Example sentences of "it is [adj] [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is spectacular even in its present , relatively primitive form . |
| 2 | The car is travelling at about 100 mph on the straights and braking hard before corners ; but it is stable enough for me to make notes and so quiet in the leather and teak-lined cabin that we can easily hear each other through out helmets . |
| 3 | It is revolutionary too in its scope , for it has implications for a whole range of academic subjects in the arts and the social sciences . |
| 4 | The story goes that when the House of Commons was discussing this issue , a leading politician was heard to exclaim : ‘ If the Book of Common prayer was good enough for St Paul , it is good enough for me ! ‘ |
| 5 | That decision was passed unanimously and if it is good enough for us it should be good enough for the Tories . |
| 6 | We hear thunder when it is close enough for its highest frequencies to reach us , but it also generates infrasonic sounds which travel much further . |
| 7 | ‘ It is close enough for me to get on . ’ |
| 8 | It is simple enough for him to show that a boxing match takes place within a general totality of ‘ boxing ’ , which is itself only ever present in any individual incarnation , for as a game each match is both an individual bout and something conducted according to general rules and a specific social tradition . |
| 9 | Or , as John Wisdom was later to put it , ‘ the peculiarity of the soul is not that it is visible to none but that it is visible only to one ’ . |
| 10 | It is all up to you — and I decided that I was never going to say anything to her because I had done it all on my own . |
| 11 | If my husband goes to Rome then it is all up with me . ’ |
| 12 | It is all there for you , and we will endeavour to answer any questions that you may have . |
| 13 | It is all there at you finger-tips if only you could read it |
| 14 | It will take a super-human effort on the part of the players to survive in the top bracket , but they know that it is all down to them now — they will have no excuses if they fail . |
| 15 | It is all down to what we have to do in our coming matches . |
| 16 | But … if , as they say , this is all in the mind , ie it is all down to your guilty conscience — excuse the expression — why not do something about it ? |
| 17 | Anyone who is reasonably skilful can knock up a mounting without difficulty , and it is possible even for someone who is as clumsy as I am . |
| 18 | ‘ It is permissible only for you to torment me ? ’ he asked thickly . |
| 19 | However , among the lucky or sheltered it is common enough for someone to have the uneasy feeling that he is living too comfortably , might find himself unprepared to cope if his present security were to collapse , lacks adequate understanding of miseries outside his experience . |
| 20 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 21 | Even this severe shaking , however , failed to cause alarm amongst the local people ; they had by that time been living with the eruption for many weeks , and it is remarkable just to what extent familiarity of even something as exceptional as a volcanic eruption can breed contempt . |
| 22 | It is natural enough for them to want to acquire knowledge from their elders . |
| 23 | But it is clear enough to anyone dealing in checks who thinks about the matter that it is in the public interest to deny collection in those circumstances . |
| 24 | In this respect it is incompatible both with what precedes it and more generally with other evidence of classical interpretation . |
| 25 | ‘ It is hard enough for me to run my practice here , seeing that I am that strange animal , a gentleman . |