Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efficiency sounds like a strong claim , but actually it is pretty weak : all it means is that current information is available to everyone , either because they know about it or because enough people do , so that it is fully represented in the price . |
| 2 | It is pretty certain that , in term of what adults mean by ‘ longer ’ the children do not really think that the pencil is longer ; but why do they say this ? |
| 3 | If you look upon Art as a frill , it is pretty certain you are not letting it play its proper part in the school . |
| 4 | It is pretty certain that the watercourses which ran down down to the lake were pretty foul in those days , although , it is quite possible that excrement was utilised to a fair extent as a garden fertiliser . |
| 5 | ‘ But it is pretty marvellous do n't you think ? ’ |
| 6 | Having listened to most of that stuff for the first time in seven years yesterday , most of it is pretty embarrassing . |
| 7 | As the Secretary of State rightly said , it is pretty well impossible to protect people in a particular occupation . |
| 8 | Now you may say well why , why does body fat matter er for female reproductive success and the answer to that if you think about it is pretty easy . |
| 9 | And when we think about it , Edgeware Road , number seven , it is pretty early on , I ought to have realized , but I did n't know London well enough then . |
| 10 | It is pretty comprehensive and I shall certainly try some of my old favourites from the list . |
| 11 | It is pretty odd that whilst playing croquet they do not use ordinary equipment , instead they use flamingoes as their mallets and hedgehogs as their balls . |
| 12 | Even now it is pretty impressive , and if you do n't want to go north , have a look at Lancing . |
| 13 | It is pretty powerful , is it not ? |
| 14 | Coun Young said : ‘ I think it is pretty ludicrous to suggest anyone is getting rich by taking people to hospital ‘ But if people who do this sort of thing are facing the prospect of making a loss they just wo n't bother . |
| 15 | Marcos loyalists now poke fun at the Aquino administration 's boast that it has built a new stability , arguing it is pretty fragile if it wo n't allow a dead man home for burial . |
| 16 | ‘ Stasis ’ is a collection of tracks recorded between 1971 and 1975 , and I 'm here to tell you that most of it is pretty awful stuff . |
| 17 | IT IS pretty rare to come across a football manager brave enough to hold up his hands the day after a beating and invite criticism . |
| 18 | It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper . |
| 19 | Describing Bell Lawrie as ‘ old friends of ours ’ , Brewin 's managing director , John Hall said yesterday : ‘ We are at the moment in negotiations , but it is pretty difficult to say too much until it is clear where we are going . ’ |
| 20 | If one looks at the figures presented at Budget time for the previous financial year , for the financial year 1967/1968 , it is pretty clear in broad terms on what scale the process had been in operation . |
| 21 | However , Washington is urging exiles to ‘ interest the media ’ , acknowledging privately that ‘ it is pretty clear that whatever we do will have no impact on the Banda government . ’ |
| 22 | It is pretty clear that while big business is being done in local area network hubs and routers , the market is very overcrowded , and in those circumstances , the outcome is usually that the rich get richer and the poor get taken over or go bust : observers reckon that in that context , the richest of the rich is Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , which did $340m in the year to last July and is estimated to have at least 45% of the market and maybe as much as 50% ; Wellfleet Communications Inc is thought to be number two , with anything from 12% to 20% , with 3Com Corp third at around 10% , but in the hub sector alone , SynOptics Communications Inc is thought to have about 33% and Cabletron Systems Inc 15% , although the latter says the two are neck and neck . |
| 23 | It is pretty clear that the reason Z fails in Z6 is that 6 is a composite integer . |
| 24 | It is pretty clear that Labour believes that it can not get a majority for those policies domestically and therefore wants to achieve a situation in which they can be imposed on us by a majority of continental countries . |
| 25 | ‘ It is pretty clear they have got the message from institutional shareholders , ’ but he warned that it could take years for Barclays to recover from the bad lending made in the late 1980s . |
| 26 | I have five daughters and two granddaughters , so it is pretty exciting , as you can imagine , suddenly to have a boy . |
| 27 | If that is a railroad , it is pretty slow , and I would not look forward to travelling on it . |
| 28 | It is pretty disgraceful if I can not put to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East the points which have been the centre of debate in this country for the past 10 days , but I shall do so . |
| 29 | It is pretty safe to conclude that the bats really were biased in favour of feeding old friends rather than strangers from a different cave . |
| 30 | If you let your eye rove over the map , it is pretty obvious that one of the new towns should be near the Channel Tunnel and another near the new Stansted Airport . |