Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 2 | But as I suggested in the last part of Chapter 2 , this difference is not of any great practical significance : whether deviant motivations are taken as given because they express free will ( classical theory ) or because it is not deemed fruitful to attempt their explanation ( control theory ) does not , in itself ; have any practical implications for the subsequent criminological enterprise . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) When looking at clauses which require compliance with time limits ( eg a time limit for notifying a warranty claim after a defect is discovered in goods supplied under the contract ) the question to ask is whether the time limit has been imposed from a genuine need to protect the other party 's position , or whether it is there to make it difficult , or practically impossible , for the other party to exercise its rights under the clause . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr. Gould the author of the Birds of Europe is about leaving this country for New Holland , or as it is now called Australia . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in the course of the twentieth century , following the experience of various forms of dictatorship , some of which have developed from socialist revolutions , this distinction has been overlaid by another , between ‘ totalitarianism ’ and ‘ democracy ’ , or as it is sometimes expressed , between one-party and multi-party systems . |
| 6 | James inaugurated the modern or as it is sometimes called , the ‘ modernist ’ novel in England , a kind of fiction which , in pursuit of a more faithful representation of reality , attenuated or eliminated altogether the authorial narrator . |
| 7 | The largest of these was the Forum of Trajan but the oldest is the Forum Romanum , or as it is often called , simply ‘ the Forum ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a wonderful goal , except that it is not going to be reached overnight . |
| 9 | This kind of chauvinism is , of course , perfectly normal coming from sections of today 's Conservative Party , except that it is normally directed at the ‘ Anti-British Broadcasting Corporation ’ . |
| 10 | The point being made is that although it is ultimately envisaged that the EC will be similar to the USA with each member country being akin to a state and it even being billed as the ‘ United States of Europe ’ , is it a reality when one considers differences in attitude , culture , language and even religion ? |
| 11 | There may be an advantage in laying down a procedure where the application is novel , and/or the parties believe that a particular approach is necessary and that if it is not stipulated an expert is likely to follow some other undesired procedure . |
| 12 | This combination of characters in Sivapithecus indicates that if it is indeed related to the orang-utan , characters like the straight shaft and convex deltoid plane that are present in the extant great apes must have arisen independently in the orang-utan and the African apes . |
| 13 | The company has not attempted to sell its products abroad , but feels that if it is ever to expand again , then overseas markets are the only feasible method . |
| 14 | Not entirely that because it is also to do with the mechanism by which government grant is distributed . |
| 15 | Clearly the health authority does not argue that because it is about to honour a similar referral to the same unit in Birmingham . |
| 16 | Except when it is actually feeding ( it eats bacteria ) , the paramoecium is in constant motion , frequently bumping into obstacles in its path and , when it does so , reversing by switching the beat of the cilia on one side . |
| 17 | Both will fire more when an edge is placed slightly off-centre than when it is symmetrically placed , an on-centre cell when there is more light than dark edge in the field , and the off-centre cell when the conditions are reversed . |
| 18 | Wherever possible , jobs could be created at localities of most need , but a greater worker mobility than has been displayed in the past should be expected , and where it is not obtained , financial restrictions should be exerted to encourage fit , able but reluctant people to move from the old , worked-out pockets of industry to new opportunities elsewhere . |
| 19 | Having been nurtured in this way and observed adult males receiving the same treatment , boys may expect similar preferential treatment and where it is not offered automatically , demand it as a right . |
| 20 | He concludes by suggesting that the relationship between research , policy and practice concerning offenders is often not either an equal nor an easy one and that it is not characterized by consistency . |
| 21 | Again and again he insisted that the artillery ‘ give the infantry the impression that it is supporting them and that it is not dominated . ’ |
| 22 | Yet , paradoxically , despite a failure to agree about what education should aim for , what it should actually do , everyone seems to be certain both that it should do something , and that it is not doing it . |
| 23 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 24 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 25 | It may be argued that because the affective domain deals with qualitative differences it can not be planned for in the same systematic way that is applied to knowledge , and that it is best dealt with by providing suitable models , and by discussion when problems and student needs arise . |
| 26 | However , where more than one person ( eg a merchant bank and a stockbroker ) agrees to act as the agent of a party to the takeover and his associates for the purpose of making disclosure , particular care must be taken to ensure that the responsibility for disclosure is agreed between the parties and that it is neither overlooked nor duplicated . |
| 27 | These physical effects of withdrawal indicate that the physical body craves for more of the drug and that it is physiologically addicted . |
| 28 | Analysts reckon AT&T has invested $2 billion in its computer division since its birth , and that it is still losing $200m a year . |
| 29 | However , in a foreword to the report , Lady Howe , the campaign 's chairman , stresses that the initiative is a long-term one and that it is only beginning to get underway . |
| 30 | While we can never be satisfied with results showing a pre-tax loss , we are confident that our recovery is well under way and that it is soundly based . |