Example sentences of "it is [adv] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It is simply that a permissive culture which makes increasingly fewer demands on the egos and superegos of its citizens where self-restraint , postponement of gratification and drive-inhibition in general are concerned must — unless it is to dissolve in anarchy — abrogate those restraining , controlling and inhibiting functions to itself and to its agencies of social control . |
2 | But for a handful of obvious reasons , Lewis does not draw a picture of ‘ the whole man ’ in Surprised by Joy It is partly that a natural reticence made him draw a veil over the two greatest facts of his emotional history : his relationships with his father and Mrs Moore . |
3 | It is here that a massive scoreboard confronts the players , the numbers changed slowly , tantalisingly , by hand . |
4 | It is here that a true designing system will be based and will grow from an understanding of the conceptual activities , how they are developed and controlled . |
5 | It is here that an individual anthropomorphic interpretation of each animal enters the process and overlays generalised documentation . |
6 | It is here that an anthropological observing participation comes into its own , for in living with the semantics of the system the analyst has the potential to undertake a rarely used method of social research . |
7 | When the itching does begin it is probably because an allergic or sensitivity reaction has been set up . |
8 | By implication , these models should not be used , as they often are , to evaluate different policy regimes , since it is precisely when a different policy regime is adopted that they become unreliable . |
9 | It must comprehend alternatives in policy , since it is only if an electoral decision can alter the actions of government that popular control can be said to be established … |