Example sentences of "[coord] it is [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generic social work with the general population in closely knit communities may obviously be best achieved through small , patch-based teams ; but no organizational arrangement is universally valid irrespective of context and it is damaging when fashion seems to dictate otherwise . |
| 2 | Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky is the most suggestive of all Dostoevsky 's accidental men , and it is fitting that the phrase itself should never be used of or by him . |
| 3 | ‘ Aurigny ’ is the old French name for the island of Alderney , and it is fitting that this should have been chosen as the airline 's title , since in many ways that rocky islet is the heart of the organisation . |
| 4 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 5 | And it is striking that this week 's pressure on the peseta did not reflect a fundamental misalignment of the currency : on most estimates , the Spanish currency was not at all over-valued . |
| 6 | There are two crystallographically independent copies of the sCD2 molecule in the crystal and it is striking that this association occurs , in similar forms , for pairs of both copy 1 and copy 2 molecules ( the two versions are compared in Fig.5 a ) . |
| 7 | The duchy resources were still used on behalf of the royal retinue and it is striking that most of the best offices and farms went to the king 's household . |
| 8 | The difficulty in finding such variables is in itself a measure of how internally divergent BV actually is , and it is striking that the variables that show the sharpest patterns of social variation are subsets within the larger sets . |
| 9 | The duchy resources were still used on behalf of the royal retinue and it is striking that most of the best offices and farms went to the king 's household . |
| 10 | Germany has sixty five percent and it is falling and France sixty percent and now also falling . |
| 11 | Investors do not usually grasp the minutiae of the trading experiences of the businesses in which they invest , but it is unsettling when a company such as Pentos , which has been proclaiming its readiness to do battle with the big boys over the Net Book Agreement , has a financial setback . |
| 12 | Little systematic evidence on Asian girls is available at present , but it is emerging that their educational achievements are continually improving and it is clear that the common image of the docile Asian girl uninterested in education and ‘ torn ’ between western and Asian cultures is a gross stereotype ( Brah and Minhas , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | Yes erm but it is begging and it is it is pagan . |
| 14 | The poll is not analysed , but it is striking that countries where pollution from cars has become a major problem have the highest percentages of people who believe that the state of the environment requires urgent action : 85 per cent in Italy ( at the top of the list ) , where Milan , one of the world 's smoggiest cities , now has car-free days and the capital Rome also suffers severely from vehicle congestion and pollution ; 84 per cent in Greece , where restrictions on cars in Athens are imposed to save the citizens ' lungs and their ancient monuments ; 80 per cent in the most vehicle emission-conscious country in Europe , West Germany , whose dead trees have become the symbol of pollution . |
| 15 | The reduction in the intensity of the stimuli associated with the drive is as reinforcing as the actual reduction of the drive itself : thus food in the mouth does not reduce hunger , but it is reinforcing as it reduces the drive stimulus or craving for food . |