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

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1 Right now the gossip in the town is that Ingrid is pregnant and it looks as though Olive King is about to become a star … about time too !
2 and I think that 's right but it means that things are more difficult to achieve in a lot of ways .
3 A copy of the 1991 Census datasets will be deposited at the ESRC Data Archive ( where it will join the data from previous Censuses ) when the data is complete and it appears that all corrections have been made .
4 Having said this , I consider that the Commission is right when it argues that to require all owners and operators of British fishing vessels to have their residence in the United Kingdom goes beyond what is permitted under article 52 of the E.E.C .
5 The law , ‘ All planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ , is scientific because it claims that planets in fact move in ellipses and rules out orbits that are square or oval .
6 Again , this is easier than it seems and far easier to do than to put into words .
7 This passage is interesting as it assumes that there would have been no right of recovery in any of the cases to which the section referred although had the Woolwich principle been applicable there would have been recovery , apart from the section , in some .
8 The mention of Cyprus is interesting because it shows that Egypt was not mere opportunism : the decision to attack Persia in strength on Cyprus had already been made .
9 And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now .
10 To have self-confidence is great and it helps when you apply for a new job , but to eat up your seed corn because you 're sure all will turn out for the best is foolhardy .
11 Again this is helpful because it contains and defines the conclusion .
12 The falsification of cautious conjectures is informative because it establishes that what was regarded as unproblematically true is in fact false .
13 This heading , which the report uses , is illuminating as it indicates that , for the government at least , old age and disability are synonymous .
14 Freezing , something when er a liquid is freezing and it changes when it is you know changes in the physical sense of the
15 At first sight , the filter circuit may appear conventional but the presence of the diode D1 is unconventional and it seems as though it is going to be switched off all the time anyway , the anode ( a ) always being at zero potential .
16 Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 .
17 ‘ The reduction is more than it looks because the decibel scale is a logarythmic one , ’ says Dr Greg Watts , of the Transport and Road Research laboratory at Craythorn .
18 This is important because it recognises that retailers may not have the knowledge or the resources to check whether the goods he sells meet the general safety requirement , especially in the case of second-hand goods .
19 All this is important because it meant that by the end of the 1930s British town planning was in a stronger position than would have been thought likely , to respond to the national emergency of physical destruction , which led to an unprecedented period of planned rebuilding .
20 The observation that the period of the sleep/wake rhythm differs from 24 hours is important because it indicates that environmental cues can not have been responsible .
21 Recent Rosat observations do show evidence for substructure on some scales — and this is important because it indicates that larger-scale cosmological structures built up hierarchically — but not the smaller-scale clumping required to remove the baryon catastrophe .
22 This is important because it suggests that the courts themselves may well be largely responsible for the dramatic increase in the number ( and proportion ) of triable either way cases coming before the Crown Court in recent years .
23 Although this is consistent with a considerable body of evidence suggesting that successful innovations couple technological expertise with a range of marketing skills ( see the overview in Freeman , 1982 ) , it is important because it shows that this coupling process can be market mediated .
24 The survey is important because it shows that increasingly stringent EC regulations concerned with reducing nitrate levels in the water supply can be at least partly met through changing agricultural practices .
25 This last point is critical since it means that the number of common elements will be reduced and accordingly that discrimination between A and B will be enhanced .
26 It 's harder than it looks and you get very wet .
27 The underlying motive here ( although the word ‘ motive ’ is misleading since it suggests that such strategies are not genetically driven but are a product of conscious strategy ) is again ‘ the selfish gene ’ and its reproductive success .
28 But er , oh that 's alright if it does but the B U is , is , you know , a really good one .
29 But he adds the value judgement that this is desirable because it exists and can not be undone .
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