Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is jolly sad that it has come to this but I am not surprised , ’ she said last night . |
| 2 | Continual readjustments of the parts of the body without undue physical tension is most beneficial as it promotes a high standard of health and long life . |
| 3 | One useful strategy in language learning is generalisation , but it is most noticeable when it exists as over-generalisation . |
| 4 | In the primary school , drama is most successful when it emerges as a natural development from children 's play . |
| 5 | The knowledge which research provides is most useful when it goes beyond description of events to providing a basis for future action . |
| 6 | The knowledge which research provides is most useful when it goes beyond a description of events to provide a basis for future action . |
| 7 | The problem is most difficult when it comes to the supplier 's sales and marketing people gaining access to decision-makers . |
| 8 | Automatic defrost is most desirable since it eliminates human error and is energy efficient . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , the ostrich approach is most inappropriate when it comes to systems security . |
| 10 | Many people say that sex is most fulfilling when it expresses the commitment , care , security and understanding of an exclusive friendship . |
| 11 | It is most likely that it had to do with the extra fasts practised by the Pharisees and in this case the disciples of John the Baptist , who may have been mourning the death of their leader . |
| 12 | As an index it is rather unsatisfactory since it tells us very little about how active a person is or what he believes … |
| 13 | Its view of corporate governance is rather limited and it does not properly address corporate governance as the network of accountability relationships that exists between stakeholders in a company . |
| 14 | The incidence of board theft is thankfully low but it does happen . |
| 15 | The Asian music like its poetry is predominantly sacred and it moves Indians powerfully . |
| 16 | Its emphasis is predominantly educational and it employs all the methods , activities and creativity associated with good education ’ ( 5 ) . |
| 17 | Obviously , there is some truth in the old maxim that " you get what you pay for " , but as in many other areas of life , price and value are not always synonymous , and you should be very wary of accepting without questions that something is necessarily better because it costs more . |
| 18 | Detection of a semantic anomaly is highly informative because it indicates that an error may have been made either in understanding the context , or in perceiving the new unit . |
| 19 | The church 's spokesman , Bishop Joseph Duffy , said : ‘ We feel obliged to state that the wording proposed is basically flawed because it guarantees less than the total exclusion of deliberate abortion . ’ |
| 20 | In a profession like medicine this is especially apparent because it stretches over the whole spectrum of human activities . |
| 21 | Psychological knowledge is unavoidably ambiguous , and this is especially clear when it involves relatively ill-defined , social aspects of subjectivity , like gender . |
| 22 | Wall-mounted spotlights are useful , but the ability to reposition the light slightly as well as alter the direction of the beam is especially desirable as it enables different features to be highlighted as the seasons change . |
| 23 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 24 | The case of " you know what I mean " is especially interesting because it does not fall into any of the traditional categories of lexis , grammar or phonology . |
| 25 | The MOUTH vowel [ P9 ] is especially interesting because it shows all the possible variants , from the extreme basilectal variant which occurs before /n/ in sound [ ] through the JC/JE variant [ ] and [ ] , something close to RP in down [ ] to the Cockney variant in [ ] twice . |
| 26 | Cooper 's theme of the dying-out of the Mohican tribe is somewhat muted although it emerges very powerfully in the finale , and the whole Indian business is somewhat sidetracked by the romance , the spectacle and , most of all , the chase . |
| 27 | The definition of connected person is somewhat complex but it includes a director , the director 's relatives and companies within a group . |
| 28 | Gentle the adult may be , but the tiny yellow and brown larvae are definitely not , and is fiercely active as it attacks greenfly with relish . |
| 29 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 30 | Indeed it was runner-up in the European Car of the Year Award , which is only right because it looks and feels like a European car . |