Example sentences of "is [adv] [conj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is presumably because it is seldom possible to heal the breach that is usually created by fighting a legal battle . |
| 2 | Either the car engine is on or it is not . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there is no alternative to understanding the world through interpretations and models and hence through what are , in the last analysis , intellectual fictions whose warrant is only that it is as if they were true . |
| 4 | A domicile of origin is notoriously adhesive , but it is only if it is replaced with a foreign domicile of choice , and three further years elapse , that the individual will escape the UK inheritance tax net . |
| 5 | To understand the world one is in is to understand where it came from , and how it came ; and it is only because it is understood , or thought to be , that one can aspire to change it . |
| 6 | The normal bass roll-off of -6dB by 38Hz is low enough to lend a convincing weight to the majority of signals and if the bass seems initially a little ‘ polite ’ to some ears it is only because it is tight , with little or no hangover — the dual coupled-cavity technique really does give a positive ‘ start and stop ’ throughout its range . |
| 7 | Yes it is so because it is nostrum , cut out the nostrum , and let me give my heart to God — and all is ... [ rest of line illegible ] |
| 8 | An artist can never have seen too much , read too much , and even if the time is right for a fallow period , then that is exactly when it is also right to go out and see , read , feel , as deeply as possible . |
| 9 | To most Anglicans now , though , the main thing about the papacy is not that it is evil — that seems an absurd accusation — but that it is frequently silly and wrong . |
| 10 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 11 | The answer is not that it is demonstrating ‘ wounded pride ’ , as its owners believe , but instead is revealing its social inferiority . |
| 12 | The problem for many people today is not that it is too difficult to believe but that it is too easy . |
| 13 | Or , as John Wisdom was later to put it , ‘ the peculiarity of the soul is not that it is visible to none but that it is visible only to one ’ . |
| 14 | The major criticism of this approach to describing organisations is not that it is inaccurate but that it ignores all the informal and interpersonal aspects of organisations and concentrates too heavily on the formal aspects of work organisations . |
| 15 | The ultimate justification of punishment is not that it is a deterrent , but that it is the emphatic denunciation by the community of a crime . |
| 16 | The point of this statement is not that it is true . |
| 17 | What distinguishes the British Constitution from others is not that it is unwritten , but rather that it is part-written and uncodified . |
| 18 | It is simply that the type is more or less stable , established by convention , whereas the token is not since it is conditioned by context . |
| 19 | Majorese can sometimes be almost equally hard to follow ; but this is not because it is deceptive . |
| 20 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 21 | ‘ My routine in practice is just as it is on course . ’ |
| 22 | On every occasion when a loose ferret is worked for rabbits it is best if it is muzzled . |
| 23 | This is usually because it is felt that they can not cope with anything at a higher level or with more demanding work — they ‘ can not concentrate ’ , ‘ can not transfer knowledge from one situation to another ’ , ‘ can not remember from one day to the next ’ , ‘ can not cope with sequential tasks ’ , ‘ get confused by experiencing more than one way of doing something ’ , and most definitely ‘ can not do fractions ’ . |
| 24 | This is partly because it is hard to identify true costs in any health system , but also because the market for health care does not operate as a normal market — particularly with respect to the nature of demand . |
| 25 | This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down but mainly because I do n't have an intuitive feeling for equations . |
| 26 | Well , certainly we believe that there can be all sorts of erm techniques that can be very useful , like communications skills and assertiveness , but our understanding is also that it is not only about the skills that people have it 's also about the understanding behind those skills . |
| 27 | It is also because it is a well-written , intensely moving story which shows that MPs can and do achieve things , that true love can and does exist , and which restores one 's faith in politicians at a time such restoration is badly needed . |
| 28 | What is meant is really that it is not possible to learn to sign like a deaf person , i.e. without an ‘ accent ’ . |
| 29 | THE spring Town Crier came yesterday and what a terrific read it is now that it is being produced by Darlington College of Technology students . |
| 30 | When women do confront sexism , the glib reply is often that it is a joke . |