Example sentences of "it is [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that male spatial arrangements are contingent upon those of females , who are themselves dispersed in relation to dietary ecology , and yet in this species it is females rather than males that move between social units . |
| 2 | It is aftermath rather than the novel itself . |
| 3 | It is proof enough that Tom Jones is not going to take the easy path that most of his generation would choose . |
| 4 | Maybe , but at least it is Budapest rather than Vienna shopkeepers who benefit from Hungarians ' urge to splurge ; and the availability of a wide range of goods has encouraged people to hold forints , the Hungarian currency . |
| 5 | It is leadership only if America is convinced that others will follow — that is the contingency . |
| 6 | The fact that it is women rather than men who are commonly the carers wo n't come as a surprise to most people . |
| 7 | The NCC agrees that in nearly all British freshwaters it is phosphate rather than nitrate which is the limiting factor in controlling eutrophication and that a phosphate directive is required to deal more effectively with it . |
| 8 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , there is a long tradition of general education in higher education there ( which suggests that it is England rather than Scotland which is atypical in this respect ) . |
| 10 | If states wish to solve problems of unemployment , then military expenditure is not a very effective method because it is capital rather than labour intensive . |
| 11 | It seems to be commonly supposed that it is description rather than theory as such which makes the most direct contribution to language teaching . |
| 12 | Coincidentally restrictions on helium sales from the USA also enter the Jones story too , though this time it is India rather than Germany that is involved . |
| 13 | When a programme has been developed to a stage where it is appropriate to subject it to observational tests it is confirmations rather than falsifications that are of paramount importance , according to Lakatos . |
| 14 | As Robert Paul Wolff pointed out in an acute critique of conventional pluralism , it is easier and more plausible to urge compromise when it is interests rather than principles which are at stake . |
| 15 | It is Leavis rather than Lewis who , when he writes of literature , sounds washed in the blood of the Lamb . |
| 16 | Deviant motivations , for example , are still taken as given ; it is conformity rather than deviance that remains problematic . |
| 17 | Unlike many of the other Community programmes , DELTA concentrates exclusively on technology and it does so in the knowledge that it is technology rather than social/educational concerns that will bridge the yawning gap between training needs and training provision in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 18 | There is a popular assumption that it is men rather than women who feel the full effects of retirement . |
| 19 | It is men rather than women who have , typically , been able to fulfil these requirements . |
| 20 | This could indicate that it is computation rather than the understanding of concepts which is stressed by teachers at this stage . |
| 21 | It is words rather than meanings that are problematic ; in fact , the point of reform is to ensure that words express what speakers ‘ really mean ’ rather than unfortunately conveying something speakers do not intend . |
| 22 | The satirical phrase used to embarrass the ‘ Action Men ’ is that they have the ‘ John Wayne syndrome ’ ; the fact it is Wayne rather than Rambo who is used to ridicule them gives a clue that it tends to be the older members of the force who use the term to describe the exuberant younger policemen . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it is Adler rather than Freud who sums up for me what was happening at this stage of the disease . |
| 24 | It is dictation from the centre ; it is administration rather than government . |
| 25 | Since then it is events rather than governments that have been in command . |
| 26 | Ere she was all made : 't is woman more than man , |