Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 2 | Some federal states are so centralised that it is doubtful whether one should continue to refer to them as federal . |
| 3 | He admits also that Buddhism displayed a tendency to participation as it spread out from India into other countries , though he fails to recognize the examples of participation which might be said to derive from the communal life of the sangha and so insists that it is the principle of identity that predominates . |
| 4 | If the husbands ask why there should be such a penalty , then I can only answer that it is because Parliament has enacted as it did . ’ |
| 5 | Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage . |
| 6 | In some cases land has become so degraded that it is agriculturally worthless . |
| 7 | I only say that it is the route of the Council of Europe that has been recognised by the Community as leading to Community membership itself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The uses for speech synthesis are so varied that it is almost impossible to list them . |
| 10 | However , knowledge of a scheme , and indeed making use of it , does not necessarily demonstrate that it is of any particular value . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Often the two structures are so intertwined that it is impossible to separate and distinguish them . |
| 13 | Planning and controlling are so intertwined that it is artificial to draw rigid lines between them . |
| 14 | So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |
| 17 | Questions of the witnesses credibility may be relevant , and will be considered below ; that his evidence is controversial , taken alone , merely establishes that it is material to the issues in the case ; it is a reason for making an order , not for refusing to do so . |
| 18 | That is why we know that people will not only feel that it is unfair and understand that it is unfair , but will at the general election bring home to roost the chickens that many Tory Members will be voting on at 10 pm tonight . |
| 19 | They may rightly feel that it is all really rather appalling . |
| 20 | He will have his failures , of course , but there will always be failures while learning anything and I can only repeat that it is a method well worth learning . |
| 21 | Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson said that it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House of Commons to decide whether such privilege has been infringed . |
| 22 | Although in the past the courts and the House of Commons both claimed the exclusive right to determine whether or not a privilege existed , it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House to decide whether such privilege has been infringed : see Erskine May on Parliamentary Practice , 21st ed. ( 1989 ) , pp. 147–160 . |
| 23 | Ten years of painstaking research , of test and trial , have created a material so advanced that it is unlike anything which has ever been produced before . |
| 24 | Preobrazhensky not only forgot that it is necessary to examine each mode of production in its specific , if general , forms but also that the manner of investigation will be conditioned by these forms . |
| 25 | We should make our being so open that it is like one of the old free cities — open to all eyes . |
| 26 | That does n't necessarily follow that it is open countryside . |
| 27 | We have only shown that it is justified if B and C are . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sometimes I do n't seem real to myself , it suddenly seems that it is n't my reflection only a foot or two away . |
| 30 | This is done , for example , in order to provide an economical method of introducing a new technology into the company by using an established expert , or when in-house resources are temporarily so stretched that it is the only feasible expedient . |