Example sentences of "it is [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather Britain that has chosen the Italian road and opted for a one-party state that may soon have more difficulty in government than it imagines . |
| 2 | But it is rather Sartre 's own text that seems to be caught between these two dialectical possibilities of expansion and compression in a double logic . |
| 3 | It is strictly PPR , and a long study of Pooley 's is recommended before starting your flight plan . |
| 4 | Eurocheques are accepted for fuel , but for landing fees it is strictly cash . |
| 5 | It is simply nonsense . |
| 6 | They do not see falling over as ‘ failure ’ ; it is simply part of the process of learning . |
| 7 | For them , too , it is simply ideology and false consciousness . |
| 8 | We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will . |
| 9 | Such is the efficacy of propaganda for the global capitalist system that it is rarely capitalism itself that is targetted in such cases , but the symbols of American or European national power . |
| 10 | It has a pH value of 5.5 which means it is slightly acid . |
| 11 | IN THE HOME , as in industry , it is overwhelmingly men who are the designers and repairers of machines , while women are the operators , expected to perform neatly and swiftly on typewriters , sewing machines and the rest , but not to understand how they work . |
| 12 | What it is anyway proposal representation are being sent out if anybody down here you 'll go into England if I voted conservative you know , just say for example it would n't be the one past the post it 'll be the one with the most votes |
| 13 | it is generally cost effective ; and |
| 14 | It is generally time consuming involving more sources and therefore more expensive than a reactive search . |
| 15 | There are two disadvantages to this approach ; first , it is enormously time consuming and second , the polygon topology of the input coverage is not preserved , so one can not work back to the initial coverage attributes . |
| 16 | It is both sides of the equation . |
| 17 | ‘ It is nearly midnight , after all . |
| 18 | On the other hand , since it is mostly women who are responsible for running households and caring for dependent members of their families , it is not surprising that they are involved in helping each other in these practical ways , which lend themselves to being organized on a reciprocal basis . |
| 19 | It is thus part of the red-pied lowland group of northwest European cattle which also includes the Belgian Red Pied ( or Campine ) and the Polish Red-and-White Lowland . |
| 20 | This interpretation of the structure of power and the role of the state in modern capitalism has been questioned because it is overly determinist and descriptive . |
| 21 | But even though the category is entirely hypothetical , it is nevertheless part of the ‘ table of literature 's possibilities ’ which it is the business of poetics to construct . |
| 22 | For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out . |
| 23 | In A Room of One 's Own Virginia Woolf argues that even though a person 's gift for writing may be small , it is nevertheless death to hide it . |
| 24 | A hyper-sensitive fellow , such things cause him great and needless upset but to the rest of the band , it is largely water off a duck 's back , and they are dutifully protective of their singer , as are many of the people working around the band . |
| 25 | I regard arms races as of the utmost importance because it is largely arms races that have injected such ‘ progressiveness ’ as there is in evolution . |
| 26 | In other words , the boundaries of the formal labour market are being more tightly drawn , a process associated now as in the past with high rates of male unemployment , and it is largely women , with responsibilities for caring , who are being pushed out . |
| 27 | It is largely thanks to this one moment of history that there currently exists an unbroken line of Spanish-speaking nations through 90° of latitude from Tijuana in northern Mexico to Punta Arenas in southern Chile . |
| 28 | It is largely thanks to the perseverance of a former CO of the RAF Institute of Aviation Pathology , Group Captain Mason ( now Professor of Forensic Pathology at Edinburgh University ) , that there is international recognition of the contribution of the aviation pathologist in aircraft accident investigation by way of a specification recommending their positive involvement in formal investigations written into Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation . |
| 29 | On record at least , it is largely choirs that have waved the flag on behalf of Byrd 's forgotten motets , none more valiantly than the Choir of New College , Oxford , directed by Edward Higginbottom . |
| 30 | It is finally time to return to the problem with which we started , to the tension between individual organism and gene as rival candidates for the central role in natural selection . |