Example sentences of "it is [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather an inherent feature of the division of labour . |
| 2 | It is rather an attempt to move from a clearer understanding of support tasks to the organisation of skill ( and staff ) mixes required to perform support tasks . |
| 3 | I do realise however that you do n't live in Currie , and that it is rather an early start . |
| 4 | It is however an approach which has its limitations . |
| 5 | It is however an important part of the women 's movement , which might lack the explicit analysis of male oppression and resistance , but is none the less an affirmation of women 's allegiance to each other . |
| 6 | It is however an open question whether the infinite family plan implied by the Barro model is a better guide to the effects of debt than the shorter horizon model used earlier . |
| 7 | It is however an interesting program that takes you through placing the actors to shooting frames . |
| 8 | It is equally an offence to administer drugs to a woman for a similar purpose or to procure a girl under 21 or a defective to have sexual intercourse with a third party in any part of the world . |
| 9 | It is disliked because it is physically an exhausting activity ; more than any of the other tasks it consists of actions which have to be repeated time and time again with little variation . |
| 10 | Secondly , it is similarly an offence for someone in the course of a business to publish such a notice in any advertisement ( or catalogue or circular ) or to supply goods bearing any such notice . |
| 11 | What remains uncertain is whether consciousness is a separate phenomenon which needs explaining , like language or vision , or whether it is simply an attribute of certain neural processes in the same way as high reflectance is an attribute of the piece of paper you are looking at while you read this , something which is simply part of the physical characteristics of the brain or the paper . |
| 12 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
| 13 | It is simply an extension of computer science principles to new levels of sophistication . |
| 14 | It always strikes me when you see meths drinkers and imagine those people as children — they were all beautiful then , and it is simply an inexplicable phenomenon which makes me sit here and that other person is out there on the street . |
| 15 | This does not make the experience any less valid ; it is simply an indication of the difference between the visual powers of one person and another . |
| 16 | It is simply an appetite , like any other , and Jackie can be at his funniest when he is mocking this propensity in himself : the endless appearances , the systematic use of his celebrity , the unlimited sponsorships , the directorships , the new business ventures , the life that is taken up , 100 per cent , in ‘ making it ’ and , having made it , in making some more . |
| 17 | Armstrong replied , in a later number of the same journal , that it is simply an empirical fact about our proprioceptive powers that we are able to perceive the heat of our hand directly but not the roughness of its surface . |
| 18 | It is simply an element in what , in its totality , is seen as the drama of the self-determined unfolding and return to itself of Absolute Mind . |
| 19 | The first is based squarely on the suggestion that it is simply an illusion to suppose that any truth , or any significant role in social explanation need be assigned to counterfactuals of the form , ‘ If individual X had not had the psychological characteristic a , they could not have performed action b and event p would not have occurred . ’ |
| 20 | It is simply an area of mountain country full of pine trees with up tilted tips to their branches , of bushes , boulders , pasture and wild flowers ; and the longer you wander about there the more flowers you find , unassuming yet plentiful , in an incomparable variety , as well as exquisite fist-sized mushrooms , like polished stones . |
| 21 | It is simply an added responsibility . |
| 22 | This does not mean that it is simply an exercise in resource management . |
| 23 | Well in a sense it does not explain anything ; it is simply an elaborated gloss on my statement that homicide and sex are the expected loci of sin . |
| 24 | The equation itself , therefore , is not the subject of debate : it is simply an identity . |
| 25 | This is not an argument , it is simply an affirmation of incredulity . |
| 26 | It is principally an area of London Clay with Brick Earths , a structureless loam to which the district owes much of its fertility . |
| 27 | It is rarely an impossibility to find a third person , and in gusty weather this must make sense . |
| 28 | The court may order the whole or part of any pleading to be amended or struck out on the ground that ( a ) it discloses no reasonable cause of action or defence , or ( b ) it is scandalous , frivolous or vexatious , or ( c ) it may prejudice , embarrass or delay the fair trial , or ( d ) it is otherwise an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 29 | But it is normally an appeal to possible rather than to actual cases that is used to generate scepticism about the existence of minds other than our own . |
| 30 | Money also facilitates the payment of taxes ; it is thus an indispensable tool for a modern state or nation . |