Example sentences of "and it is [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value of professionality is that it focuses attention upon the activities of teachers in relation to pupils , each other and their organisations and it is thus a dynamic concept in opposition to the rather static ‘ characteristics ’ or ‘ descriptive ’ approach inherent in most studies of professionalism . |
| 2 | The hare and the hatter also decide to put the poor little dormouse into the teapot , which is rather cruel because he did n't do anything to them and it is rather a strange thing for his companions to do . |
| 3 | The Education Reform Act required college governing bodies to be dominated by employer interests , and it is normally a requirement that at least 50% of the attendance at any governing body meeting should be from the employer sector . |
| 4 | Formal paved areas in the garden provide a nice contrast to the freely curving growth of the plants but , however well laid the paving stones , tiles or bricks , sooner or later weeds sprout through the cracks , and it is either a case of weedkiller , not popular with organic gardeners , or constant weeding , which scrapes fingertips and breaks nails . |
| 5 | And it is partly a matter of organising paragraphs — how , for example , to organise a comparison . |
| 6 | And it is partly a matter of knowing where to find help : how to find examples and how to work out all the possibilities of a classification . |
| 7 | The use of hydrogen bonds , that is hydroxyl groups ( -OH ) ( see Appendix 1 ) to control adhesion at an interface is very common in living organisms and it is presumably a convenient method where the environment is continuously wet . |
| 8 | " I understand the position , and it is clearly a very difficult one , " he said . |
| 9 | One possible reason could be that in addition to a general sense of guilt associated with the organs of sex and reproduction , there is the added fact that most surrogate mothers belong to the economically disadvantaged classes ; and it is arguably a case of exploitation if a woman is driven to use her reproductive organs to escape from a state of poverty . |
| 10 | The film gives peace of mind to the potentially vulnerable , such as the elderly , and to the parents of young children , and it is also a deterrent to the intending intruder . |
| 11 | Its characteristic musculature is strongly marked in crossbred offspring , especially from the age of six weeks , and it is also a colour-marking breed : reds and blacks are diluted to salmon pink and a ‘ creamy soot ’ ( pale coffee to agouti ) while whites are often diluted to off-white , but the coat pattern of the dam is often transmitted and a white dorsal stripe is dominant , though ghostly . |
| 12 | We intend to place the money in our building fund and it is also a faith-building experience for us to see God blessing us in this way . |
| 13 | The lifeworld both provides the basis of meaning on which communicative action can draw and it is also a product of the exchange of meaning that constitutes communicative action . |
| 14 | It helps if it is small , and it is also a great advantage if it can easily reach the next tree without having to climb down to the ground and then climb up again . |
| 15 | In part a history of this conflict , Hooper 's book is a useful English language reference ; and it is also a personal odyssey . |
| 16 | It can have a powerful emotional effect , and it is also a useful aide-mémoire . |
| 17 | It is a pleasure in itself , and it is also a psychological event . |
| 18 | Now if you 're gon na be writing in software you do n't actually look at it like that maybe and it is also a useful way to generalize these decoders . |
| 19 | The van is maintained by the company , but the representative pays for the petrol ( on the premise that it can be offset against tax and it is also a bigger inducement to make a sale ) . |
| 20 | We devised a test for this model — and it is just a model — by trying to weaken the signal from the grafted polarizing region . |
| 21 | There is , in fact , an organisation in France that runs world championships for the speedsail , where tactics are unimportant and it is just a matter of courage as speeds of up to 50mph . |
| 22 | Many know the words and it is just a case of practically demonstrating the love of Jesus to them . |
| 23 | The points in two point four to two point nine are nevertheless important and we would er I would strongly recommend that you endorse the erm making of those points to Aida If they then do n't take those points on board , you would have the opportunity when the plan is , is finally put on deposit of making a formal objection to the plan on the basis that we disagree with that particular wording , but I have here th th th the strong expectation that Aida will take on board those small points anyway and it is just a matter therefore o of making minor changes , but unfortunately the conformity issue is , is a , is a rather different one whether we are er in er er er as an authority in agreement with what Aida is saying in their plan . |
| 24 | All it is it 's plugged in in in the hall and it is just a box a little box about this big and we just er it 's just worked on the different |
| 25 | Our view is that the medicine has been delivered and it is just a matter of sitting it out , ’ said an MAFF specialist , John Wilesmith . |
| 26 | It always strikes me when you see meths drinkers and imagine those people as children — they were all beautiful then , and it is simply an inexplicable phenomenon which makes me sit here and that other person is out there on the street . |
| 27 | The award is given every two years and it is generally a requirement that the discovered drug is in therapeutic use . |
| 28 | And it is both a warning to the public and an acknowledgment of the long climb out of recession which still lies ahead . |
| 29 | This is particularly true of items from India and Pakistan , which are often sold under the names of famous Persian or Turkoman weaving groups , and it is sometimes a matter of confusion whether the name Isfahan , for example , refers to a rug made in the Persian town of Isfahan or whether it is an Indian or Pakistani rug composed in a traditional Isfahan scheme . |
| 30 | The madness of hunger is indeed very much like rabies and it is truly a dog 's death . |