Example sentences of "[noun pl] it is [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 In most psychiatric units it is now usually considered inappropriate to have one member of staff constantly accompany a patient at risk .
2 Primary teachers normally teach English as part of an integrated curriculum , whereas in secondary schools it is more usually taught in timetabled slots by subject specialists .
3 But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly .
4 There is ample evidence that tied cottages have been used oppressively by farmers in the past in order , for example , to strangle incipient trade unionism in the countryside , bit except in a small minority of cases it is no longer used as an oppressive weapon of petty political domination : rather it is the carrot which will tempt the farm worker to accept a low wage .
5 Zande thus believe this power to be sex-linked and consider that it increases with age : children may be capable of bewitching , but the power is weakly developed in them ; in mature adults it is more strongly realized .
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