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

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1 It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together .
2 We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy .
3 But it is not my intention to rehabilitate this theory , or to suggest that it is allegorically preferable to current theories of sexual difference .
4 Much so-called ‘ atonal ’ music is only music with a tonal foundation so obscured or disrupted that it is not easily perceived .
5 So measures of poor welfare include finding that , because of the way an animal is kept or treated , it is not able to live as long or finding that it is not able to grow or is not able to breed .
6 Wind the strip of green crepe paper round the length of your pencil or stick until it is completely covered .
7 Most typically , the apparent reality of the object is an effect of its being treated like a painting ; the text frames its object and then refers to it in terms that suggest that it is already represented on a canvas .
8 This is why it is better to see a doctor when you first feel unwell rather than wait until it is so bad that you have to go to hospital .
9 It insists upon lumping the whole of reality together as a single ‘ thing ’ or ‘ system ’ like a body , rather than recognising that it is more a collection of different things , a network of interrelated but separate systems , animate and inanimate , that can not be welded together into one ‘ thing ’ .
10 Instead , we 're willing to take the risk and give Birmingham the retail centre it deserves and needs if it is not to be completely undermined by rival out-of-town attractions . ’
11 I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success .
12 We want to look at stress now , and realise that it is not all negative , in fact some people actually go out and seek a fair amount of stress .
13 Please continue to view your progress in the mirror and realise that it is only one more day before you measure and weigh yourself to enter your reduced ( I hope ! ) statistics on the Weight and Inch Loss Record Chart .
14 In Greek tragedy , in most of Jane Austen 's novels , a leading figure in the drama realises with a sense of shock that the world is other than once imagined , and accepts that it is so .
15 We shall maintain the assumption that expectations are rational , and show that it is not this assumption per se which leads to the ineffectiveness of systematic stabilization policy but its combination with ( inter alia ) the assumption of price flexibility .
16 The government turns its head aside from government support — apart from words — and says that it is either the employers ' responsibility or the employees ' …
17 This , coupled with its comparative rarity in the Western world , has lead some of the more cynical amongst physicians to doubt its very existence , and to suggest that it is really a collection of ulcerative genital conditions including herpes and trauma .
18 I should go and see if it is all right . ’
19 Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too .
20 Fitting the water softener is a matter of breaking into the rising main and ‘ teeing ’ one pipe off to the softener and another from it ; a third pipe connecting the two tees contains a by-pass valve which is shut when the water softener is in use and open when it is not .
21 This will further strengthen the company and ensure that it is well set up to face the next decade with confidence .
22 Only the medium and large builders can mount a training campaign and ensure that it is effectively carried through .
23 You should use a plain paper , to give a good background for the pressed flowers , and ensure that it is fairly thick to absorb the glue without becoming transparent .
24 And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better .
25 Touche Ross has audited this pro-forma and states that it is properly prepared on the basis set out .
26 Suppose that the brochure mentions a particular hotel and states that it is not yet completed .
27 Those who believe , or rather , know that the dialectic in its predetermined movement requires the appropriation , by wage-earners and as the outcome of their victory in the class war , of the means of production , and know that it is historically right to be on the side of that movement , will know also that the first is superior .
28 I would go further and suggest that it is also ideologically unsound .
29 When they try to stunt the growth of waste and to ensure that it is properly disposed of , governments face a real quandary .
30 The hon. Gentleman knows that we are determined to sustain adult education , to extend it and to ensure that it is properly based in the local community .
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