Example sentences of "[adj] and it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | By snubbing Napoleon III , Bismarck made the provocative nature of his policy quite clear and it is a measure of how confident he felt that he scarcely bothered to conceal it . |
| 2 | Exactly why this has been a difficulty is not clear and it is ironic considering the lead responsibility local authorities fought for and won . |
| 3 | Interest accrues daily and it is possible to receive a monthly income ; otherwise it will be left to grow . |
| 4 | Our efforts to meet the company have so far been unsuccessful , but as far as we understand from the AEU ( which has a single union agreement with Montupet ) , there are no special mechanisms to target recruitment and training on the unemployed and it is worth bearing in mind that the code of practice of the new Fair Employment Act puts the idea of the merit principle above that of equality of outcome or the achievement of social justice . |
| 5 | It is n't light and it is n't dark . |
| 6 | It is n't funny and it is n't clever |
| 7 | The individual in whom that spirit lives will be faced with the opportunity to do such wrong and it is that individual who makes the choice and decides which path to follow . |
| 8 | I served an apprenticeship , worked hard and now I am in the wrong and it is not my fault . |
| 9 | Do not throw correspondence away just in case you were wrong and it is important . |
| 10 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 11 | The Select Committee suggested that these costs might actually be too high and it is true that if our ‘ Safestore ’ strategy is adopted we will be able to reduce the liability by at least a further £500 million . |
| 12 | First , non-response was high and it is now known that , as a category , non-respondents are often very different in a number of relevant respects from those who do respond . |
| 13 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 14 | You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up . |
| 15 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 16 | New members , particularly , are always interested and it is some while since we had a ‘ Sales Boost ’ and we need the shelf space and the money ! |
| 17 | Fish is very popular and it is still preserved and smoked by traditional methods . |
| 18 | Speaking in Brussels , where the Community dimension of the drama is becoming a major debate , the Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , said : ‘ Freedom is magnetic and it is natural that the people of Eastern Europe should lunge for it at their first chance . ’ |
| 19 | The language is distinct and self-contained and it is not dependent on an established programming language . |
| 20 | The nature of the act or omission demanded is immaterial and it is also immaterial whether the menaces relate to action to be taken by the person making the demand . |
| 21 | But Leila was not foreign and it is unusual for one of our women to do things like that . |
| 22 | A court official admitted : ‘ The records should not have been made public and it is understandable people get upset . ’ |
| 23 | This is not to say that the one is better than the other , music and poetry are for ever different and it is the difference that accords us the added joy . |
| 24 | This is a natural result of the fact that the two types are very different and it is necessary to ‘ unlearn ’ a great deal before progress can be made . |
| 25 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 26 | Creative thinking is different and it is the process of dreaming up new schemes and finding solutions to problems . |
| 27 | They are not very reliable and it is a rare day when all eight can be persuaded to run ! |
| 28 | As explained earlier when describing the model of living and the model for nursing , the 12 ALs are interrelated ; so too the body systems as categorised by the human biologists are interrelated and it is only for the purposes of description and discussion that they are dealt with separately . |
| 29 | This is only of benefit in big events where the skill and fitness of the top sailors are all very similar and it is the state of mind that matters . |
| 30 | You 've then got to go below that and say , this was achieved through actual and it is the advertising making the public aware that we are prepared to employ females providing they 're good enough . |