Example sentences of "[pron] it is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tells himself it is only panic . |
| 2 | Its major recommendation , and certainly the one for which it is most often remembered , was ‘ that homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private be no longer a criminal offence ’ . |
| 3 | What are the contexts in which it is most appropriate to adopt a questioning stance ? |
| 4 | This would be parallel to the fact that the object in an adverbal construction tends to separate the adjective from the verb to which it is most closely bound intensionally , by occupying the place immediately after the verb , as objects normally do ( see Section 5.3 ) . |
| 5 | According to Neal , two of the patterns which it is most difficult to plan accurately are eight-lozenge star arrangements and arrangements of " juggled " , interlaced squares . |
| 6 | The properties of the polymer , and hence the end-uses for which it is most suitable vary , of course , with the type . |
| 7 | It is a concept which it is clearly difficult to define , and which , indeed , is not defined in the Act . |
| 8 | This second purpose is dealt with not only in the brief account of evolution outlined above but by a philosophical discussion of the production of ideas in history which it is equally essential to understand for apprehending the Marxist attitude to history and anthropology . |
| 9 | It is emphasising these offerings rather than the connectivity software products for which it is traditionally known — what it now calls a secondary stream . |
| 10 | Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries . |
| 11 | Emotionally and mentally our mind seeks out the things , people and ideas to which it is already habituated . |
| 12 | This alone would permit the evaluation of UK problems and policies in their international setting and clarify the implications of policy choices at the EEC level for the UK and the rest of the EEC as well as locating options for Europe as a whole in the global context by which it is powerfully influenced and constrained . |
| 13 | For the Chardonnay , however , to which it is best suited , four shoots require five buds , as the first bud on this vine is always infertile . |
| 14 | Marx is continually facing a problem which is very familiar to anthropologists : how to express a different system with a vocabulary which is inevitably moulded to the institutions of the society in which it is normally used . |
| 15 | The degree of markedness involved will depend on the frequency with which the element in question generally occurs in theme position and the extent to which it is normally mobile within the clause . |
| 16 | If more output is obtained from the same manpower — which it is here contended could and should happen — then the allocation of resources so far as manpower is concerned will be unaffected . |
| 17 | If , for example , you compare the film Gregory 's Girl ( GG ) with the play A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( MND ) , on which it is partly based , you could organise the comparison as : GG narrative compared with MND narrative ; GG characterisation compared with MND characterisation ; etc. ; summary of comparison . |
| 18 | Wilkinson Sword hopes Protector will enable it to wrest back the technological advantage in the razor market which it is widely thought to have lost to brand leader Gillette in recent years . |
| 19 | In Le Planétarium ( 1959 ) , however , although it is possible to attribute some of the sequences to the consciousnesses of the ‘ characters ’ involved , we are presented with conflicting narratives and interpretations of events emanating from insufficiently individuated figures , Her subsequent novels confirm this development towards a narrative discourse in which it is increasingly difficult to situate a perceiving consciousness . |
| 20 | I thought hard about my actual immune system and the white cells of which it is largely composed . |
| 21 | Like the working-class area to which it is geographically close , the nearest shopping centre contains department stores and supermarkets , along with the usual variety of smaller shops . |
| 22 | Indeed there is a sense in which it is positively desirable to act out of self-interest in offering support to a relative , since if the donor also benefits , there is less chance that one party will become over-dependent upon the other . |
| 23 | No doubt many , probably a majority , of the cases of non-gonococcal urethritis are due to infectious organisms , but there remains a hard core of cases from which no pathogenic germs can be isolated and for which it is just conceivable that antibiotic treatment may not be the best therapy . |
| 24 | The analysis is strengthened because the psychology of moral reasoning is close to one particular non-psychological discourse : philosophy , from which it is nevertheless determined to assert its autonomy . |
| 25 | According to its remit from the 1986 Agriculture Act , MAFF is supposed to balance the needs of conservation with agriculture , which it is blatantly not doing . |
| 26 | Thus the signified tree is not the expression or reflection or product of the series of vegetable objects to which it is conventionally attached in English usage . |
| 27 | Taxonomy should be a common descriptive backbone to research in plant sciences , but the way in which it is conventionally presented makes such use difficult for the non-taxonomist . |
| 28 | Stewart Ritchie , of Scottish Equitable , suggests there is a grey area , of 40 to 45 for men and 35 to 40 for women , within which it is probably not worth making a change whether you are currently in or out . |
| 29 | However , the prison and the system of which it is part tend to resist internal reform initiatives . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) … a doctor shall be under no obligation to give treatment personally if such reasonable steps as are appropriate are taken to ensure continuity of treatment , and treatment may be given — ( a ) by another doctor acting as a deputy … ( b ) if it is treatment which it is clinically reasonable in the circumstances to delegate , by a person whom the doctor had authorised and who is competent to carry out such treatment . ’ |