Example sentences of "it is [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value of having such materials in brief and physically separate forms is that it is easier to manipulate ideas while they are still in note form than it is once you have written them out in prose . |
| 2 | You hold it up and I 'll see I ca n't say what it is unless you show me . |
| 3 | It is although , but that 's , er , were thinking of changing that quite radically . |
| 4 | But it is although it does n't sound like her . |
| 5 | It is while at an Instructor training course at the scouts ' Longbridge centre that they met the infamous Saun Baker and started to paddle with an informal group of Thames weir bashers . |
| 6 | It is while the caretaker was in the science and humanities wing he turned on the light which caused the college to explode . |
| 7 | It is after they have lost control for the second or third time that the real difficulties appear . |
| 8 | Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed . |
| 9 | It is after Zacchaeus has stood up and said to God , ‘ Listen , sir ! |
| 10 | Broadly speaking the more immediate the feedback the more effective it is except that there comes a point at which , to use Miller 's ( 1953 ) distinction , learning feedback becomes action feedback , the latter improves the current response whereas the former improves succeeding responses . |
| 11 | The big question mark over it is whether there is the political will in Whitehall to keep Mr Patten 's pledge to provide the resources to police the environment . |
| 12 | It is a factor that Mr Crosby recognises : ‘ Tactics can win you these games , but more often than not it is whether the players have the experience and the bottle . ’ |
| 13 | The key question is not whether their use may be discontinued , once started ; rather , it is whether they should be used in the first place . |
| 14 | It is whether the pendulum has not swung too far in the other direction , so that the vitality , resourcefulness and dynamism of the modern corporation is sinking under the weight of excessive regulatory controls . |
| 15 | It is whether a reasonable person , looking at the vehicle , and forming a view as to its general use , would say the vehicle might well be used on the road . |
| 16 | Note that it does n't matter whether the hit scores a wound or whether a wound is saved , it is whether you hit or not that allows you to fire again . |
| 17 | Then , since it is whether or not a cell actually responds that determines whether it undergoes the slow modification process , the slow process would make cortical neurons become permanently tuned to this uncorrelated set of features . |
| 18 | ‘ The test of unfairness is not that of a game : it is whether in the light of the considerations to which I have referred the evidence , if admitted , would undermine the justice of the trial . |
| 19 | It is whether we want to be rich or poor — rich in Europe or poor outside it . |
| 20 | It is whether we are prepared to destroy the tripartite system that has been developed in this country since the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act of eighteen thirty five and the Local Government Act of eighteen eighty eight , for make no mistake about it Clause two of this Bill effectively destroys the careful balance that has been developed over more than a century between chief officers , local police authorities and the Home Secretary . |
| 21 | whether , I du n no , what it is whether it is your your tummy reduced or |
| 22 | It is whether children with special needs should attend a special school , and of course the argument from this point of view is that a special school can have staff specially trained to deal with that kind of child , the sort of resources that they need , the protective environment that 's necessary for certain disabilities , and of course there are many special schools around — we 've got one here in Brighton for the deaf , for instance — there are a number of examples that one can point to . |
| 23 | Well I think of evaluation as the process by which a person or a group of people have a fairly careful look at something they 're doing in order to try and decide whether it 's going well or badly , whether there are things in it they might wish to improve , and how valuable they think it is whether they might want to make changes in it in any way . |
| 24 | The signs may wax and wane , and the longer it is before a diagnosis is made , the more likely the dog is to end up with long-term arthritis , another disease where preventive measures are very easy and effective . |
| 25 | So I decided : if anyone does come , I want to see who it is before I show myself . |
| 26 | After all , if your luff is flapping you need to know where it is before you can put it right . |
| 27 | But I do n't know how long it is before I get my results back . |
| 28 | Yeah because what they did they they 've done it a few a times though different people , look and see how far it is before it 's a blind spot . |
| 29 | I du n no but like er say the d a driver 's coming this way , he wants to see how far down the road it is before it 's a blind spot again . |
| 30 | Do you want to know who it is before I go out ? |