Example sentences of "[conj] it is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — far lower than in Germany , where it is 26 per cent. , the United States where it is 33 per cent. , and Japan where it is more than 60 per cent . |
| 2 | I have not necessarily been understood , because they do n't always try to understand , but the feeling of warmth is either there or it is n't and that 's the only difference that counts . |
| 3 | It is often not difficult to determine that relationship , but the point about it is that it is not but must be figured out by every reader . |
| 4 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 5 | In the 1980s , it is still true that males have higher mortality rates than females at all ages ( except possibly after reaching the age of 100 years : OPCS 1987 : 5 ) ; but the number of deaths in childhood and early adult life is now so small that it is not until individuals reach their late forties , that women actually outnumber men of the same birth cohort . |
| 6 | I hope that it is not because the hon. Gentleman has not been called at business questions . |
| 7 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 8 | Having said that , it is entirely possible that one is being hopelessly naïve and that it is simply that the AIDS test has replaced the screen test as the sine qua non for any ambitious ingénue . |
| 9 | It would be wrong to conclude that it is simply because women live longer than men . |
| 10 | In fact , Stevens ( 1991 ) argues that it is just because devaluation does not work as an instrument of economic policy that the argument for a single currency is made more powerful . |
| 11 | You may believe that it is just because I am an extremely popular person . |
| 12 | the court is of the opinion that it is just and equitable that the company should be wound up . |
| 13 | the court is of the opinion that it is just and equitable that the company should be wound up . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) An order under this section in respect of any costs may only be made if — ( a ) an order for costs would be made in the proceedings apart from this Act ; ( b ) as respects the costs incurred in a court of first instance , those proceedings were instituted by the assisted party and the court is satisfied that the unassisted party will suffer severe financial hardship unless the order is made ; and ( c ) in any case , the court is satisfied that it is just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case that provision for the costs should be made out of public funds . |
| 15 | An order may only be made against the legal aid fund if : ( a ) an order for costs would be made in any event ; ( b ) the proceedings were instituted by the assisted party and the unassisted party would suffer severe financial hardship unless an order were made ; and ( c ) in any case the court is satisfied that it is just and equitable for the costs to be paid out of public funds ( Legal Aid Act 1988 , s18(4) ) . |
| 16 | Equally straitened is Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , which reported plunging profits that were still better than forecast : it is cutting its bonus for executives by 20% in the year to March 31 1994 , Reuter reports from Tokyo , adding that it is also considering reducing bonuses for senior managers as well as stopping increases of wages of those above section manager ; the company sees intense competition . |
| 17 | What the movies taught Welford Beaton was ‘ we are not interested in average things , whether animate or inanimate — we are interested in anything in the degree that it is above or below the average ’ . |
| 18 | We then sequenced parasite DNA from nine Gambian isolates ( Fig. 2 , legend ) : in each , the ls6 epitope was identical to the published sequence , indicating that it is largely or completely conserved in this population . |
| 19 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 20 | This is particularly so in the UK where the social class implications of accent , furnishings and behaviour are so complex that it is rarely if ever possible to produce a domestic situation which is really widely acceptable , in the fullest sense of the word . |
| 21 | We may ‘ believe ’ , or be of the ‘ opinion ’ , that it is universally and certainly true that it is ; but , in relying on experience and observation , we do not ‘ know ’ . |
| 22 | I agree that most of us need work — but I would point out that it is partly because when you 're unemployed and dependent on the state for support , you do n't have enough money to use your leisure time in the way you might want to . |
| 23 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that it is right that he should restate the Government 's commitment to their policy in Northern Ireland , based on the rule of law ? |
| 24 | Faris is sure that it is lower than 300 picoseconds , although he does not have the equipment to prove his prediction that it is less than 50 picoseconds ( 10 -12 seconds ) . |
| 25 | Unfortunately the single-copy fallacy , the idea that it is enough that there should be one copy of any book in existence , does have support even within the British Library itself . |
| 26 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |
| 27 | Rather , the courts have held that it is enough if the constable has a power to act as he does , and that he is not acting illegally in the exercise of that power at the time of the act complained of . |
| 28 | ( Note that here and elsewhere in the book , underlined stretches of talk mean that it is phonologically and/or grammatically marked as " Creole " . ) |
| 29 | You should also bear in mind that it is only once you have reached the end of the road in trying to obtain satisfaction through the Bank 's own complaints system that the Ombudsman will be able to formally consider your complaint . |
| 30 | Warlow pointed out , quite correctly , that this is not the sort of inversion we should be looking at : if the Earth flipped over in this way the Sun would still rise in the east , whereas there are legends that , before the ( undescribed ) catastrophe , the Sun rose in the west , and that it is only since that catastrophe that the Sun has risen in the east . |