Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , however , international comparisons strongly suggest that it is not the most downtrodden and deprived who provide the most militant source of protest . |
| 2 | Summala ( 1984 ) , however , suggest that it is not the detection of signs but memory for them which is likely to be faulty . |
| 3 | In reality , the only difference between the two media is that the public knows how newspapers get their stories — though they do n't know that it 's exactly the same way as people in television get them . |
| 4 | Caspar , genuinely appalled , said , ‘ But do n't you know that it 's almost the most dangerous place in the whole of Ireland ? ’ |
| 5 | He should know that it is not the Government who take action in these matters , but the Attorney-General . |
| 6 | How ancient this thought is we can see by noticing that it is just the figure Plato used in The Republic to supply his political myth justifying political inequality ( Bk . |
| 7 | Many feminists will come this far with me but still shy away from the idea of pay for childcare , even when we 've clarified that it 's not the same demand as Wages for Housework . |
| 8 | Scandalmongers will be disappointed to know that it is not the prostitutes which I have in mind here , rather the fact that this little thing called Amendment 27 to the Maastricht bill is also receiving such a chorus of anticipation . |
| 9 | I noticed this with distaste , and rejoiced that it was not the asparagus season . |
| 10 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 11 | Neil , as it happens , is himself a committed Scot , but the Scottish-based executives say that it is not the current incumbent of that post , but the fact that the regional directorate enjoys ultimate power of veto which worries them . |
| 12 | To Pamela 's disappointment she say that it was still the same red paperback . |
| 13 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |
| 14 | Never forget that it is not the speed that the horse jumps the fence , but the rhythm maintained and picked up immediately on landing and the economy of route both into and away from fences that gives a fast time . |
| 15 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 16 | The House of Lords disagreed and it is now the law that it may be enough for the transaction to contain an element of bounty if it is of the kind conferred by the exercise of a special power of appointment . |
| 17 | I do n't know whether it 's exactly the same company , or whether it 's erm , brackets nineteen ninety three or whatever it is . |
| 18 | I do n't know whether it is just the advance of modern technology within the family , or whether it is because the type of material the fire is built with nowadays would n't let them taste quite so good . |
| 19 | Probably you 'd already gathered that it is n't the first time he 's played similar tricks , and that he 's a law to himself , and comes and goes as he pleases . |
| 20 | So I do n't think that it 's now the logical way forward . |
| 21 | I do not think that it was entirely the question of the ownership of Nigerian oil ; more likely they genuinely believed that the Biafrans had no chance of success . |
| 22 | One might however comment that it is possibly the case that those theologians whose views are now quoted as the word of God , or whose theological reasoning is taken over without question , may not have believed theology to exist independently of human knowledge or social conditions . |
| 23 | He has not done a lot of opera but thinks that it is just the way things worked out . |
| 24 | The Mexican Government wanted to pretend that it was not the army that guaranteed them the land . |
| 25 | We use the dynamic competitive firm operating under spot price uncertainty as the vehicle for our analysis , though it should be emphasized that it is not the firm per se that interests us but , rather , the risk , the dynamics , the complexity , and the optimality . |
| 26 | We repeat that it is not the intention to advocate a standard curriculum for all secondary schools to the age of 16 , not least because that would be educationally naive . |
| 27 | One response to this has been to challenge the position of the majority in the province by suggesting that it is not the population of the province who should decide the issues at stake but the population of the whole of Ireland . |
| 28 | I think Steve you were you were suggesting that it was only the G three T one . |
| 29 | Folly realised that it was probably the only relevant English word she knew . |
| 30 | But the stabbing pain in his eardrums was almost welcome , as the roaring subsided to a grumbling , faraway avalanche and he realised that it was only the sound of the storm . |