Example sentences of "[conj] it is [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , with respect to language issues , a variety of debates are still in progress and it is premature to draw firm conclusions ; however , there is some evidence to suggest that bilingualism may actually enhance educational performance ( Houlton , 1986 ) , that in the case of Afro-Caribbean pupils there may well be ‘ dialect interference ’ , although it is clear too that some of the problems here may derive from the negative attitudes of teachers towards Creole ( Edwards , 1979 ) , and that in the case of some Bangladeshi pupils lack of familiarity with English may be an obstacle to academic achievement ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | They should make certain that the authorities are spending a suitable amount on adult education , and that it is available locally as well as centrally . |
| 3 | ‘ What is important is that international financial assistance is well-packaged and well-planned and that it is visible so that people feel that international aid really helps . ’ |
| 4 | One characteristic of modern industry is that it is capital-intensive rather than labour-intensive and hence does not provide much employment . |
| 5 | And now that it is 8.58 pm and I have done fifty-eight minutes of work , which I deem to be more than enough for one night I am signing off , because , I 'm lazy . |
| 6 | Rather naively , it has sometimes been suggested , either explicitly or implicitly , that it is some more or less faithful copy of the stimulus which is shunted from one side of the brain to the other . |
| 7 | Because you can never go back to yesterday , if you came in last year or five years ago , ten years ago or longer , some of you have been in the truth for many , many years and it is nearer now than it ever was when you first came along and joined Jehovah 's people and as it says the night is well along and if any of us have ever worked on the night shift , I think we 're all well aware are n't we that when the night is well along and |
| 8 | However , pH can influence the outcome of competition , with acidic conditions selecting for acetogenesis , and it is possible therefore that the luminal pH in the colon is important in this respect . |
| 9 | In fact , unemployment is rising in every member state of the European Community except Spain — where it is already nearly double our level — and in every member country of the European Free Trade Association , and it is higher today than it was a year ago in every G7 country . |
| 10 | It may well be that the sons of barons and knights jostled with Sceva and Ollo in the markets of the twelfth century ; and it is likely enough that there were more rich men 's sons than poor men 's sons wearing the alderman 's robes . |
| 11 | The Sophronia in the poems , however , is unmarried , and it is likely therefore that she was a housekeeper or a relative . |
| 12 | A cat inhibits the desire to chase the bird until it is ready so that it has the highest chance of success . |
| 13 | This is a separate offence from manslaughter , but it is relevant here because of its close links with diminished responsibility . |
| 14 | But it is poisonous so if I start smelling it I 'm going have to switch the cupboard on to suck the fumes away . |
| 15 | But it is notable enough that the deal is worth 3.6 times the annual $125m sales value of these products . |
| 16 | The contemporary evidence is fragmentary , but it is clear enough that the strike was the occasion for certain master printers to revive the idea of employing women . |
| 17 | This would certainly simplify equation ( 6.3 ) to yield : but it is clear intuitively that we can not completely fill the file , as the last available storage position would on average be half the file area away from the last record 's computed address . |
| 18 | It is true that exercise should stretch every part of the body , but it is safe only if the body is in a stable , well-balanced position in the first place . |
| 19 | While it is clear enough that by 1519 the Household system badly needed reform , it is less clear that the Edwardian system existed only on paper . |
| 20 | But it is not a very good one , since it is available only until the moment that Titius brings suit . |
| 21 | The company said it will ‘ seriously consider ’ the software when it is available rather than the alternative Unix-based operating system OSF/1 , from the Open Software Foundation . |