Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time and again a landowner , the man who actually has the most to lose since it is his land , is willing to donate corners of his fields for ponds or tree planting , as his contribution to the environmental compromise of a land-drainage scheme ; but then a letter from his agent arrives , demanding that these corners be heavily compensated or even bought by the water authority , as payment for the concessions made . |
| 2 | The court itself will , under this Practice Direction , continue to scrutinise every action set down to see whether it is suitable for transfer . |
| 3 | I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported . |
| 4 | A case in point is Gabriel García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude , on whose closing page the last of the Buendía family finally succeeds in deciphering the hitherto incomprehensible manuscript presented to the family by the mysterious gypsy Melquíades , only to discover that it is an account of the history of the Buendías written 100 years before , that they will cease to exist when he finishes reading it and that he is , in effect , no more than a creature of Melquíades 's imagination , with no existence outside the pages of the manuscript . |
| 5 | We do occasionally get calls from people who 've dialled a number listed in one of the ads only to find that it 's wrong — an old lady in Dunfirmline insisting that she 's definitely not selling a Malmsteen Strat — or perhaps giving the ‘ unobtainable ’ tone on a number which does n't exist . |
| 6 | So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd . |
| 7 | We have all had our share of fruitless journeys to find our dream home , set amid magnificent rolling countryside , only to find that it is 200 yards from the noisy A12 , hemmed in by an ugly industrial building , with a pungent smell of pigs wafting across the garden . |
| 8 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |
| 9 | I 've got me jigsaw on that board that 's what , and I 've covered it over with a cloth because I do n't want the sun to fade it cos it 's hard enough to do as it is ! |
| 10 | As ta ; tends to unity the types become progressively more far sighted , so to ensure that it is still not worth engaging in the permanent imitation of z = 0 the benefits from following the equilibrium strategy are increased . |
| 11 | To claim that explanation in geography can go no further is only to say that it is inadequate to its task , and ignores the fact that many geographers are going further : |
| 12 | But she adds : ‘ As many people as have written saying we should revise them have written in to say that it 's outrageous to think we should even consider revising them … |
| 13 | So to ask whether it is logical can be misunderstood . |
| 14 | Hewlett-Packard Co , the company that has an evangelising belief that the Common Open Software Environment is the key to its future Unix strategy , is now confident enough to admit that it is unlikely to incorporate any of the Open Software Foundation 's current operating system technology into its own HP-UX Unix system software . |
| 15 | Hewlett-Packard Co , the company which has an evangelizing belief that COSE is the key to its future Unix strategy , is now confident enough to admit that it is unlikely to incorporate any of the Open Software Foundation 's current operating system technology into its own HP-UX Unix system software . |
| 16 | The DPP will face one of 4 choices , not to proceed because of lack of evidence , not to proceed because it 's deemed not to be in the public interest , to issue a caution , or to sanction a prosecution . |
| 17 | This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them . |
| 18 | This is not to deny that it is possible for the market ( of whatever kind ) to impose some form of restraint on corporate managers . |
| 19 | Now that is not to deny that it is in effect surely of bringing Christians together , but there are certain questions . |
| 20 | This is erm just to demonstrate that it 's the same contract across all of our six companies . |
| 21 | But to suggest that a speech community is diffuse ( or internally divergent ) is not to imply that it is necessarily unpatterned or unstructured : on the contrary , our task is to find out how the variation is structured by demonstrating what the patterns in the community are like . |
| 22 | To stress the importance of the repressive political environment is not to imply that it is the ‘ natural ’ destiny of labour movements to become moderate and accept the basic ground rules of capitalism . |
| 23 | So , then she said , oh right , I 'll get on your desk just to check that it 's alright , so she got , took my work essays off , and she got on my desk and then I said , oh I 'll help you down , so she sat on my desk to get off and of course it 's not attached |
| 24 | I am trying not to over-react but it 's difficult . |
| 25 | That 's not to say that it 's not worth listening to : it clearly is , and it grows larger the more you hear it . |
| 26 | The intervening years have not seen any revision , but this is not to say that it is not both necessary and desirable . |
| 27 | This is not to say that it is nonsensical , in the context of the constitution of the United Kingdom , to speak of ‘ civil rights ’ or ‘ civil liberties ’ . |
| 28 | That 's not to say that it is a waste of time reading it even if you have never been to the remote geographical placement . |
| 29 | This is not to say that it is an undesirable practice if the interests of the patient will not be adversely affected by any consequential delay . |
| 30 | That is not to say that it is enough to do deliberate actions which , in fact , obstruct ; there must be an intention that those actions should result in the further state of affairs to which I have been referring . ’ |