Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 A wag in the crowd quipped that it is so long since they have been in evidence , police enquiries are being hampered because no one can name or describe them .
2 He found that it is not unusual in some industries for prices to individual buyers to remain unchanged for several years .
3 IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers .
4 IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers .
5 The spokesman also admitted that it 's not the first time the ladies have been hauled over the coals for selling fags .
6 The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field .
7 Later metabolic studies of methotrexate revealed that it is virtually without effect in the rabbit because of a metabolic peculiarity .
8 Wittgenstein argued that it is not possible to spell out necessary and sufficient conditions for an activity to be a game .
9 Although this fifth category is as yet insufficiently developed Terjung ( 1976 ) argued that it is increasingly appropriate as a research level for geographer climatologists .
10 He argued that it is too simplistic , and indeed ethnocentric , to dismiss such peoples as irrational and unscientific .
11 First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained .
12 In Chapter 2 , I argued that it is very important to test the system as a whole as early as possible rather than to develop components in isolation .
13 He repeated this over and over , as if he believed that it is only " they " whoever they were , told him how to act , then everything would be all right .
14 In the original report , however , we noted that it is not difficult to design , manufacture and market simple chip-based handhelds , especially straightforward spellcheckers .
15 In Owen v Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport [ 1992 ] PIQR Q27 the Court of Appeal stated that it is not always necessary for the pleadings in personal injury cases to be amended each time a fresh medical report leads to developments in the case .
16 On the one hand , the Bhatta-Mimamsaka school argued that time is perceptible , whereas their Nyaya-Vaiseka opponents claimed that it is only an inferred concept because it lacks sensible qualities , such as colour , form , etc .
17 The Medical Research Council 's Common Cold Research Unit showed that it is not the person who gets caught in the rain or sits in a draught who is likely to develop a cold but the one who has to work in the air-conditioned , centrally-heated , artificially-lit atmosphere found in many modern office blocks .
18 He also states that his analysis showed that it is not easy to increase market share through time .
19 One discussant then commented that it is not an either/or situation , that is , that either the government or the community should take sole responsibility for it , but it should be a responsibility shared by both government and community .
20 One contributor replied that it is very difficult to create new jobs at all and especially difficult to attract jobs to Northern Ireland .
21 Once you 've got that , I , I think you might well fined that it 's quite nice and comfortable to stay there .
22 I soon discovered that it 's almost impossible for anyone like myself , with normal sight and hearing , to imagine life without either sense — or to accept that , in many ways , 28-year-old Julia enjoys a nearly normal life .
23 ( iii ) So far as article 5(1) itself is concerned , he submitted that it is clearly established by Court of Justice decisions that it reflects the close links created by the contract between the parties thereto , and the need to resolve all difficulties which may arise in connection with the contract in the same court in a country which has a close connection with the case , i.e. the court in the country where the obligation in question has to be performed .
24 Much so-called ‘ atonal ’ music is only music with a tonal foundation so obscured or disrupted that it is not easily perceived .
25 part of that section is valid , and we say and we pleaded that it 's not so forth
26 In our earlier discussion of truth ( see Chapter 4 ) , we saw that it is not available in any absolute sense ; but this does not mean that ‘ anything goes ’ .
27 Well it all depends if it 's value for money because we er , we fe we felt that it 's only one day .
28 They all require us to make sense of the realist thought that it is always possible that , unknown to us , the world differs radically from the way it appears to us , and argue from this that we can not know that the world really is the way it appears to us .
29 AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work .
30 Says Melville , ‘ We learned that it 's very difficult to live and work together . ’
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