Example sentences of "[conj] it is [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , there is no vaccine licensed for use in its prevention , but a vaccine is used , I believe , in New Zealand and some other countries where it is still a relatively common disease . |
| 2 | Summarizing is a key behaviour in effective meetings where it is usually an important part of the chairing role . |
| 3 | The Government have a fine record on increasing benefits in line with prices every year , but I have a particular point to raise with my right hon. Friend , although it is principally a matter for the Treasury . |
| 4 | Community policing is a preventive rather than a crime control made of policing and in the United Kingdom it has become associated in the popular image particularly with those inner-city areas where crime rates have risen sharply and where police relations with ethnic minorities have deteriorated , although it is also a response to the police 's loss of contact with other sections of the community , especially young people ( Schaffer 1980 ) . |
| 5 | For instance , Falmouth may be called a tourist resort , although it is also a shopping centre for local residents , and it has dockyards , a fishing industry and some light industry . |
| 6 | The ATP Tour , Year Two : 1991 , is a book for the enthusiast although it is also a book that you would have no hesitation in showing off to your friends , even those with only a passing interest in the game . |
| 7 | Although it is partly a response to the claims of transnationalism and hence of recent birth , Neo-Realism belongs firmly to the Realist tradition , as its name suggests . |
| 8 | Although it is over a year since the end of the Gulf War , the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Information is still trying to recover various ancient treasures dating back to the prehistoric and Islamic periods which disappeared from museums in the north and the south of the country . |
| 9 | This ought not to present any problems , although it is probably a good idea to emphasise the importance of the child 's language and to try to reduce any anxiety or embarrassment that adults might feel at the prospect of being recorded . |
| 10 | RBG Edinburgh recorded 786,000 visits in 1990 , although it is probably a minimum figure and with more careful monitoring of ALL visitor numbers , including educational activities and special groups , a more accurate figure should be available for 1991 . |
| 11 | Although it is only a brief summary , it contains all the relevant information necessary to follow the ten steps — plus a measure of red-herrings . |
| 12 | Although it is now a mouldering and dangerous ruin , it was the first-ever office for issuing freight vouchers for the Stockton and Darlington railway . |
| 13 | Although it is ostensibly a book about football , Hampden Babylon is littered with images drawn from the cinema , pop music and the tabloid press . |
| 14 | Although it is perhaps a cause of some concern that of the 8,000 trading member firms , some 4,000 have not yet received a compliance visit . |
| 15 | In the early spring , stalks of rhubarb are about the only fresh , home-grown fruit available — although it is technically a vegetable . |
| 16 | Of course there are exceptions , such as the Scarlet Guard of Stirland , the Death 's Head Regiment of Ostermark ( black and red ) , and the Carroburg Greatswords ( dark red , although it is actually a Reikland regiment ) . |
| 17 | Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population . |
| 18 | Right , although it is still a car , it 's , it has different attributes . |
| 19 | In this chapter we have argued that emotion in drama is real , but that it is nevertheless a modified version of that same emotion felt in an actual event , for the emotional response in drama is a response to an abstraction . |
| 20 | In contrast , cattle develop a good immunity to Oe. radiatum , partly due to age and partly to previous exposure so that it is primarily a problem in weaned calves . |
| 21 | The last help screen might be considered superfluous in that it is simply a reminder that all entries have to be made in an appropriate manner . |
| 22 | Acknowledging this interdependence allows us to make the courageous leap of ‘ letting in ’ the fetus , of rejecting the idea that it is simply a clump of cells , of taking it into our moral accounting and allowing it to make some claim on our attentions . |
| 23 | In this rather similar example , however , we think it is much clearer that the comma is a mistake and far less likely that it is simply a style variant : This has the implication that , novel-writing in Wales … |
| 24 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
| 25 | Armstrong replied , in a later number of the same journal , that it is simply an empirical fact about our proprioceptive powers that we are able to perceive the heat of our hand directly but not the roughness of its surface . |
| 26 | The first is based squarely on the suggestion that it is simply an illusion to suppose that any truth , or any significant role in social explanation need be assigned to counterfactuals of the form , ‘ If individual X had not had the psychological characteristic a , they could not have performed action b and event p would not have occurred . ’ |
| 27 | This does not mean that it is simply an exercise in resource management . |
| 28 | Walter says that it is probably a wedding but suggests that we investigate . |
| 29 | It is my strong impression that it is probably a very small MI5 mafia who have been out of the service for some time , who still continue the vendetta for no doubt extremely right-wing purposes of their own . |
| 30 | Firstly , the Perpetual High Income which has been a consistently good performer from a good fund management group ; then Mercury 's European Income Fund on the basis that it is probably a very good time to invest in Europe , with interest rates about to fall there . |