Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , to choose either route is to lose information on either means or status that is helpful to targeting support where it is most required . |
| 2 | On a system like the ZX Spectrum where it is often easier to draw in black and white before adding the colours this in an essential facility . |
| 3 | It turns out that if I choose a direction and look at the electron 's spin in relation to that direction then either its axis of rotation points along that direction or it is wholly in the reverse direction . |
| 4 | The cash has been sent on to HQ where it is sorely needed ( see our Spring issue ) . |
| 5 | In a number of cases , however , there may be a tendency to regard it , rather , as a sort of libation to the gods — a project or programme acquiring a certain added respectability by being evaluated , but with no deep-seated resolve on the part of its organisers to make any substantial organisational or financial investment in change ( after all to contemplate fundamental change to a primary programme once it is underway is an exceptionally costly business ) . |
| 6 | ‘ To have intercourse with a woman who is not your wife is , even today , not generally considered to be a course of conduct which the law ought positively to encourage and it can be argued with force that it is only fair to the woman and not in the least unfair to the man that he should be under a duty to take reasonable care to ascertain that she is consenting to the intercourse and be at the risk of a prosecution if he fails to take such care . ’ |
| 7 | Academia is by now a necessary experience , in a manner it is never likely to have looked to Defoe or Dickens — something to be lived , for a time , and not forgotten — but quit in the consciousness that it is ultimately unlivable . |
| 8 | When you know something like that , you have absorbed it so deeply into your consciousness that it is never likely to be displaced , except perhaps by brain-washing or frontal lobotomy . |
| 9 | In explosive breeding , all reproductive activity is packed into a few days , with the result that it is highly synchronised . |
| 10 | Satisfactory for a time , this afterwards perished , with the result that it is now almost impossible to find an example where most , if not all , of the leaves are not loose in the binding . |
| 11 | It has also been shaped for ease of packaging , rubberised and refined , with the result that it is often quite tasteless . |
| 12 | The acceptance of a claim within the terms of the Statement of Practice is not an acceptance by the Revenue that it is factually correct . |
| 13 | He says conventional saddles hurt — this is more of a seat so it 's much more easy on him . |
| 14 | There is only , well there are sixteen hours that er that Norman 's put down for the total technical work supervision on the job , I would have thought that perhaps that might be quite tight , er you know bearing in mind that it 's maybe a job that requires a |
| 15 | Mm , you 've got to bear in mind that it is actually erm it is n't something you can take for granted , it is something that is a given thing and that er , it can be taken away , that 's the main thing , but |
| 16 | But one has to bear in mind that it is always possible that you could have other materials for riding and so on . |
| 17 | There is no doubt in Sir Adrian 's mind that it is more demanding today being a top executive than it used to be . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , before taking any adverse moral position it should be borne in mind that it is only the existence of such risk takers that allow risk-averse ( such as those described in motives 4 to 5 ) investors to effectively sell the risk of their portfolios or investments . |
| 20 | So intense is the chameleon 's concentration that it is quite unaware of imminent danger . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | In the simplified models that have been examined so far , this probability turns out to be high ; that is , the proposed no boundary condition leads to the prediction that it is extremely probable that the present rate of expansion of the universe is almost the same in each direction . |
| 23 | AD then test the prediction that it is only the unpredictable component of DM that has an impact on real output in the way described in section 6.2 . |
| 24 | The fact that even companies with strong sporting images , such as BMW , have now decided to enter the UK 's fledgling diesel market is another indication that it is only a matter of time before there is a diesel option of every car currently on sale in petrol guise . |
| 25 | If the aim of palaeoclimate modelling is to ‘ recreate ’ past climates , the geological evidence must be given more weight than it is now . |
| 26 | Lord Greene MR stated in Saltman that it is perfectly possible to have a confidential document , be it a formula , a plan , a sketch , or something of that kind , which is the result of work done by the maker on materials which may be available for the use of anybody . |
| 27 | It sounds at first a morally dubious proposition , but Michael Grubb argues in The Greenhouse Effect that it is more promising , and fairer , that any other scheme for international control . |
| 28 | Although they were the servants of governments whose interests it was their duty to uphold unreservedly , it was easier in such a setting than it is today to recognize certain common interests . |
| 29 | He said that the long-distance part of the network has been costing the government around £11m per year to run : ‘ It has been found by a continued process of review that it is no longer cost-effective for the government to continue running it itself , ’ he said . |
| 30 | It is also assumed in this review that it is only officially sponsored programmes or policies that are being discussed . |