Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is although it does n't sound like her . |
| 2 | Thus we have Macdonald reporting on the " almost unanimous chorus of opinion that women 's work as compositors is so inferior to men 's that it does not pay in the long run " ( the chorus in question being from employers ) But the testimony of individual employers is far from unanimous or even consistent . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's that it does n't suit you . |
| 4 | Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity . |
| 5 | And these are things like thalidomide , that of course everybody knows about , and of course , tragic and terrible as it was , the fact is that it affected just four hundred and fifty children . |
| 6 | The answer to that question is that it depends how you plan to use the recording . |
| 7 | And the answer of course is that it depends how much you make God like yourself , and that 's a test that Milton does n't come altogether well out of . |
| 8 | The advantage the pure watercolour has over all other media is that it depends greatly on the light passing through the colour being reflected back from the white paper . |
| 9 | The mark of a good organisation is that it responds positively when things get tough . |
| 10 | One drawback is that it responds only to quick changes in humidity , but the inventors point out this should not be a problem with a fuel gauge . |
| 11 | The advantage of this structure is that it responds swiftly to meet most developments whether from competition , government or consumer bodies . |
| 12 | One general outcome of the comparison between the original and the reconstructions is that it brought out the very blandness and the almost self-conscious " flatness ' of Hemingway 's style . |
| 13 | One of the strengths of this approach is that it becomes much more immediately apparent why certain issues are felt to be important . |
| 14 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 15 | The great advantage of this approach is that it gets away from picking out odd texts from the bible to ‘ prove ’ one thing or another and asks after the underlying message . |
| 16 | The problem is that it gets out of hand . |
| 17 | The interest of this triple acclamation is that it sounds emphatically and oddly hellenistic ( cp . |
| 18 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 19 | One of the central features of the company is that it separates out the functions of ownership and management . |
| 20 | The main criticism about information provided to employees is that it arrives too late . |
| 21 | The advantage of the pen system in Eo 's machine is that it does away with the keyboard , so enabling applications to be written for all language forms — non-Roman script like Japanese or Arabic for instance . |
| 22 | The difficulty is that it does not , one does not — not in one 's art , not in one 's life . |
| 23 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 24 | What is good about the current production is that it does not seek to tilt the play either way : it allows us to decide where we stand . |
| 25 | But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so . |
| 26 | The only difference between its policies and those of CND proper is that it does not campaign directly for Britain 's withdrawal from Nato . |
| 27 | Labour has the culture of a Utopian party ; the strength of the Conservative Party is that it does not . |
| 28 | The problem with this letter , apart from the fact that the only copy available is unsigned , is that it does not agree with the timescale of events . |
| 29 | An alternative line of defence offered by the National Bank for its failure to curb inflation ( EP , 10 November 1986 ) is that it does not have the power to prevent the money supply from growing faster than its planned rate . |
| 30 | The major advantage of this method is that it does not depend on the calculation of MNI , which at best is an unreliable estimate of the true numbers of individuals in a sample . |