Example sentences of "[adj] it [is] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Once you actually receive a copy of this it 's in two parts .
2 Before resorting to this it is worth ensuring that the injection technique is satisfactory and the injection sites are healthy .
3 Yet before deciding on the implications of this it is worth examining the texts of the other jurists .
4 ‘ If you succeed ’ , he went on , ‘ you will have hundreds of miles of country and thousands of men under your orders , and for this it is worth bartering the outward show . ’
5 On this it is worth quoting the comments of Lord Justice Lawton in a letter to The Times .
6 Though nothing came of this it is of interest because it anticipates the ‘ Cold War ’ methods by which Persia sought to infiltrate Greece in the second half of the century .
7 Much high praise has already come Mohicans ' way and it has done astounding US box-office business , but despite this it is on occasion a flawed film with a sometimes patchy pace and a structure that wobbles in the final 30 minutes .
8 Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) .
9 Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to .
10 Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter .
11 So we might say , Well our overall confidence is two but our relative confidence which is saying how different it is from everything else is only one .
12 Where waters are quite clear it is worth spending as much time as possible gazing from bridges , the banks or trees .
13 It says this is the only number you want but as read it and said well it does n't really make it clear it 's for reservations and bookings and it does n't really so we 'll just have to make sure that it damn well happens on the advert .
14 Again we see how much easier it is to be absolute in allegiance to a doctrine rather than to enquire into the beliefs upon which it is founded .
15 The fitter we become and the more energy we expend on a regular basis , the easier it is for us to maintain our new figure .
16 If parents and nurses would only realise how much easier it is for the child to bend to the social and moral laws in later life , when trained from infancy , how much sorrow might be saved .
17 Thus , the more mobile a dipolar group , the easier it is for it to follow the electric field up to higher frequencies , whereas the less mobile groups can only orient at lower frequencies .
18 ‘ The more information we can get from the public the easier it is for us to tackle criminals and make life in the town better for everyone , ’ he said .
19 Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender .
20 Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate .
21 Funny it 's on the tip of my tongue
22 If the potential rewards are high it is worth pursuing , but knowing when to stop is not easy , and formalized methods of planning are not always easy to apply .
23 And it also tells me how high it is in the sky .
24 ‘ Unless we can think of something really clever , I 'm afraid it 's about all we can do .
25 ‘ Exactly , but I 'm afraid it 's on a need to know basis .
26 ‘ I 'm afraid it 's on its way , ’ he shouted above the hammering as she jumped out of the car .
27 As in Chapter 2 it is worth stressing that for predictive valuation purposes P , i , t ; + 1 and D , i , t ; + 1 are uncertain quantities .
28 If the meme is a scientific idea , its spread will depend on how acceptable it is to the population of individual scientists ; a rough measure of its survival value could be obtained by counting the number of times it is referred to in successive years in scientific journals .
29 ‘ I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again .
30 Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason .
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