Example sentences of "it [vb -s] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner . |
| 2 | The crucial factor of associational appositeness relating a symbol to what it symbolizes is rarely seen directly and explicitly , although heraldry is replete with such purpose-built symbols . |
| 3 | The three properties can be explained on the assumption that a synapse will be potentiated if , and only if , it is active at a time when the region of dendrite on which it terminates is sufficiently depolarized . |
| 4 | In a materialistic society , the relative deprivation … it entails is keenly felt and idleness gives time for resentment and envy to grow . |
| 5 | The simple reason is that the safety net function it performs is only rendered necessary by a semantic sleight of hand : we think we need the net because our original conceptions of propriety of purpose or relevancy are drawn unrealistically wide , thus allowing cases to ‘ tumble through . ’ |
| 6 | Any ‘ stable world ’ it presents is further overwhelmed by the progressive revelation that each narrator exists only as an imaginative device of a subsequent one , in a succession of evasions leading towards the unnamable author and the depths of an impulse to articulate , which can neither rest nor ever consummate its desires . |
| 7 | The pleasure it gives is rapidly subsumed by emotions that squeeze the heart . |
| 8 | This is called the RECORD OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING ( RET ) and the way in which it operates is fully described below . |
| 9 | What it does is annually adjust your interest rate taking into account the previous year 's rate changes . |
| 10 | One way that looks as though it works is simply to enter the formula +A5 into C5 and then copy from A5 to A6 … |