Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time and again a landowner , the man who actually has the most to lose since it is his land , is willing to donate corners of his fields for ponds or tree planting , as his contribution to the environmental compromise of a land-drainage scheme ; but then a letter from his agent arrives , demanding that these corners be heavily compensated or even bought by the water authority , as payment for the concessions made . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We do occasionally get calls from people who 've dialled a number listed in one of the ads only to find that it 's wrong — an old lady in Dunfirmline insisting that she 's definitely not selling a Malmsteen Strat — or perhaps giving the ‘ unobtainable ’ tone on a number which does n't exist . |
| 5 | So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |
| 8 | I 've got me jigsaw on that board that 's what , and I 've covered it over with a cloth because I do n't want the sun to fade it cos it 's hard enough to do as it is ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To claim that explanation in geography can go no further is only to say that it is inadequate to its task , and ignores the fact that many geographers are going further : |
| 11 | So to ask whether it is logical can be misunderstood . |
| 12 | Hewlett-Packard Co , the company that has an evangelising belief that the Common Open Software Environment is the key to its future Unix strategy , is now confident enough to admit that it is unlikely to incorporate any of the Open Software Foundation 's current operating system technology into its own HP-UX Unix system software . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co , the company which has an evangelizing belief that COSE is the key to its future Unix strategy , is now confident enough to admit that it is unlikely to incorporate any of the Open Software Foundation 's current operating system technology into its own HP-UX Unix system software . |
| 14 | This is erm just to demonstrate that it 's the same contract across all of our six companies . |
| 15 | So , then she said , oh right , I 'll get on your desk just to check that it 's alright , so she got , took my work essays off , and she got on my desk and then I said , oh I 'll help you down , so she sat on my desk to get off and of course it 's not attached |
| 16 | It 's just to say that it 's not going up as much as they thought . |
| 17 | To maintain that the content of literature is part of a system of signs with a structure of its own , independent of the ‘ real ’ world , is clearly to maintain that it is in theory analyzable in the same way as its language ; but in practice a ready-made set of conceptual tools is simply not available . |
| 18 | Which is also to say that it is not the case that there is no connection , or that a category mistake is involved in the mere comparison . |
| 19 | ‘ It must also be thoroughly researched locally to ensure that it is not being called after an undesirable part of town . |
| 20 | ‘ And now to know that it is haunted makes me a little apprehensive . ’ |
| 21 | A , it 's part of , it 's linked to the fact that erm , the Council 's quite erm concerned to get , you know , community groups active in the town and responding to things as well as just the Council , Council Officer 's , but it 's also linked to the fact that we as Council Officer 's ca n't be overtly political , it 's far to say , and you know , what happens is groups get set up to resist things like last year when the hospital lost the fifty million pounds , there 's enough people on it now to say that it 's you people here that formed the bulk of thos e groups . |
| 22 | I think I ought really to say that it 's not something that 's particularly associated with opting out , it 's something we were already doing anyway as an aid to better management . |
| 23 | I could actually tomorrow to see if it 's in the library could n't I ? |
| 24 | England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law . |
| 25 | It is useful to recall Wittgenstein in this connection : ‘ It is a help here to remember that it is a primitive reaction to tend , to treat , the part that hurts when someone else is in pain ; and not merely when oneself is ’ ( Z 540 ) . |
| 26 | It is important here to stress that it is not just hitting to the target that is foremost , but at all times moving the feet to take the ball in one bounce . |
| 27 | It is clear that the micro is here to stay and it is the responsibility of personnel managers to come to terms with the new technology and use it to their advantage . |
| 28 | It is interesting here to note that it is paralleled by one from Islam of how Allah sent the angel Gabriel to search for a pious man in a certain place . |
| 29 | A far-southern constellation , not hard to find because it is so compact ; it lies more or less between Achernar and Canopus . |
| 30 | 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 . |