the rate of interest , but most evidence suggests that the relationship is a fairly weak one — for example , M. Evans estimated ( for United States data ) that a 25 per cent fall in interest rates would cause net investment to rise by 5–10 per cent over a two-year period after a one-year lag .
30 You begin to see that it 's just another language .
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