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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Our study of exotic tribal religions , however , enables us to come to terms with this tantalizing problem at a safe distance ; indirectly it makes it easier to realize that it is not the presence of such beliefs that is odd or unusual but their absence .
2 Some suggest that it is more important to be able to bring political pressure to bear , so that the elected representatives of whatever sex will pass legislation of benefit to women .
3 This shows that it is still possible to produce a useful and innovative medicine without the huge financial and technical resources that are at the disposal of the multinational corporations .
4 Prompting some to suggest that it 's not only his tongue that should be examined .
5 The ham is always easier to cut when it is well chilled and may be even easier to handle if it is lightly frozen .
6 This used to be a lot easier to do than it is now : for one thing , working in the profession means that you have to belong to the actors ' union , Equity .
7 It would be wrong to conclude that it is simply because women live longer than men .
8 As to accountability ; this implies that it is not sufficient for a government to justify its existence because at some time in the past it was representative of popular opinion ; for the two may have diverged since then .
9 Often their private ‘ non-political ’ opinion is that the National Front are to be condemned as extremists ; but since what the National Front is extreme about is racism , this implies that it is all right to be moderately racist .
10 This means that it is wholly braided as distinct from the type which has a central core of twist .
11 This means that it is not only effective for those who suffer from spinal disorders but in the treatment of many other conditions too .
12 This means that it is not necessary to know the total number of items in advance , because each item is a separately allocated piece of memory .
13 This means that it is not necessary to oil them regularly .
14 This means that it is not necessary to reject totalization as such — because such a rejection assumes its very possibility , whereas all attempts at totalization such as Sartre 's demonstrate rather its impossibility .
15 This means that it is not necessary to require that the wavefunction is unchanged by the interchange of two identical particles but simply to specify that if it does change it does so in one of these trivial , physically equivalent , ways .
16 This means that it is not enough simply to make SMEs aware of sources of technology or of development programmes which are underway .
17 This means that it is equally easy to evolve from any one to any other one .
18 This means that it is only necessary to strike out in the declaration at the top of the second page to the effect that the survivor can ( for joint tenancy ) or can not ( tenancy in common ) give a valid receipt for capital money .
19 This means that it is very very quiet indeed .
20 If madness or the other is always inside , then this means that it is always already a part of reason or the same ; but it will also be exactly the element that reason is unable to comprehend , and will therefore work disruptively .
21 Spending is easier to cap because it is centrally controlled , and because the allocations to health authorities for running hospital and community health services , accounting for 70 per cent of total spending , are cash limited .
22 Well , people who stake their opposition to factory-farming on this kind of consideration should be prepared for a long , heated debate , with one set of ‘ experts ’ declaring that thus-and-so is true , while another declares that it is not .
23 For the purposes of analysing intonation , a unit generally greater in size than the syllable is needed , and this unit is called the tone-unit ; in its smallest form the tone-unit may consist of only one syllable , so it would in fact be wrong to say that it is always composed of more than one syllable .
24 The ham is always easier to cut when it is well chilled and may be even easier to handle if it is lightly frozen .
25 This suggests that it is not the findings , the products of enquiry , that we should apply but the process of enquiry , the conceptual analysis , observation and experimentation which research exemplifies .
26 This suggests that it is not only at the levels of syntactic and semantic analysis that language processing is interactive .
27 But this suggests that it is actually impossible for Hegel to realise what appears to be an ideal notion of the relationship between lovers .
28 This suggests that it is only a possibility where the baby is so handicapped for any reasonable human existence to be impossible .
29 Think later , be about five o'clock or quarter to five , or something like that depends when it 's on , have to come in early if they want to have it with us .
30 The theory of the second-best says that it is allocatively more efficient to spread inevitable distortions thinly over many markets than to concentrate their effects in a few markets .
  Next page