Example sentences of "it [adv] [is] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Well it mostly is in the week anyway .
2 If the toll-road is not manned , that will almost certainly be because the road is closed by snow , as it normally is for a good seven months out of the twelve .
3 In the interests of peace and harmony ( such as it normally is on this list ) , please can we keep the topic of daft mail messages from Mad Manc off the list now ?
4 It seems to me to reduce the passport to what it generally is in practice , a not too efficient identification card , of which few authorities take much real notice .
5 This may not always be in the best interests of the company but as , on the whole , the Press acts in this area with reasonable restraint , it generally is in the best interests of investors and the public .
6 The class , located as it usually is in a prefabricated hut at the bottom of the school garden , is seen as inferior .
7 That means the cooking is even more dreadful than it usually is in these places . ’
8 It genuinely is like that and a statement like ‘ Mwat Is Murder ’ causes offence to the strictly guarded view of the nice , normal family . )
9 On such days the hills hold a mixture of azure and gold never seen at any other time of year ; the cobalt sky is more intense than it ever is in summer , and the straw-coloured hills shine strong in the light from the low winter sun .
10 The main aim of policy was — as it still is in many poor countries — to take rubbish away from places where it posed a health hazard , and ( to a lesser extent ) to make sure that waste sites were properly run .
11 Granted , hypothetically , that it may be a flexible legal concept , it nonetheless is of a nature which does not extend to the union of two people of the same sex .
12 It always is on the nights I 'm out with the UDR .
13 ‘ And the greatest of them is what it always is with women . ’
14 It seems that everything is as it always is in my kind of life .
15 It also is at least implicit in Gouldner 's demand for a reflexive sociology heralded in Coming Crisis .
16 He believed as Lionel Curtis did that Indians ' souls had to be renovated before they were fit to govern : he deeply shocked the American journalist William Shirer by announcing that ‘ Self-government … is inconceivable and unattainable without the removal of untouchability , as it also is without Hindu-Moslem unity … we shall be unfit to gain independence so long as we keep in bondage a fifth of the population of Hindustan . ’
17 And the location of where he dug it up is on every twenty-fifth-century map .
18 Yeah it probably is with the trauma of losing his wife .
19 I 've seen enough violence in my life to know the only way I can deal it out is in sudden fast dollops — a well-aimed kick or punch , a gun if I have to .
20 The good housekeeping exercise which we 've just circulated the documents on , which we 'll be consulting on in two weeks time tt er it mainly is about changing the organization to allow us to delegate authority down to an appropriate level .
21 In the CEGB 's implicitly preferred high-nuclear case , nuclear power would account for 72 per cent of capacity in 2030 ; this would probably make the CEGB more dependent on nuclear power than it now is on coal .
22 There are now only 23 permanent residents in Pennan , which was once as popular with smugglers as it now is with film fans .
23 Marxist ideology was no better guarantee of Vietcong decency 20 years ago than it now is for Swapo ; nor has it preserved the Sandinistas from endemic corruption in their civil war against the American-backed Contras .
24 However , it really is worth persisting with flash .
25 However , it really is worth persisting with flash .
26 Someone for whom it really is of no concern whether others enjoy or suffer is schizophrenic ; he is no egoist , but one whose imaginary viewpoints are disconnected from the real people around him .
27 I mean the way we look at it really is to group villages together so perhaps they 'll have more cover if they 've got two or three specials who work different hours if they have a vehicle they can have access to , provide the cover there .
28 ‘ But that would look rude — as if I thought the house was n't warm enough , which it really is with all that paraffin burning away . ’
29 I think that the point , has to be made that when we 've had a transport supplementary grant decision and settlement as poor as this one , then it really is about trying to protect and enhance the people of Lincolnshire and the road network , rather than just for once , party politics , because I ca n't honestly believe that the conservatives would actually , feel that this is a fair , reasonable settlement .
30 It is essential to locate the dpc to ensure it really is at least 6in ( 15cm ) above ground level and has not been submerged below paving , flower beds , piles of rubbish or suchlike .
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