Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do .
2 But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction .
3 It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all .
4 The child needs to know that it is not his fault that everyone is so upset and that someone has died and he is not being punished .
5 ‘ Old enough , I think , to know that it is not . ’
6 I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported .
7 Scandalmongers will be disappointed to know that it is not the prostitutes which I have in mind here , rather the fact that this little thing called Amendment 27 to the Maastricht bill is also receiving such a chorus of anticipation .
8 You ca n't see it but you need to know that it is there .
9 Disruptive behaviour has a direct and , at times , devastating impact upon teachers , but it is important to establish that it is not a recent phenomenon .
10 The shareholders enjoy an additional layer of protection with regard to gratuitous payments , in that in order to show that a payment is authorised by the company 's memorandum it will usually be necessary to establish that it is reasonably incidental to the company 's business purposes , in essence , that it is for the company 's benefit , which is an objective question .
11 The legislation does therefore not set up any presumption in the employee 's favour ; rather it is for him as claimant to lead evidence which tends to establish that it is more likely than not the employer gained from possession of the patent .
12 Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself .
13 In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem .
14 Lord Keith , along with other British judges , sees the rule in Marleasing as one of interpretation only which leaves the national judge a margin of discretion to find that it is not possible to reconcile national law with Community law .
15 So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd .
16 okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch .
17 In either case , however , the status of a media item may be changed using option 9.3.0 to indicate that it is either ‘ full ’ or ‘ in use ’ respectively .
18 It should be noted that the trend of an increase in unemployment from about 5% to about 10% over ten years is sufficiently general to indicate that it is not a function of the style of government .
19 There is nothing on the face of section 76(2) ( b ) to indicate that it is exclusively concerned with confessions obtained by police misconduct .
20 There is a vast fund of evidence to indicate that it is just not the case that the experience that observers undergo when viewing an object is determined solely by the information , in the form of light rays , entering the observer 's eyes , nor is it determined solely by the images on the retinas of an observer .
21 Indication of perspective presents another convention in which one thing may not in reality be smaller than another but may be shown as such to indicate that it is further away from the viewer .
22 But we will hear more of this in years to come and it is yet another sign that church planting is on God 's agenda at this time for Britain , for Europe , and for every nation .
23 People were sitting the main point of the chair is is to enable you to write and it 's actually very satisfactory to write in , it 's just the right height .
24 This is possible using RR or Rover SD1 solenoids but as a kit is not available a great deal of experimentation is required to get the system to work and it is virtually impossible to fit to rear door .
25 In the United States it is assumed that citizens have the right to know and it is up to the government to prove in court that certain types of information should not be disclosed .
26 A far-southern constellation , not hard to find because it is so compact ; it lies more or less between Achernar and Canopus .
27 I 'd like to return to Spurn whilst it is still there to return to — before the gales of winter win their battle and demolish it yet again .
28 And this time no one will even try to pretend that it is n't murder . ’
29 You begin to see that it 's just another language .
30 You 've got a fair bit of our money tied up at the moment , and naturally we 've got to see that it 's all right .
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