Example sentences of "[coord] it is [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is once referred to by the chronicler , Matthew Paris [ q.v. ] , as ‘ Master Longespee ’ and it is thus possible that he was a son of William Longespée , third Earl of Salisbury ( died 1226 , q.v. ) , who was Henry III 's uncle . |
| 2 | The theoretical territory attached to this hillfort , as suggested by Ian Burrow , is very similar to the land defined in the seventh-century charter , and it is thus possible that the estate of the hillfort persisted throughout the Roman period to emerge as a land unit belonging to Glastonbury Abbey until the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | The colon in these animals is a smooth , uniform tube , without sacculations or teniae , and it is approximately C-shaped and devoid of the sharp angulations seen in man . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , with all their drawbacks , panels are interesting ways of collecting information and it is rather surprising that they have not been used more in academic research where ideas rather than pin-point accuracy of measurement may be the desired goal . |
| 5 | But there is some strain on the heart and it is rather large and it is n't working so well . |
| 6 | IT IS NOT unusual for scientific predictions to be made long before techniques are available to test them — and it is particularly satisfying when such predictions are at last fulfilled . |
| 7 | And it is particularly inappropriate when applied to the world 's waters . |
| 8 | Ideally the classes support the work done on the production project and it is particularly valuable if there is strong liaison between voice and movement tutors with the director of a project — not least in helping students see how the instructional classes connect with their own performances . |
| 9 | He is horrified by the contemptuous way in which fat Establishment cats speak of workers and it is particularly unfortunate that his enthusiastic support for co-operatives should have foundered because he backed dodgy horses . |
| 10 | The sets of annals known collectively as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are major texts for pre-Conquest history , and it is particularly unfortunate that their entries for Cnut 's reign are both uninformative and ( after 1023 ) increasingly sparse . |
| 11 | The problem in considering the future of fertilizers is rather to consider the changes which will occur in world agriculture , and it is already apparent that they will be many . |
| 12 | Physiotherapist Bernard Thomas tells Lloyd to touch his nose , and it is soon clear that his vision is impaired . |
| 13 | Diana , it seems , has no critics within the portals of San L 's , as the Sloanes call it , and it is little wonder that Prince Charles has never been seen descending its stairs . |
| 14 | But centralised provision of materials reduces the opportunity for ‘ contextualisation ’ — and it is little wonder that many board members perceived the published training material and the area sessions as lacking in relevance . |
| 15 | One very urgent and necessary reason for our absence is that next Friday my opera is being performed again and it is most essential that I should be present . |
| 16 | And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church . |
| 17 | These two buildings were , therefore , clearly under military control , and it is most likely that they represented a collection centre for the annona militaris , a tax thought to have been introduced by Severus . |
| 18 | During the drying process particle aggregation may occur and it is most important that sieve residues should be checked , using a hand lens where necessary , to detect the presence of aggregates which form clusters considerably larger than the original single component grains . |
| 19 | No academic libraries since the time of the Travelling Workshops Experiment have successfully applied the strategy and it is most unlikely that illuminative evaluation ‘ in toto ’ will ever get the opportunity to prove itself in academic user education , largely because of the lack of time to pursue it in full . |
| 20 | There was no adequate trading base for this financial performance , and it is most unlikely that the promoters ever thought that there was . |
| 21 | The police have been criticised for their low prosecution record in rape cases and it is most unlikely that domestic rape would have been dealt with more enthusiastically . |
| 22 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |
| 23 | Such interaction between traditions is of special interest and it is most unfortunate that so little is known about the hoard 's original find spot . |
| 24 | All rabbits carry fleas and it is most significant that does , as the result of being in recent contact with a nest , always appear to have the greatest infestations . |
| 25 | It affected the Midland counties most of all , and it is here more than anywhere that we find the planned landscape of Georgian times . |
| 26 | However it is also valuable to practise out loud by yourself , and it is even better if you can tape record your answers so that you can hear how you sound . |
| 27 | A version of it may have heartened the Normans in 1066 ; and it is even possible that the earliest surviving version was composed in Normandy . |
| 28 | Most listed companies do not yet have enough independent directors to fulfil the roles Cadbury allots them , and it is even doubtful whether enough individuals of the right calibre are available for these positions , particularly in view of the heavy legal responsibilities that any company director incurs . |
| 29 | The Library is restricted in its efforts in this direction by the traditional layout of the present Exhibition Room , and it is clearly desirable that , when resources permit , the Library should contrive to have a new Exhibition Room adapted to the requirements of modern exhibitions . |
| 30 | Indeed , the existence of soil degradation and erosion is contingent on an enormous variety of human and physiographic variables , and it is probably impossible and counter-productive to attempt a single theory of soil erosion . |