Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [conj] it is [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ?
2 It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all .
3 Koons says that it is exactly this childlike aspect that makes her vulnerable to the tacky mandarins of the porn industry , whom Koons loathes , despite the mountain of mad flesh in Made in Heaven .
4 The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down .
5 And if it is n't honey , the absence of that taste will cause Pooh to believe that it is n't honey .
6 While ACORN 's most obvious application is in market analysis , advertising and direct marketing , CACI argues that it is equally relevant to the sales manager for setting equitable targets for different sales territories .
7 Lexical variation of this type is widespread in Durham and is not restricted to items belonging to any particular grammatical class ; Kerswill reports that it is particularly salient as a sociolinguistic marker sensitive both to the age and social class of the speaker ; but unlike either CSPs or other phonological variables , it is affected very little by speech style .
8 Questions of office profitability would lead to greater centralisation , as firms such as KPMG and Touche recognise that it is more expensive to run their ‘ franchise ’ structures .
9 Tom adds that it is very important for young horses to have their teeth checked before they are bitted and broken ; racehorses usually have their first session at two years-old .
10 Beattie concludes that it is only during the hesitant phase of a speech cycle that the clause is a major unit of speech planning .
11 He says that he will not go to Maputo until he receives the money that the UN promised to him and to other party leaders to start up their election campaign ; the UN says that it is still waiting for the donors to deliver the money .
12 ‘ Not really , because we wrote the songs before Phil left and it is n't our new drummer on the album , apart from one track ; it 's a mystery subscriber on the other tracks . ’
13 Mr Delors insists that it is up to the pontifical authorities to check that everything is above board .
14 Wittgenstein argued that it is not possible to spell out necessary and sufficient conditions for an activity to be a game .
15 Bergman 's ( 1979 ) comments on Sweden indicate that it is also a belief which has appeared in other countries .
16 The ISE is sceptical of these developments , although critics of the ISE argue that it is only interested in large companies and particularly in developing the international equity market at the expense of smaller domestic equities .
17 Mr Wakeley feels that it is not cost effective to use more machines : ‘ You ca n't have all your staff training at the same time .
18 Indeed , Poulantzas suggests that it is precisely the relative autonomy of the bureaucracy as a specific social category from the ruling class which is so important , under certain conditions of capitalism , for the hegemony of the whole class .
19 The practical difficulties of nursing a sick relative can be very great , but Pitkeathley agrees that it is often the emotional upset of having to bath a previously fastidious mother , or pretend your father has spilt his tea when the bed is wet , or simply having to make all the decisions for a once strong parent , which cases the most upset .
20 The House of Lords disagreed and it is now the law that it may be enough for the transaction to contain an element of bounty if it is of the kind conferred by the exercise of a special power of appointment .
21 Weightlessness apparently does no great harm , so President George Bush says that it is now time to send people to Mars .
22 In discussing identity formation at adolescence , Erikson posits that it is partly ‘ dependent on the process by which a society ( often through subsocieties ) identifies the young individual , recognising him as someone who had to become the way he is and who , being the way he is , is taken for granted .
23 Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson said that it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House of Commons to decide whether such privilege has been infringed .
24 AT&T says that it is already using the two components in its New Generation Testing system that troubleshoots toll-free 800 number services and can pinpoint problems on up to 42 lines simultaneously .
25 AT&T says that it is now exploring the possibility of marketing the components externally .
26 However , the C compiler now has to be bought separately as it is no longer to be bundled with Solaris : SunPro claims that it is no longer a necessary item for customers .
27 But , although Jacques claims that it is massively frustrating to watch Julie tripping round the flat half-naked and not be able to touch her , Mr Moore fails to project the necessary dashed and deviant desire .
28 The BJP knows that it is still unfit to govern .
29 The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field .
30 Generalizing rather , it is probably true to say that Hawaiian-type eruptions are more common on the oceanic island volcanoes than elsewhere ( though the examples of Nyiragongo and Nyamlagira emphasize that it is only a generalization ) , since it is in these environments that the fluid basalt lavas are most likely to be found .
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