Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 2 | I know that if I suddenly start feeling pains anywhere in my body , I do n't have to worry that it is the side effects of drugs , as , regrettably , some athletes do . |
| 3 | Whatever you can make of equation [ 9 ] there is no denying that it is a differential equation , not so very different in its way from the differential equations that Newton and Maxwell had used when they had created the fundamental basis of classical physics . |
| 4 | It seems to be commonly supposed that it is description rather than theory as such which makes the most direct contribution to language teaching . |
| 5 | Furthermore , my own analysis of the Technics arrangement suggest that it is sensitive to loudspeaker impedance variations ; under some conditions the performance is worse with the subsidiary amplifier than it would be without it . |
| 6 | I suggest that it is sad that a way of life that is so ancient is ending , but Per Ivar is less convinced . |
| 7 | The first is more intense , with the buck putting up a spirited resistance ; in the second its lolling tongue and gentler stance suggest that it is about to succumb . |
| 8 | I suggest that it is humanism — both religious and secular — that is the dominant philosophical adversary . |
| 9 | They suggest that it is possible to use satellite remotely sensed data to help inform population mapping by allowing cross-area estimation and some element of areal disaggregation . |
| 10 | Few reports about this species are received annually , but these suggest that it is some three to four times scarcer than the Common Partridge . |
| 11 | Now that men and women live longer , many people suggest that it is unrealistic to expect to sustain one marriage for a lifetime . |
| 12 | Various ways of studying water strongly suggest that it is in a similar category — that is , it is a fluid containing clusters of water polymers of varying sizes which are continually changing and reforming . |
| 13 | I suggest that it is a confused notion . |
| 14 | Others suggest that it is due to an extraordinary recent burst of star formation . |
| 15 | Friedman and Rosenman ( 1974 ) suggest that it is not a question of getting rid of Type-A behaviour , rather that we should learn to manage it . |
| 16 | Our results suggest that it is wrong to assume that patients will become unduly anxious if they are warned about most of the potential risks of surgical treatment , at least as far as inguinal herniorrhaphy and general anaesthesia are concerned . |
| 17 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 18 | However that may be , we suggest that it is more important to have committed members than representative ones , and in this regard our evaluation of the Coordinating Team is very positive . |
| 19 | Some suggest that it is more important to be able to bring political pressure to bear , so that the elected representatives of whatever sex will pass legislation of benefit to women . |
| 20 | In fact , however , international comparisons strongly suggest that it is not the most downtrodden and deprived who provide the most militant source of protest . |
| 21 | ‘ without going into further detail I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract . |
| 22 | This growth in women 's propensity to take paid work probably has both economic and social origins , but our analyses of fertility suggest that it is not an important explanatory factor in the ‘ baby bust ’ . |
| 23 | Does All an suggest that it is ? |
| 24 | Its rather strange style finds its nearest parallels in the third quarter of the century , and primitive elements in the technique suggest that it is an early piece of its kind . |
| 25 | There are , for instance , several conflicting claims concerning the function of the Japanese suffix -wa : some suggest that it is an obligatory marker of topic ( this claim is implicit in Li , 1976 : 465 ) ; others suggest that it marks given information ( see 5.1.2. below for an explanation of given vs new information ) . |
| 26 | If the affidavits suggest that it is more likely than not that the defendant would succeed in establishing a statutory immunity that is a weighty factor in favour of refusing to grant an injunction . |
| 27 | Preliminary data suggest that it is effective but decreases serum hepatitis C virus RNA at a slower rate than interferon alfa . |
| 28 | ‘ I suggest that it is not a matter which a man wishes his employer to know about . ’ |
| 29 | These results may be due to chance , but the figures suggest that it is worth trying to do semi-automatic correction . |
| 30 | Bathymetric records suggest that it is a bathyal species with its lower limit in the upper abyssal zone . |