Example sentences of "it is [adj] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er i this is why it 's important that you mix with people , that you get out and about , because if you find that everybody else is , is getting up the hill faster than you and everybody else is crossing the roads quicker than you and all the rest of it , it should tell you something , now I mean I do n't even want to go into competition but I think it is good occasionally to see if you can walk as fast as that eighteen year old in front of you . |
| 2 | It is meaningless therefore to ask whether people are less willing to look after their elderly relatives than in the past , when this particular dimension of family obligation was simply not put to the test for most people in previous generations . |
| 3 | But in doing the balancing act it is necessary also to consider whether an injustice will be perpetrated if a local authority does not have the right to protect its governing reputation by an action for libel , and whether such an action , if available to a local authority , would be proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued . |
| 4 | It is relevant here to ask whether such a principle is likely to be honoured in the kind of schools , proposed primarily though not exclusively for the inner cities , to be known as City Technology Colleges . |
| 5 | The opportunity may , therefore , exist for settlement at this stage and there is no doubt that it is preferable so to proceed than to achieve settlement at the door of the Court . |