Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that the reason for that is that when the Bible is used in school or in church it is nearly always in the form of a modern version , which is entirely unmemorable and unpoetic . |
| 2 | It is thus precisely through a clearly registered refusal to withdraw from the day-to-day pleasures of thinking , listening , looking and feeling that the sensual references within these paintings remain anchored within socially experienced and theoretically informed sensibilities . |
| 3 | If such shafts found within the pyramids do have any significance it is most probably as a passageway for the spirit of the deceased to mount up to the stars . |
| 4 | It may be ‘ pain for pleasure ’ but it is most certainly worth it |
| 5 | But it is most certainly of major conceptualising importance that the word homosexuality was first invented , by the Hungarian Benkert , in 1869 ; its adoption into English usage in the 1880s and 1890s was a vital stage in the articulation of a modern concept of the homosexual . |
| 6 | It is open daily in the summer months except Sunday mornings , and afternoons except Tuesday in winter . |
| 7 | It is open daily from 10am until 6pm . |
| 8 | Their marriage of mind barely peeps above the surface of surviving documents , though it is plain enough in the two masterpieces they produced in 1945 , Brideshead Revisited and Animal Farm . |
| 9 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
| 10 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |
| 11 | It is surely only in English that an academic would admit to finding ‘ conceptualizing ’ difficult . |
| 12 | It is here already for severe combined immunodeficiency , where the gene is cloned , the affected cell is easy to access , and the biochemistry is well understood . |
| 13 | It is even there in much sociology which , so proponents of this view would claim , is implicitly racist in treating ethnic minorities as the deviants from the British norm . |
| 14 | If the patient is unconscious and will never regain consciousness , or is suffering from a progressive or fatal illness , then the respirator must be seen as heroic treatment and may be turned off , as in the case of Karen Quinlan , when it is no longer of any lasting benefit . |
| 15 | Later still , it may be dissociated from this role and used for general storage , in which case its previous specific symbolic role is ignored , and it is no longer of consequence whether its ritual status accords with that of its contents ( Miller 1985 : 172–83 ) . |
| 16 | However , the C compiler now has to be bought separately as it is no longer to be bundled with Solaris : SunPro claims that it is no longer a necessary item for customers . |
| 17 | It is no longer under strength . |
| 18 | So far as I am aware it is no longer in production but there must be many thousands in existence and it is a reasonable assumption that many of these are not now being used . |
| 19 | Wayne Clark , SNA architect with Cisco Systems commented that ‘ there will always be customers who go with APPN just because they 're IBM users ’ — but that may turn out to be a dated view : even IBM these days concedes that it is no longer in a position to dictate standards in the brave new world of open systems . |
| 20 | As it is no longer in focus the drill serves to reinforce what has already been drilled and ensures automaticity of control . |
| 21 | Once the microcomputer has been switched off the data is only available from one or the disks — it is no longer in the computer 's memory . |
| 22 | It may be that the foundation of the chain of trading posts had to be established by force , but it is probably only in this very limited sense that the Minoans imposed their will on the Aegean world outside Crete . |
| 23 | But it is probably more at an implicit , unexamined , level that much anthropological writing adheres to the frustration-aggression hypothesis . |
| 24 | Indeed , it is superficially so like a fish that it is known locally as the Congo eel . |
| 25 | It is also well worth using this style sheet as the starting point for any new ones . |
| 26 | It is also well worth having expanded memory — luckily the same add-in converts extended to expanded memory and supports data storage in memory above the 640K , conventional memory , limit . |
| 27 | PC Works 3.0 is a good bargain for anybody new to computing on a DOS-only machine and it is also well worth upgrading to if you currently use MS Works . |
| 28 | What is more , it is also exactly like the cliff sections in the Isker gorge , north of Sofia and elsewhere in Bulgaria , at the other end of Europe ( figure I.I ) . |
| 29 | While the Fugue is delicate and the voices emerge well , it is also slightly under tempo and the Forlane sounds sleepy at crotchet=76 where Ravel asks for 96 , although the final E major episode is closer to the marked pace . |
| 30 | This was the case before the boundary extension but it is also so after 1988 , despite its move into areas with active local authorities and residents . |