Example sentences of "is [vb pp] and [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often said , for example , that the Indonesian island of Bali is ruined and that it has n't been worth going to since the 1930s , but to walk through a Balinese night breathing the warm silk of tropical air accompanied by the croaking of frogs and the distant gongs and gamelan music of a temple celebration is a magical experience . |
| 2 | Make double hems where extra weight is needed and provided it looks right visually . |
| 3 | This method of deciding the right time to sow was recommended by Fitzherbert , the sixteenth-century writer on agriculture : ‘ go upon the land that is plowed and if it synge or crye or make any noise under they fete , then it is to wet to sowe . |
| 4 | Causality is here contrasted with indeterminacy : either one pretends that the origin of psychological peculiarities is known and that it has the force of explanation , as in classical psychoanalysis , or one chooses to relinquish this concept and to see identity as a matter of discontinuity and flux . |
| 5 | Class , race and gender differences can determine the quality of transition in terms of what training is provided and where it leads . |
| 6 | For a considerable time , at least some of us have questioned where the IRA is trained and where it comes from . |
| 7 | It is also a question of understanding power itself , how it is exerted and where it lies . |