Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather implausibly said that Christian Doppler himself demonstrated his effect by hiring a brass band to play on an open railway truck as it rushed past his amazed audience . |
| 2 | No doubt this was the real point of the missive , but it is rather vaguely expressed and makes one wonder whether the author really had much idea what had happened . |
| 3 | It is not officially known whether this is attributable to the greenhouse effect or natural climate variability . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is not even known whether some substances which contaminate water are harmful or not . |
| 5 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |
| 6 | Unsolicited information gives rise to difficulties for it is not clearly established whether this may be made subject to an obligation of confidence . |
| 7 | It is not widely realised that Germans of all political complexions have identified the fate of their country with that of Europe . |
| 8 | It is not widely known that Old FF keeps a diary . |
| 9 | For example , it is not widely known that there were turntables at both Bishop 's Castle and Stretford Bridge in the line 's early years , though they seem to have been little used and the railway gained its reputation for unusual working practices right from the start . |
| 10 | It is not universally accepted that these cross-relationship situations are integral to sexual development . |
| 11 | Apart from the load attempted suicide places on health service facilities , it is not yet known whether the high levels of the behaviour in recent years will subsequently be reflected in an increase in the numbers of completed suicides . |
| 12 | But it is not yet known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 13 | Its site was evidently occupied beforehand — the outer walls near the main entrance in the eastern corner extend across the remains of earlier houses — but it is not yet known whether a temple stood there . |
| 14 | It is not yet known whether any revision coming out of the move will be in place for the coming or the following campaign . |
| 15 | It is not yet known whether toothed whales regularly use such a weapon . |
| 16 | It is not yet known whether research would confirm these hypotheses of the character of certain distinct twentieth-century paranational cultural formations , though they provide an initial basis for considering the contradictory character of the history of the avant-garde movements : that they represent sharp and even violent breaks with received and traditional practices ( a dissidence or revolt rather than a literal avant garde ) ; and yet that they become ( in ways separable from the important facts of their dilution and commercial exploitation ) the dominant culture of a succeeding metropolitan and paranational period . |
| 17 | It is not yet known whether a claim in tort can be framed in terms of loss of chance . |
| 18 | It is not yet known whether Russia will attempt to salvage the nuclear submarine that sank off northern Norway in April 1989 . |
| 19 | It is not yet known whether the dormant bacteria can return to the infectious state . |
| 20 | It is not yet known if other symptoms of jet-lag are reduced and there is little clear evidence that they adjust the body clock that controls body temperature and performance rhythms . |
| 21 | However , it is not yet known if NC protein has an additional role during reverse transcription and/or prior to proviral integration . |
| 22 | Although it is not yet known if the H2T cell line expresses TGF α , these findings go some way to support the hypothesis proposed by Korc and others that TGF α may have a role as an autocrine growth stimulator in pancreatic cancer . |
| 23 | It is not yet known if hypobiosis occurs in Oe. radiatum . |
| 24 | While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain . |
| 25 | If we wonder why it is not generally recognised that there are , besides verbal propositions composed of words , mental ones composed of ideas , an explanation is readily available : ‘ it is very difficult to treat of them asunder . |
| 26 | It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful . |
| 27 | It is not generally recommended that anything else is kept with a Red-tail , as they can be very territorial and aggressive . |
| 28 | It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet . |
| 29 | It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action . |
| 30 | It is not generally known that there are more than 1,000 applications a week at the Home Office for political asylum from new arrivals . |