Example sentences of "is [adj] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether humanitarian intervention is legitimate within the terms of the United Nations Charter is controversial precisely because it permits a derogation of State sovereignty on behalf of individual rights . |
| 2 | At a push boiling oil on its own will do the job , but a typical mixture has corrosive properties and is sticky so that it adheres to exposed flesh . |
| 3 | The law , she thinks , is strong enough as it stands . |
| 4 | The latter alternative is possible here since it does not result in crossing the tune with the bass . |
| 5 | This is interesting both because it suggests that non-Hebbian forms of potentiation occur in the hippocampus , and because it provides implicit evidence for the existence of a diffusible extracellular messenger ( see text ) . |
| 6 | Snake venom is usually clear yellow and is dangerous only if it gets into the bloodstream . |
| 7 | ‘ Reality is bendy enough as it stands , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The most celebrated of all the northern constellations is distinctive even though it contains no star as bright as the first magnitude . |
| 9 | All was well algae-wise apart from a smear of brown algae on the glass , some beard algae on the bogwood and on some of the slow-growing plants and what I now know to be the tell-tale sign of a thin greasy film on the water surface , which is present long before it thickens up into slime algae . |
| 10 | On the other hand we all know that any social and political change — call it revolution or not , it does n't really matter — is meaningful only if it builds new institutions . |
| 11 | It is important particularly because it draws together both coercion and hegemony in the state . |
| 12 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 13 | Extra-Statutory Concession D2 has also been amended as far as an individual is concerned so that it does not apply to a settlor of a resident or non-resident " settlor-interested " settlement . |
| 14 | It is recognisable even when it appears in feminist dress , as it does , for example , in these remarks of Hester Eisenstein ( 1984 ) : ‘ I argue that feminist theory has moved from an emphasis on the elimination of gender difference to a celebration of that difference as a source of moral values . |
| 15 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 16 | A cat inhibits the desire to chase the bird until it is ready so that it has the highest chance of success . |
| 17 | Hence , to the extent that consent is justified non-instrumentally as a constitutive element in a relationship between a citizen and his society , it is valid only if it exists between a citizen and a reasonably just society . |
| 18 | In-service training is desirable only when it fulfils a felt need . |
| 19 | I stress local : Verkhovensky 's group psychology is plausible enough but it does n't engage with anything wider or further that he proposes to do . |