Example sentences of "is [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | disputing if it whether it is or it is n't , but how can we show that it is ? |
| 2 | Whether it is or it is n't does n't matter what does matter is its ' performance and to test this you have to fit the device . |
| 3 | Chairman I , I , I am and some of my colleagues a little confused on this paper , erm and I really ask that I , I understood that when we discussed this last , erm that the , the minor work which was one , one debated , erm was going to be increased to two million and that two million er , two million spend was going to come out of the existing budget , I 'm not quite sure from this whether it is or it is n't , could you explain ? |
| 4 | The third aspect of the egalitarian feminist address to sex differences psychology is that it is increasingly trying to take the diversity of these differences into account . |
| 5 | For , as he explained , the point about literary sex is that it is invariably tacky and clichéd out of context , no matter how high-brow the author . |
| 6 | One of the most important aspects of deixis is that it is invariably distinguished by its use . |
| 7 | This reason is that it is mathematically much less powerful than Chomskian grammar . |
| 8 | Basically our belief is that it is not possible to make a profit . |
| 9 | To speculate about possible good communists in the GDR is also to ignore the central fact about the country , which is that it is not one . |
| 10 | The underlying point is that it is not every act of provocation which should be allowed to reduce murder to manslaughter , but only those serious enough to unbalance the behaviour of a person with reasonable self-control . |
| 11 | Its great merit is that it is not confined to particular activities , and therefore has an across-the-board application to different sources of endangerment . |
| 12 | However , as Voltaire famously observed , the trouble with common sense is that it is not very common — least of all , it seems , among research scientists . |
| 13 | The problem with Channel 5 is that it is not lying empty , like a new motorway just waiting for somebody to cut the ribbon . |
| 14 | The problem with placing Mary Leapor within this discussion is that it is not certain that she read any of the poems with which these critics are primarily concerned . |
| 15 | Another major difference between Leapor 's ‘ Crumble Hall ’ and other poems of this type is that it is not a panegyric . |
| 16 | The problem is that it is not just life expectancy that determines whether the child has this ‘ right to live ’ ; often handicaps such as Down 's Syndrome which is one of the primary forms of mental handicap identified by tests , are considered such a burden both to the child and the family that the pregnancy will be terminated . |
| 17 | The argument made in this book is that it is not to all land-users . |
| 18 | The biggest single difficulty in drawing attention to urban poverty is that it is not new , but simply — in some of its most worrying manifestations — getting worse . |
| 19 | The joy of this procedure is that it is not laborious . |
| 20 | Another problem with the method of Riemann is that it is not practically possible to generalize it to the case for non-colinear collisions . |
| 21 | Once again the problem is that it is not evident that the testator intended a legal obligation to be created . |
| 22 | However that may be , the striking point is that it is not the law of trusts which is leading the way to generous interpretation here , but instead the civil law . |
| 23 | The answer is that it is not . |
| 24 | One of the problems created by this hidden nature of learning is that it is not clear whether or not the same process is involved in widely different activities . |
| 25 | One weakness of Rationality and Relativism is that it is not always clear that the various authors interpret relativism in the same way . |
| 26 | Wind power enthusiasts claim that a big advantage over solar power is that it is not necessary to cover the whole of the ‘ harvest area ’ . |
| 27 | One of the reasons they are often confusing and unsatisfactory is that it is not always totally clear who is interviewing whom . |
| 28 | Our experience , even in the Church of England , is that it is not a foolhardy thing to plan to double the numbers in a local church over a period of two or three years . |
| 29 | The problem with critical doubt is that it is not doubtful enough : it does not subject itself to its own criteria . |
| 30 | One point that has to be made straight away , is that it is not a good idea to start buying the components for a project published some time ago unless you are certain that all the components are still available ( even up-to-the-minute designs can suffer from supply problems with components — see Everyday Readout in this issue ) . |