Example sentences of "it is [adj] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Fundamentally , politicians in our system are almost always guided by two considerations : first , short-term gains , since their horizons stretch only to the next election ; second , public pressure if it is strong enough to suggest that votes depend on their response .
2 Although perhaps vulnerable to strong winds in this position , in lighter winds it is stable enough to ensure that no tyres are needed .
3 However , it is good enough to say that light entering one end of the fibre will reflect repeatedly along its length and eventually emerge at the other end ( see Fig 4 ) .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Moreover , in order to establish the significance to be attached to any particular statement , it is necessary both to consider and to understand the context in which it was made .
8 This whole matter was destined to create much controversy and is addressed further below , but it is necessary here to note that the problem was of concern to the Rapporteur , Mr. Taborda Ferreira of Portugal , who expressed his anxieties in his commentary on the preliminary draft .
9 Here it is necessary merely to stress that an applicant has the right of appeal to the secretary of state against conditional permissions and refusals .
10 That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Even at the design stage it is useful also to recognise that all this material will require procedures for updating in the light of experience
14 It is invisible once applied and users retain full sense of touch and natural mobility of hands .
15 As with any accountability procedure it is insufficient just to indicate that a failure has occurred ; information must be forthcoming on how to improve educational practice .
16 The requirement of full disclosure of all material facts means that it is insufficient merely to disclose that the firm has an interest or to put the customer on enquiry .
17 It is easy enough to accept that a child 's first word should label its mother , until we start to think about it : why should a child connect sounds with objects at all ?
18 It is easy enough to assert that active transport across membranes occurs , but much harder to explain how .
19 It is easy now to see that the problem of papal authority was the one problem of outstanding importance among many minor questions raised in these letters .
20 It is true enough to say that we would have no conception of it .
21 However , you will recognize the rotation even when it is large enough to ensure that , in most cases , the nearest neighbour is not the image .
22 From the lifetime budget constraint , one can see the equivalence of an expenditure base and lifetime receipts ; it is important however to note that the timing is different , and hence any taxes levied will be liable at different dates .
23 It is important also to remember that a post or pension given to a member could be a reward for past services as well as a means of securing future ones .
24 With a postal questionnaire , it is important also to check that the layout is neither confusing nor encouraging any particular response .
25 It is important also to note that we are not implying that any major catastrophe will occur should the stress level continue to rise so high that the glass spills over .
26 It is important here to stress that it is not just hitting to the target that is foremost , but at all times moving the feet to take the ball in one bounce .
27 It is important here to note that Rule 3 applies only if it is the seller who is to do the weighing , measuring , testing , etc .
28 At the moment , it is important only to note that the prospective sale of the industry and the opening up of competition within electricity generation produced a fundamental dilemma .
29 It is important then to realise that ischaemic heart disease has different natural histories with different manifestations .
30 It is interesting also to note that ‘ … people give the roots of the Petasites vulgaris , which abounds , to the cattle in winter ’ .
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