Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 2 | My only reservation is that it might be too good . |
| 3 | One of the problems with a sloping garden is that it may be overlooked by many other houses . |
| 4 | The problem for the authorities is that it may be impossible to confirm or disprove the existence of ‘ Inner Circle ’ . |
| 5 | The problem for the authorities is that it may be impossible to confirm or disprove the existence of ‘ Inner Circle ’ . |
| 6 | The significance of an offer of compensation is that it may be taken as a token of the defendant 's remorse , and that it redresses the private loss of the victim , and to that extent and no other it plays a part in the sentencing exercise . |
| 7 | A further problem for the Church is that it may be seen by some people as a stepping-stone to a political career . |
| 8 | The most compelling argument against selling artificial milk feed in the Third World is that it may be mixed with contaminated water . |
| 9 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 10 | The implicit assumption here is that it may be best to leave nuclear weapons in a partial legal limbo , with an extremely strong presumption against the legality of their use , but with no formal and explicit rules turning this presumption into treaty language and adding detail to it . |
| 11 | This suggests that what Mill may have meant in saying that one pleasure is of higher quality than another is that it may be pleasanter without there being a quantifiable relation between them , in terms of which there must be some amount of the second which is as worth while , in hedonic terms , as the first . |
| 12 | The problem with section 5 is that it may be unduly limited in scope through the requirement that the risk of prejudice be ‘ merely incidental ’ to the discussion . |
| 13 | Its particular advantage to the marketer is that it may be used without extensive training in mathematics or computer programming , since programming is done by the package itself when in operation . |
| 14 | Programs chosen must also be relevant to the subject matter studied by pupils and not artificially inserted into the curriculum The software must relate directly to the way in which the sub being taught in a particular school and one disadvantage of generally produced software , in history for example , is that it may be rely in one school but not in another . |
| 15 | However , the functionalist view is that it would be quite misguided to attempt to explain behaviour by making direct reference to the subjective or phenomenal qualities ( technically known as qualia ) of these mental states . |
| 16 | Two is that it would be extremely unwise for Biggs to engage in serious pugilistic activity without first retaining the services of an attendant unlikely to panic at the sight of a badly lacerated brow . |
| 17 | The truth as observed at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday is that it would be exceedingly foolish for admirers to think of Mason as better than a developing apprentice in a punishing trade . |
| 18 | The move caused some surprise in Whitehall , where the belief is that it would be damaging to Mr de Klerk if he were seen to be making reformist moves because of external pressure . |
| 19 | One measure of the weakness of such enterprise is that it would be extremely difficult to ensure , across such a wide range , the quality control necessary for the export market outside Africa . |
| 20 | A further justification was added in a Department of Employment memorandum in 1988 : ‘ There is currently no legislation in this country to prevent age discrimination in employment and the Government 's view is that it would be neither beneficial nor practical to do so . |
| 21 | Far from possessing cruise and Pershing II missiles as purely retaliatory weapons after an assault by SS-20s , the strategy is that it would be NATO that would first let loose the dogs of nuclear war . |
| 22 | The argument most often put forward against tax relief for childcare is that it would be extremely costly to the Exchequer . |
| 23 | However , influenced by the fact that the deterrence policy is firmly adhered to by the governments of the superpowers and has some political acceptability , and that the traditional doctrine of the laws of war did not apply to preparation for war , his eventual conclusion is that it would be difficult to state that any measures short of use are illegal . |
| 24 | All we can say with certainty is that it would be the biggest man-made explosion in history , which does n't sound so bad when you say it quickly as I 'm saying it now . |
| 25 | What makes the deviant interpretation incorrect is that it would be the only one in step , for in this case correctness just is being in step with the others . |
| 26 | What it is , is that it would be averaged out over the blood as a whole . |
| 27 | What it says is that it would be self-contradictory to posit something as a topic , while denying the possibility of referring to this something with the phrase " the same A " . |
| 28 | The problem is that it would be in the self-interest of any one of us to withhold our contribution , let everyone else contribute , gain free health care and keep the cash . |
| 29 | One is that it would be wrong to assume that all or even most judges have viewed the distinction in a purely instrumental fashion . |
| 30 | A second possible objection to the rational basis/rightness approach is that it would be somehow inconsistent with the juridical basis on which judicial review has been built in this country . |