Example sentences of "is [conj] it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it is or it is n't does n't matter what does matter is its ' performance and to test this you have to fit the device . |
| 2 | The third aspect of the egalitarian feminist address to sex differences psychology is that it is increasingly trying to take the diversity of these differences into account . |
| 3 | One of the most important aspects of deixis is that it is invariably distinguished by its use . |
| 4 | If there 's one thing that is clear about desktop publishing it is that it is NOT publishing , a fact that often seems to escape those who sell it . |
| 5 | Its great merit is that it is not confined to particular activities , and therefore has an across-the-board application to different sources of endangerment . |
| 6 | Perhaps its most important aspect is that it is not confined to a particular region . |
| 7 | What worries me is that it is not going to end there . |
| 8 | I thought driving up today would have been a good day but the reality is that it is not going to start until Easter time . |
| 9 | The problem with Channel 5 is that it is not lying empty , like a new motorway just waiting for somebody to cut the ribbon . |
| 10 | The problem in Europe is that it is already becoming difficult to decide where ultimately authority does reside . |
| 11 | A second advantage of the approach is that it is largely confined to observable empirical phenomena . |
| 12 | She says : ‘ People have a very cliched view of the middle East , but my impression , having been to three or four Arab countries , is that it is grossly misrepresented in the western press . |
| 13 | ‘ What people never take into account about the M25 is that it is also designed as a defence barrier against an invading force . |
| 14 | The real problem with formal education is that it is n't meant to make everyone almost equally successful . |
| 15 | The first point is that it is generally recognized that ritual tends to increase , intensify and shift in focus at times of social crisis . |
| 16 | One difference between a vintage wine and any other is that it is generally made from the grapes of only one year , rather than a blend from several . |
| 17 | A further reason is that it is commonly found that eighteen months into recovery is a particular period of disillusion and difficulty . |
| 18 | The struggle systematically to open up the domestic and intimate relations of the normal kin-based nuclear household is premised on the belief that what is chiefly at fault with the conventional family household is that it is excessively closed and rigid . |
| 19 | While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so . |
| 20 | A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit . |
| 21 | NB : It is important that this is taken into account when calculating the cost of goods sold as our experience is that it is often overlooked . |
| 22 | The great defect in such writing is that it is often structured by questions of the form Who discovered such and such a fact first ? or Who first anticipated such and such a concept ? |
| 23 | The idea is that it is then recaptured , but it will now be streetwise , so to speak , and good to train for hunting . |
| 24 | One of the problems with the prison service is that it is directly driven by civil servants and largely made up of civil servants . |
| 25 | What is perhaps most remarkable about this grassland is that it is only maintained under active management even rabbits were introduced by the Normans and , although it resembles some periglacial assemblages of plants , it must have been reconstituted after the forest maximum unless there were extensive grazed glades in that period . |
| 26 | Most political analysts think Peru 's main problem is that it is deeply divided , by race , by geography and by extremes of income . |
| 27 | So as you said the danger is that it 's not balanced for our delegates and the ideal is that we want the combination of all four . |
| 28 | ‘ What I was going to say is that it 's not working out , is it ? |
| 29 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
| 30 | ‘ It would be really cool if everybody was up there in the photos , ’ says Neneh , ‘ but the slightly tacky side of the pop star stuff is that it 's all focused on one person . ’ |