Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is perfectly clear that it is in the terms provided by this framework that we are able to answer any ‘ limited ’ question about the causes of particular phenomena . |
| 2 | Although the accident estimate could logically be independent of the actual exemplar of the junction that a subject was shown it is clear that it is in fact strongly related to the risk rating given to particular exemplars . |
| 3 | It is easier for us to do this than it is for the English or Americans . ’ |
| 4 | The range of media is large and the costs can be high so it is worth investigating the pulling power of different choices . |
| 5 | This statement might be misunderstood by readers to imply that unsafe sex elsewhere is somehow less risky than it is in London . |
| 6 | I must check those feelings which are the expression of physical instinct craving for satisfaction , but God knows celibacy is as painful to women ( even from the physical standpoint ) as it is to men — could not be more painful than it is to a woman . |
| 7 | But there are those for whom the task is easier than it is for most . |
| 8 | If the elderly relative is your own mother , frank discussion of problems is usually ( but not always ) easier than it is with an in-law . |
| 9 | Gestation is slightly shorter than it is for human mothers . |
| 10 | It is interesting that it is in the work of a woman , Julian of Norwich , that Mary 's female willingness to be open to receive embodies that attitude which lies at the heart of contemplative experience . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They also suggest that there is a critical literacy threshold of 40 per cent : in other words two-fifths of a country 's people need to be literate if it is to ‘ modernize ’ and make an ‘ economic miracle ’ possible . |
| 13 | The reason for this is not clear but it is worth noting that McCamman et al noted that ‘ explosive diarrhoea , gas , cramps , sweating , and feeling light headed were common complaints ’ after healthy volunteers finished an elemental regimen and started to eat food . |
| 14 | Everyone gets very wet but it is worth while getting soaked if it saves even one glider from serious damage . |
| 15 | In such a case it is not caught by s. 22 unless it is by itself a contract for sale [ of land ] … |
| 16 | However , Tamburlaine is also like this because it is in his nature , and so when these two clash , one of them is going to suffer . |
| 17 | If it is in isostatic equilibrium one section of lithosphere will stand higher than another because it is of lower density ( the crustal density or Pratt model ) , of the same density but thicker ( the crustal thickness or Airy model ) , or through a combination of both a lower density and greater thickness ( Fig. 2.9 ) . |
| 18 | Different though it is from the practical syllogism , it resembles it in that its conclusions are always revisable in the light of further information , which imposes itself as relevant whenever it does turn out to alter spontaneous reaction . |
| 19 | Interesting though it is to be aware of the way in which these various theological traditions bear fruit in the mystics ' accounts of their experience , it is important to remember that they can not fully account for this experience . |
| 20 | So far this seems to have helped , as the pond has stayed quite clear though it is in constant sunlight . |
| 21 | But the only other guidance necessary is to say : be as funny as it is in you to be but be careful not to go too far . |
| 22 | The report , People and Poverty in the North East , says that the cost of living for people on income support is three times as high as it is for those on an average wage . |
| 23 | Unemployment is rising in every European country except in Spain , but there it is twice as high as it is in Britain . |
| 24 | The dietary fibre connection is not in any way as clear and direct as it is in the evidence concerning cancer of the colon . |
| 25 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 26 | Occasionally this can be interesting as it is in Bintley 's Consort Lessons ( 1984 ) . |
| 27 | Labour 's Peter Mandelson dismissed the remarks and added : ‘ It is impossible to imagine a housing market more depressed than it is under the present Tory government . |
| 28 | Given the apparent sexist bias of much humanities and social science teaching , it seems odd that it is in these subjects that women are numerous ; it is the absence of women in physical science and engineering that has generally been regarded as a ‘ problem ’ . |
| 29 | It seems entirely possible that it is to this period — roughly from 873/1468 ( or perhaps earlier ) to 878/1473–4 — that the Muftilik of Abdulkerim belongs , that he succeeded Fahreddin Acemi on the latter 's death and must then later have resigned or been removed from the Muftilik , perhaps to make way for Molla Husrev when he returned from Bursa . |
| 30 | It is not surprising , therefore , that one finds this pattern in some of the ‘ softer ’ professional fields , such as social work and teaching , where the theory-practice relationship may be less one-way than it is in the ‘ harder ’ ones . |