Example sentences of "it is indeed a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subservience becomes a habit , and to step outside it is indeed a going out into the unknown , a going into a wilderness , where there are no clear paths forward , where life is precarious , and survival itself uncertain . |
| 2 | It is indeed a nice irony that two of the most famous characters in Scottish history , Mary and Knox , were united in their preference for countries other than Scotland , and that it was Elizabeth 's eventual , reluctant decision to have Mary executed , and her earlier unrelenting hostility to Knox , which catapulted them both into the realm of Scottish fascination and Scottish legend . |
| 3 | It is indeed a middling grand house , in red brick with three storeys of segment-headed windows characteristic of the early Georgian , and just the shape to frame the passionate , scarred face of Rosa Dartle , destroying herself with unrequited love for the seducer Steerforth . |
| 4 | Clearly there is something very important going on in this move , and at one level it is indeed a necessary corrective to the textual isolationism of much modernist criticism . |
| 5 | It is indeed a salutary ( and exceedingly difficult ) exercise to attempt to analyse them in the security of a solitary armchair . |
| 6 | It is indeed a hard slog for the podophile . |
| 7 | It is indeed a shame that prominent scientists of the past did not share in this phenomenon . |
| 8 | Proudly proclaiming that this recording contains for the first time on one CD all of Bach 's Toccatas and Fugues ( including the Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV548 ) , it is indeed a well-stocked programme . |
| 9 | Switching the GR-1 on , the first thing you see is the LED telling you that it is indeed a Roland Guitar Synth . |
| 10 | To choose suffering for the sake of the stimulating effects of running away from it is indeed a paradox . |
| 11 | Byrne looks embarrassed to be in it — and it is indeed a sore waste of his undoubted talents — while Basinger as usual goes for the lowest common , and I mean common , denominator . |
| 12 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 13 | It is indeed a very big chamber — an underground cathedral — and we sat and turned off our torches . |
| 14 | It is indeed a case of ‘ what you will ’ in decoding this and all other linguistic signs , but it is Iago who has made Othello construe it in that manner , and will continue to do so . |
| 15 | What is far more important , however , is that the TCCB should make sure that it is indeed a national league by selling rights to the BBC , so that everyone can feel part of the competition . |
| 16 | For it is indeed a distortion of the historical religion , in a way in which no figure of a man can be ( consider the book showing images of Christ ) , to depict a female Christ . |
| 17 | ( Dennett and Hofstadter , 1982 , p. 7 ) It is indeed a consequence of such a conception that consciousness is not necessarily an attribute only of persons and other organisms . |
| 18 | It is indeed a diversified system with only interrelated aspect represented by the pharmaceutical element , which is part of a substantial development in employment in this sector in South East Northumberland in the post-war years . |
| 19 | " My name is Tran Van Hieu , and it is indeed a pity for your sister , Monsieur Sherman , that she could n't accompany you . |
| 20 | The Royal Society of Portrait Painters reports a threefold increase in commissions in the past three years alone and artists themselves testify that it is indeed a seller 's market . |
| 21 | The other hole indicates to the disk drive hardware that it is indeed a HD floppy . |
| 22 | It is indeed a very forcible piece of work which throws the reader unmercifully into the depths of the world of the author himself . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , if that 's so it is indeed a great pity , Dr Ash , but in view of Dr Prior 's importance to the company you must understand that we have little choice in this matter . |
| 24 | It is indeed a fact that the greatest prize in Europe is the completion of the single market . |
| 25 | One interpretation will make this equivalent to something like the statement that Joseph painted that member of the group of generals who is , or was , not standing ; in this case it is indeed a postnominal attributive adjective joined with its noun in a single noun phrase , used for a single entity-identification . |
| 26 | Mr Harold Macmillan was admittedly fortified by an informal poll of Conservative members and notables , but it may be argued that he should not have been the sole fountainhead of advice , if it is indeed a constitutional principle that a retiring Prime Minister has no special title or status to advise on the choice of his successor . |
| 27 | It is indeed a self-serving statement statement , so , so what does that give us ? |
| 28 | It is indeed a special form of oxygen , an allotrope , but with very different chemical properties . |
| 29 | A ‘ hard case ’ — and I am not disputing that for the Bland parents it is indeed a very hard case — has been found which can , and I believe will , be skilfully exploited to justify the ‘ dignified ’ removal of a subtly-expanding range of people who will be deemed to be living lives which are below some ‘ expert 's ’ criterion of an acceptable standard . |
| 30 | It is indeed a case of ‘ the day of small things ’ and it is the doing of them with good-humoured patience and the appreciation of others doing them that makes the sum of these tiny parts such a very considerable one at the end of the day . |