Example sentences of "[subord] it [adv] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For its part , the Trades Union Congress has recognised the gap ; but its response has been primarily cosmetic , couched in terms of a public relations campaign which leaves power where it already is , and fails to address the crisis within the movement itself . |
| 2 | He paused and said , frowning , ‘ I presume it 's in the boathouse , where it always is . ’ |
| 3 | A virtue of the postclassical perspective is that , although it too is concerned with differences in individual dispositions towards crime , it allows more readily for changes in such dispositions , and for a more dynamic relationship between them and the situations in which they are likely to be activated . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Mama , do n't make it more difficult than it already is . |
| 5 | Thus the entire top management process — preparation , testing , succes-sion — will become even more problematic than it already is . |
| 6 | I stare at the muddied , warped little card sealed in a deal-sized plastic bag , recognising my own writing and feeling my mouth go even drier than it already is and I can only gibber something about , Well , it looks like my writing but , I mean , and anyway , somebody , anybody could have taken that , I mean … but they just look quietly pleased and the questions go on . |
| 7 | Your head will get even bigger than it already is . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Are you trying to make this even more intolerable for me than it already is ? ’ |
| 9 | If duty were to be put up in the budget , then the distortion of the market would be greater than it already is . |
| 10 | But what is certain is that the democratic principle — that people should , as far as possible , make or participate in making the decisions that affect them most closely and importantly — could beneficially be applied far more widely in modern societies than It presently is . |
| 11 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 12 | Do n't forget to use a sunscreen on overcast days — clouds or a breeze can fool you into thinking the sun is weaker than it really is . |
| 13 | Both circuits attempt to tackle the problem of crossover distortion in a basically identical manner : they try to make the load impedance , RL , appear to be very much higher to the main amplifier than it really is . |
| 14 | The West , in contrast , pretends that social planning is more central to its ideology than it really is and fails to support many of those who , for whatever reason , lose out on the benefits of the system . |
| 15 | This had the effect of making the differences between owl and diurnal raptor digestion appear greater than it really is , and it seemed to confirm earlier reports of minimal effects of digestion in owls ( Reed & Reed , 1928 ; Duke et al . , |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Its eyes were no longer the eyes of a cow — they were blue and vacant , like the eyes of a mad person sending images to the brain of a world other than it really is . |
| 18 | Hugging the ground like a Lotus the Magister seems faster than it really is . |
| 19 | The ability of the counsellor to be part of a group , fully involved and an interested party , but at the same time an ‘ observer ’ , may appear to be more difficult than it really is . |
| 20 | Spadefoot toads have a number of anti-predator tactics , one of which is to inflate the lungs and hence the body , which may fool the snake into thinking the toad is larger than it really is and act as a deterrent . |
| 21 | He seems to view life as more complicated and difficult than it really is , and he has the problem of unending frustration , and trying to control his life , and the Government ( look at that SDP broadcast ) , which he clearly never does . |
| 22 | Some of the dates that have been obtained are therefore misleading , making the sample appear younger or older than it really is . |
| 23 | The smoke from the cottage chimney will lend a ‘ vapoury repose ’ and motion to the scene which a painter himself might strive in vain to capture , making the valley seem larger than it really is . |
| 24 | Or is this a counsel of despair which makes the culture of racism seem more entrenched and unchangeable than it really is ? |
| 25 | That sounds a lot heavier than it really is , because what our testing has proved is that you are not psychotic in any orthodox way . |
| 26 | Columbus knew that the world was round but he thought it was much smaller than it really is . |
| 27 | She knew that it was going to seem like forever , waiting for her friends , because the time you spend waiting always seems longer than it really is . |
| 28 | In such circumstances the pool should be placed in a more amenable situation and , by the careful dispersal of excavated soil made to appear that it is in fact lower than it really is . |
| 29 | Manager Barry Forshaw said that the ground floor of the shop was ‘ wrecked ’ , but added that it looked as if no structural damage had been done : ‘ it looks worse than it really is ’ . |
| 30 | So the multiplicity of alternative definitions may well seem greater than it really is . |