Example sentences of "[adj] the [adj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The really tragic thing is that the longer people are unemployed the harder it is to get them back to work . |
| 2 | The more people who stand firm the harder it is for anyone to whisk it away . ’ |
| 3 | All the same it is hard to resist the temptation to describe United 's style as Wimbledon Mk II . |
| 4 | All the same it is extraordinary to find the Roman Church ( 1 ) acquiescing in Constantine 's total indifference to Jesus ; ( 2 ) deferring to Constantine 's presentation of himself as the Messiah ; and ( 3 ) acknowledging the definition of Messiahship — that is , a military and political figure — embodied by Constantine . |
| 5 | All the same it is far from true that they were used to break the strike . |
| 6 | All the same it is useful here to set up a paradigm of the profitability calculation against which to assess the prospects for investment planning , while accepting that there is considerable scope for variation in the actual calculations performed by particular enterprises . |