Example sentences of "it is [adv] [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ . |
| 2 | It is rather that until it is recognized as a convergence , and as a problem of convergence , the usual reaction , even when sympathetic ( and this , among an older and established generation , is comparatively rare ) is to see it as little more than a loose grouping of specialist studies either of communications , in their modern specialized form as ‘ the media ’ , or of the rather differently specialized field of ‘ the arts ’ . |
| 3 | It is rather as though there is a central axis , around which the gemstone of beauty is formed . |
| 4 | It is right that when one pays for a pint of beer , one should get a pint of beer . |
| 5 | if I strike a child in a manner likely to cause harm it is right that if the child dies I may be charged with manslaughter . |
| 6 | I agree that most of us need work — but I would point out that it is partly because when you 're unemployed and dependent on the state for support , you do n't have enough money to use your leisure time in the way you might want to . |
| 7 | It is not , indeed , ruled out by the logic of the naturalistic fallacy that degree of goodness and degree of pleasurableness might coincide , it is just that once one is free of the fallacy one will no longer see any reason to hold this . |
| 8 | This relationship is evidently not to be confused with a sexual relationship ; it is just that once you have entered into an artistic liaison of this intensity , the sexual shenanigans are likely to follow . |
| 9 | It is just that if you try to use the laws of physics , in a naive way , to understand the behaviour of a whole living body , you will find that you do n't get very far . |
| 10 | St Paul 's is only a short walk from Fleet Street but it is uphill and after her diversion to the canteen Rain was short of time and forced to hurry . |
| 11 | I 'm not breaking my stated rule here and recommending this hotel , just saying that it is there and that if you could get the back bedrooms you would have a most remarkable scene to look out on . |
| 12 | there is a consistent air of frustration in the writings of some of the social scientist contributors … it is almost as though they wish they were in closer touch with the operational side of the service . |
| 13 | It is almost as though he converted too fast . |
| 14 | At this lowest level of British industry it is almost as though struggles are not expected to occur , let alone be won . |
| 15 | It is almost as though one has to pass a test to be their friend . |
| 16 | It is almost as though bad organizations are self-created Frankenstein monsters beyond the control or influence of leaders . |
| 17 | It is almost as though fate is saying , Look , I 've made it easy for you ; just get on with it , do it . |
| 18 | It is almost as though they ‘ want ’ to slot together in a particular way , but this illusion is just an inadvertent consequence of their properties . |
| 19 | It is almost as though each improvement in the missile stimulates the next improvement in itself , via its effect on the antidote . |
| 20 | It is almost as though the word job itself has acquired a life and purpose of its own over which we have lost control . |
| 21 | It is almost as though people want to show how intelligent they think they are by the degree of their emancipation from Bible and Catechism |
| 22 | It is merely that after the Glorious Revolution this element within Tory ideology became increasingly dominant , gradually supplanting the more absolutist tendency within Tory political thought . |
| 23 | I suggest that the erm ticket price should be two pounds fifty as it is now and that the concessionary price should be increased to two pounds . |
| 24 | It claims 100% compatibility with Windows 3. x ( as it is now and as it may become to ward off emulators ) and no degradation in the performance of any Windows application . |
| 25 | X ( as it is now and as it may become to ward off emulators ) and no degradation in the performance of any Windows application . |
| 26 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |