Example sentences of "it is [adv] [subord] " 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 as though there is a central axis , around which the gemstone of beauty is formed . |
| 3 | If J. A. Hobson was justified in speaking of a ‘ crisis of Liberalism ’ in 1909 , it is equally if not more justified to think of the Edwardian period in terms of a ‘ crisis of Conservatism ’ . |
| 4 | It is equally if not more striking that these remarks about mania in the individual manic-depressive of modern times hold perfectly true for the cultural equivalent : the first cultivating societies . |
| 5 | It is simply because most diets involve immense change in eating habits and usually some degree of hunger ; they are too difficult for most people to maintain long enough to become slim . |
| 6 | ‘ That is no accident , it is simply because the market does not test the currency , ’ said one observer . |
| 7 | It is simply because we are fitter and tougher , harder and stronger , that we come on top on so many occasions . |
| 8 | It is simply because , if there is such true consent , the essential element of dishonesty is not established . |
| 9 | It would be wrong to conclude that it is simply because women live longer than men . |
| 10 | ‘ But it was never taken up because it is slower because of its weight and size . ’ |
| 11 | It is past before it has scarce begun . |
| 12 | This is particularly so in the UK where the social class implications of accent , furnishings and behaviour are so complex that it is rarely if ever possible to produce a domestic situation which is really widely acceptable , in the fullest sense of the word . |
| 13 | It is presumably because of this innate variability of habitat that there are so many species of organism on land : probably anything between 10 and 70 or more million , compared with maybe only a few hundred thousand in the oceans . |
| 14 | Can it possibly be that , while there is the situation in such a case , it is otherwise if the lessee has failed to get rid of the subterm until after a notice is served ? |
| 15 | The answer to those questions may be said to depend on whether it is generally as serious to obtain sex by deception as it is by other means ( threats , force , fear ) . |
| 16 | Because the procedure can not apply to development already started and it is generally as quick to apply for actual permission if the planning authority 's officer advises that it is necessary , this does not get as much use as might be expected . |
| 17 | It is particularly because of their potential when evaluating activities that objectives should be measurable . |
| 18 | Yet in a country where the pull of the past is so strong and the future so tantalising , it is best when you are travelling to live exclusively in the present . |
| 19 | It is best if lead training is started quite young so that , as an older puppy , it will freely accept a check chain when it is placed around its neck . |
| 20 | As the eyes are so sensitive , it is best if the patient cleans them himself , using damp cotton wool balls . |
| 21 | In fact , it is best if we actually have three separate accounts . |
| 22 | On every occasion when a loose ferret is worked for rabbits it is best if it is muzzled . |
| 23 | In order to disguise what you are doing from your spectators it is best if you stand with your left side to the audience as the crucial move occurs on the inside of the left hand . |
| 24 | ‘ It is best if they just tell me she was drowned . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It is best if you keep the doors locked , ’ said Mr Thabane to me . |
| 26 | It is best if you make each drawing to the same scale . |
| 27 | It is best if the sieve is flat-bottomed , but you can use a round-bottomed kitchen sieve if this is what you can get most easily . |
| 28 | It is best if there is a separate room for dressings , and trolleys are kept solely for dressings . |
| 29 | ( My own opinion is that , owing to the pressure of time , it is best if the senior member alone gives the judgment without consulting the other members . |
| 30 | It is best if this person can be someone who is or has been a teacher and who can therefore understand and evaluate production proposals that come up . |