Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is clear is that it is social activities — such as the provision of kindergartens , youth clubs and advice centres — which would be hit first by any change to the levy . |
| 2 | What is also clear is that it was the weaker and poorer sections of the public that were harassed most . |
| 3 | What is already clear is that it has been a success in developing our own AI-skilled personnel . |
| 4 | What is clear is that it evolved out of the neolithic Cretan religion and that the religion of the classical Greeks at least in part grew out of it . |
| 5 | What is much less clear is that it is the answer to all problems , or that it has even solved the problems its proponents themselves recognized . |
| 6 | But what is also clear is that it is unfair to litigants that they should meet the cost of a second appeal , one of the principal purposes of which is to resolve issues of law of general public importance . |
| 7 | In our view , although the Code extends beyond the treatment of those in detention , what is clear is that it was intended to protect suspects who are vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers or who may believe themselves to be so . |
| 8 | What is clear is that it was by looking at these eastern arts , whose strict conventions embodied far more of nature than the near-abstract Geometric , that Greek artists were able to break from that and establish a comparable style of their own . |
| 9 | The weakness of this is that it fails to view the implications of the spending when it makes its impact but only when the spending actually takes place . |
| 10 | What 's good about this is that it does n't take too much time . |
| 11 | The snag with this is that it is often impossible to avoid the triggering events altogether and in any case it might be better to face them squarely and control your reactions to the events rather than the events themselves . |
| 12 | One advantage of this is that it 's not always the most expensive guitars that sound the best . |
| 13 | One reason for this is that it is easier to measure , and therefore control , performance if management can observe precisely what workers are doing . |
| 14 | The probable significance of all this is that it is mistaken to attempt to generalize about employers ' attitudes to young workers . |
| 15 | Erm the general response to this is that it was a failure . |
| 16 | The corollary of this is that it is women who are expected to undertake the reproduction of labour-power within the family , whether they also have waged jobs or not . |
| 17 | The difficulty with this is that it is an appeal to the future , and it concedes the debate about the present to the Right . |
| 18 | They do relate this to the capitalist character of industry , and to the market economy , but the restructuring school would argue that the implication of this is that it is important to specify the particular capitalist nature of industry . |
| 19 | The difficulty with this is that it is not obvious how the extra baryon concentration would come about — cooling would be unimportant in the outer parts of clusters , so the gas would not naturally sink inwards as in a so-called cooling flow . |
| 20 | The difficulty with this is that it makes the question of A's liability to C turn on what may be a purely technical contravention of the law by A which is of no real concern to C. Further , there are uncertainties in the meaning of ‘ unlawful ’ for this purpose . |
| 21 | One argument advanced for this is that it makes no sense to include mortality data in a formula for resource allocation as dead people make no use of health services . |
| 22 | One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames . |
| 23 | On a portable , the justification for this is that it reduces the weight , but the BJ-200 is n't a portable . |
| 24 | To return to our earlier example , a consequence of this is that it will not be possible to claim on valid grounds that " Men exist " or rather " actually exist " , reduces to , and can be replaced tout court by " ( Ex ) x is a man . |
| 25 | But a corollary of this is that it is in principle impossible to describe accurately any x as numerically identical at any given stage of its existence , until , that is , its life-cycle has been completed , for its numerical identity depends upon all its properties . |
| 26 | The disadvantage of this is that it creates all the lingering resentment and hostility of ‘ win/lose ’ situation . |
| 27 | The principal justification offered for this is that it triggers discussion between the police and organisers , and prevents demonstrators from springing surprises on the police . |
| 28 | The reason for this is that it is in the discount market that the authorities conduct those operations which they hope will influence monetary conditions in the economy . |
| 29 | Install a hard drive instead of one of the floppies — the advantage of this is that it is the least expensive but the major disadvantage is my complete lack of technical knowledge and the need to purchase and install the controller which I understand my machine does not have . |
| 30 | The conclusion Sampson draws from this is that it is extremely difficult to determine the boundary between what is grammatical and ungrammatical if such a high proportion of grammatical expansions are very rare . |