Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it is [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is perfectly clear that it is in the terms provided by this framework that we are able to answer any ‘ limited ’ question about the causes of particular phenomena . |
| 2 | It is easier for us to do this than it is for the English or Americans . ’ |
| 3 | I must check those feelings which are the expression of physical instinct craving for satisfaction , but God knows celibacy is as painful to women ( even from the physical standpoint ) as it is to men — could not be more painful than it is to a woman . |
| 4 | If the elderly relative is your own mother , frank discussion of problems is usually ( but not always ) easier than it is with an in-law . |
| 5 | It is interesting that it is in the work of a woman , Julian of Norwich , that Mary 's female willingness to be open to receive embodies that attitude which lies at the heart of contemplative experience . |
| 6 | Different though it is from the practical syllogism , it resembles it in that its conclusions are always revisable in the light of further information , which imposes itself as relevant whenever it does turn out to alter spontaneous reaction . |
| 7 | The dietary fibre connection is not in any way as clear and direct as it is in the evidence concerning cancer of the colon . |
| 8 | Labour 's Peter Mandelson dismissed the remarks and added : ‘ It is impossible to imagine a housing market more depressed than it is under the present Tory government . |
| 9 | It is not surprising , therefore , that one finds this pattern in some of the ‘ softer ’ professional fields , such as social work and teaching , where the theory-practice relationship may be less one-way than it is in the ‘ harder ’ ones . |
| 10 | People often say that a certain noise gets louder at night , even though its measured level does not alter ; this is because , at night , the level of the background noise is generally lower than it is during the day , During the recession , people near once noisy factories started to appreciate the quiet . |
| 11 | Because the proportion in such care rises with increasing age , the survey is more representative of those in the late 60s and early 70s than it is of the over-75s . |
| 12 | I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person . |
| 13 | There is also some indication that the appearance of particular items in particular columns is less easily shown as rule-governed than it is in the inner city . |
| 14 | Those who during the week at Lake Nona took the opportunity to ask questions about the running of America 's LPGA circuit , are convinced that it is to the players ' advantage that they leave the running of the association to its staff while they themselves concentrate on their golf . |
| 15 | It has been convincingly argued that the image of an advice-giving agency is crucial because it is at the stage of identification of the appropriate agency that most people are obstructed on the way to the solution of their problem . |
| 16 | The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought . |
| 17 | In this case , therefore , Burns 's idea of treating differences of status built on it as idle and artificial is just as appropriate as it is in the case of class . |
| 18 | Because of the stress that such feelings may cause , their physical health is at risk just as much as it is in the case of the busy executive trying to cram 200 hours-worth of activity into those 168 . |
| 19 | I think it reinforces the case , not so much for retaining the bobby in New Deer , but for increasing policing in country areas where crime is increasing just as much as it is in the towns . ’ |
| 20 | it wo n't be as warm as it is in the April |
| 21 | Matching drives to an XT is n't as easy as it is with an AT , because the range of drive sizes it supports will probably be quite narrow . |
| 22 | What should that placid little people know of the rattle and rush of an express train , typical as it is of the nerve-wasting haste with which we Westerners live our lives ? |
| 23 | There is no evidence that after the mother 's appearance on Sunday Miss T. renounced her adopted lifestyle , sinful as it is in the eyes of the faith . |
| 24 | The company 's main business is in sheet fed offset and it is at the forefront of printing on recycled paper . |
| 25 | A spokesman for the Bristol-based Chelsea Building Society said : ‘ The timing is not ideal but it is at the end of a long series of events . ’ |
| 26 | I suspect that your Phractocephalus hemiolipterus is already quite large as it is in an 8′ tank . |
| 27 | It is also what is involved when modern descriptions of the moon 's trajectory are retained and observation statements referring to the fact that the moon is much larger when it is near the horizon than when it is high in the sky are regarded as resulting from an illusion , even though the cause of the illusion is not well understood . |
| 28 | Second , if you are running your spur cable from an existing socket , you have to make sure that it is on the main circuit and is not itself a spur . |
| 29 | Many people living today , in the advanced industrial societies at least , can not imagine that anything in the past was better than it is in the present . |
| 30 | As will be considered further in Chapter 6 , the large value of institutional holdings , the comparatively small number of institutions , and their mutual accessibility , make joint action more feasible than it is in the case of individual shareholders . |