Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all ideas , it is most easily controlled if it is first given a name . |
| 2 | It is most often used when there is an internal conflict of feeling . |
| 3 | It is most often used where a salesperson is faced with the same objection being raised time after time . |
| 4 | More and more parents every year are opting for independent schooling for their children : it is no longer seen as exclusively the preserve of a privileged class . |
| 5 | Though Catholicism is championed in the end , it is no longer portrayed as having the power to protect one from the extremes of madness and sin . |
| 6 | It is also not known if spirits such as whisky also contain these byproducts of fermentation or whether they are removed during the process of distillation . |
| 7 | To the untutored eye , this picture of the personality of the creative individual might seem far distant from that of the psychotic ; it is certainly often cited as evidence against the two being connected . |
| 8 | It is easy to be critical of prejudice in the lives of others , particularly when it is as small minded as that of Phyllis . |
| 9 | It is too soon to predict whether these will be successful in the longer-term but they , together with other measures , have highlighted to staff the necessity of increasing research activity , both in terms of output and generating research income . |
| 10 | Small shareholders ' champion Gideon Fiegel — the man who led the revolt against Sugar — has won a battle , but it is too soon to say whether or not he has won the war . |
| 11 | They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment . |
| 12 | It is too soon to know if the initiative will touch off an Italian-style mop-up of Brazil 's mob . |
| 13 | Now it is standing at a huge sum , growing rapidly , and it is still not going where it is needed ’ . |
| 14 | Among the Buid , momentary expressions of anger may be viewed in the first instance as indicative of a momentary desire to harm another , but if such conduct becomes persistent or habitual it is almost always reinterpreted as being caused by hostile mystical forces and thus as not being under the deliberate control of the individual . |
| 15 | Part of the task of the modern tobacco promoter is to make the smoking habit appear clean and healthy , and to imply that it is all right to smoke if we take plenty of exercise . |
| 16 | This byroad was formerly the main highway ; it is now little used although it is kept in good repair to serve the few local farmsteads . |
| 17 | Westphalian ham is darker in colour than Parma and Bayonne ; it is more heavily smoked than Bayonne and is aged before selling . |
| 18 | This appears to have been known locally as Cinderford Mill , although it is more widely remembered as Brights Corn Mill , the last miller being Samuel Bright . |
| 19 | It is more generally understood as pain that is made worse rather than better by increasing doses of morphine . |
| 20 | At this stage it is so far extended as to receive a supply of sand from the original barchan even during the prevailing wind , X. Thus it will continue to grow both during the prevailing wind , X , and the strong wind , Y , with slip faces developed on the side away from the strong wind . |