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 | What I do see wrong is that it 's smaller than it needs to be . ’ |
| 10 | The only difference between its policies and those of CND proper is that it does not campaign directly for Britain 's withdrawal from Nato . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most general point to be made about the survey proper is that it should be regarded as an end-point to be reached after careful preparation . |
| 12 | Where the Good Housekeeping diet is different is that it is more than just a diet . |
| 13 | The reason why Excel is different is that it distinguishes between a making an investment and borrowing money . |
| 14 | Thus the tendency , normally , is to take the view that a condition of significantly claiming x to be actually existent is that it should be possible to ask " Where is x ? " . |
| 15 | What makes Austen 's work interesting is that it can never be reduced entirely to simple analytical frameworks . |
| 16 | And what I find interesting is that it 's the sheer vitality of the English sound — it 's not just the Liverpool sound , it 's the English sound — the vitality , the sensuality , the letting one 's hair down quality , that is exactly what the Continentals admired in Dunstable , and strangely enough in a way what Elgar 's got — this incredible sort of desire not to be over formal and to break down certain formal barriers which seems to be so characteristic of English music . |
| 17 | I do n't think there is an overall meaning to be got by the symbolism of hands , though they are used many times to mean different things with many characters though in some cases what makes them symbolic is because it is hands that are being referred to and not another part of the anatomy . |
| 18 | An argument frequently advanced for being consistent is that it is fairer on other people , they know what to expect and ‘ where they stand ’ . |
| 19 | What makes this campaign unusual is that it 's backed by a major brewery , Courage . |
| 20 | The drawback of multi-threading is that it only allows whole processes to run on individual CPUs and is unsuited for particularly large applications . |
| 21 | Although it is frightening that so many people take Ecstasy to guarantee a ‘ good time ’ , what is more frightening is that it takes a Class A drug for them to feel they can lose their inhibitions . |
| 22 | It is unlikely that any of us could remember the first time we saw our own reflection ( mirrors often form part of toys aimed at very small babies , such as activity mats or cot toys , and there are , of course , lakes , kettles and other possibilities for reflection ) ; what is likely is that it was a member of our family ( probably our mother ) who told us : ‘ That 's you , that 's what you look like ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’ |
| 24 | The reason why the latter seem more likely is that it is on these major industries that much of the future competition among states for wealth-creating resources will be focused . |
| 25 | The most obvious is that it helps you prepare your position so that it is based on facts rather than speculation or wishful thinking . |
| 26 | One of the main reasons that the display looks so good is that it has been configured to use typographic faces as opposed to conventional typewriter-like text and this advantage has been further heightened by using typographic measurements throughout , each dot on the screen corresponds to 1 point . |
| 27 | What makes the deviant interpretation incorrect is that it would be the only one in step , for in this case correctness just is being in step with the others . |
| 28 | All we can say for sure is that it entered the microscope , perhaps on one side , perhaps on the other , perhaps in the middle . |
| 29 | One of the reasons they are often confusing and unsatisfactory is that it is not always totally clear who is interviewing whom . |
| 30 | Part of being selective is that it is also necessary to simplify the world in order to try to see more clearly just what a discipline can say about aspects of the world . |