Example sentences of "[adv] [is] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 And the net result of all of these things together is that it narrowed the cost value differentials between U K and overseas holidays .
2 ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues .
3 The ICRF is such a worthy cause and what makes it particularly so is that it uses just 8p out of every £1 for administration , meaning 92p really goes on advancing the research , ’ she said .
4 Montaner is simple , just a huge keep and a walled enclosure ; this , in fact , is a regular polygon of twenty sides , though the angles are so gentle with that many sides that the feeling you have once you are inside is that it is circular .
5 oh it , it depends , I do n't think ours , we 've actually got twenty five pound at the moment , that 's , I du n no , that 's , that 's what it normally is and it 's twenty five P or thirty
6 A third reason for being able to open your dog 's mouth easily is if it swallows a bone , or a ball becomes stuck here .
7 The reason why the corporatist vision takes a different stance on the question of whose interests corporate managers ought to further is because it pursues to its logical conclusion the implication for the classical view of the company of the separation of ownership and control in the large public company .
8 The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else .
9 Er again , it 's all down to where you 're going to stand to take the photograph , and I 'm not so sure that you I think you 've gone a little , no you know , I , I criticized the other one a bit , from the same person I think it possibly is because it 's the same style , the same sort of mounting .
10 The problem with modernity , Enlightenment man 's home is that it masks the reality of his hopelessness from him .
11 The difficulty with natural selection which Taylor raises repeatedly is that it explains evolution by chance .
12 m my , m my explanation of that though is that it 's true , i it could just be a hormonal side effect .
13 What we should expect though is that it comes back down to around the three point five mark for the year .
14 The only problem with their copy now is that it 's far too long . ’
15 Does my hon. Friend agree that the figures given demonstrate clearly that nationalisation has failed the Scottish coal industry and that the only hope now is that it will be privatised in the imminent future ?
16 And it became er I think more people 's perception of it now is that it 's like a bloke bonking birds on stage , it 's nothing like that .
17 The main concern now is whether it can generate enough advertising revenue in a more competitive market to stave off programming and scheduling compromises to make it more popular and to build its audience .
18 But worse is that it comes at the very moment Davies and Jeff Young , the WRU technical director , and forward-looking others have put into place a representative structure designed to facilitate the flow of full international candidates .
19 For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey .
20 What , I believe , makes Lewis 's view of the Bible so important today is that it is very similar to the view of the fathers of the primitive church .
21 An objection frequently heard today is that it is being unduly literalistic to discuss whether or not the Bible history is true .
22 she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship .
23 SCIENTISTS are still battling to discover the reasons for cot deaths and although numbers have been halved the message today is that it is not a simple problem with a single answer .
24 True , the black cows , apparently of no fixed abode , that used to saunter along the streets and back lanes , foraging and friendly , have gone , and Edmund MacKenzie has moved his shop to new premises , but otherwise Plockton today is as it has always been within my memory , and is best appreciated in the evenings when the day trippers have departed .
25 As to why the application is before this court , that quite simply is because it was to this court that the implied undertaking was given ; we alone , therefore , have power to vary it .
26 ‘ The nice thing about keeping it small and knowing each other well is that it 's very flexible ; if one of us has an emergency it does n't create problems or ill-feeling . ’
27 What is in issue here is whether it should now be varied .
28 In some early drafts Raskolnikov commits suicide , and the striking thing here is that it 's never suggested he does so out of remorse or because he thinks he 's going to get caught or even from some vaguer , larger self-loathing .
29 One problem here is that it is cold comfort to an individual citizen that he can use the political process to air his grievances , for example by writing to his MP or councillor or to the press or voting for another party next time round .
30 Occasionally several males may form loose groups together , but whether they do this or not the essential point here is that it is the combined efforts of the females that control the herd , and rear and defend the young .
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