Example sentences of "is [adj] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deltaic deposition can occur anywhere that a current carrying sediment slows down , especially if the cause of its check in velocity is due to it spreading out on release from a confined channel Thus submarine tidal deltas can be built where strong tidal currents pass through narrow straits between islands and then fan out . |
| 2 | It is inherent in it and inseparable from it ( Draper 1977 , pp. 484–5 ) . |
| 3 | But Mr Wallace said he had put forward such ideas last year and nothing had happened : ‘ I think everyone is asleep in it . ’ |
| 4 | But what they will be is discreet about it all . |
| 5 | What is alluded to is conflict and the civilisation we live in — Scotland in the 1980s — is rife with it . |
| 6 | He is used to it , though ; this is his 11th failure in 12 years of trying . |
| 7 | He is used to it , though ; this is his 11th failure in 12 years of trying . |
| 8 | But once he is used to it , he will trust his right , which he did often enough against Coventry . ’ |
| 9 | But Lily is used to it — a quick glance now up to the box where an evening-coated Duke sits , double-barrelled opera glass trained on her . |
| 10 | Too much bran introduced all at once to a stomach that is unused to it could cause discomfort and wind ! |
| 11 | I mean I mentioned earlier the fact that it might be that people perceive sexual harassment , where in fact the behaviour has been perfectly appropriate and it 's just that the person perceiving it is unused to it , but I think that 's the minority of cases , incidentally . |
| 12 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 13 | No Church or Chapel is complete without it . ’ |
| 14 | Frank said that he did not believe in God ; such a belief can not possibly be proved ; the good life is possible without it ; and the only faculty to judge is the reason , which tells us to say , we do not know . |
| 15 | No real democracy , nothing but a false show of democracy , is possible without it " . |
| 16 | Then we need to see that as Jesus prayed for it , it is possible for it to occur ! |
| 17 | We must show that it is possible for it to be both a resultant … and a totalizing force … how it can continually bring about the unity of dispersive profusion and integration . |
| 18 | Universe is neither predictable nor logical but because of its very nature of chaos , anything is possible within it , even the logic and order . ’ |
| 19 | This kind of putting oneself in the place of another and attempting to portray and communicate something through a medium which is unsuitable to it is very essential for an understanding of religion . |
| 20 | Man 's basic nature was identified with the li which , to the extent that his ch'i is permeable by it , patterns his behaviour in the moral order which belongs within cosmic order . |
| 21 | The objective is to achieve a selection of individuals from the total relevant population that is representative of it . |
| 22 | In Britain I do n't think the time is right for it . |
| 23 | I 'm not saying everything is right about it . |
| 24 | Erm I had a phone call just before I came out , area area party , so this 'll come It 's about actually in the ward which we narrowly missed getting last time just by erm not even a very strong The by election is on September twenty third and we want leafleters this weekend , so if anybody is able to go on leafleting , which is right between It 's er I 've got the phone number for Forgot the surname but she works with Bob , so if you ring up and say this Is that Linda who works with Bob . |
| 25 | But that is right behind it , the stream and and |
| 26 | Let me just it 's nothing special , it 's only a circle , but if you were to take that for a , as , as an example if you like as a picture of God 's purposes for us , you see the circle is , is , geometrical it 's , it 's , it 's perfect , there is nothing that is odd about it , there is nothing er , there 's no difference about it , it is perfect and that was God 's purpose and God 's plan for you and for me , that our , that our time , our being should be perfect in , in harmony with him , you think of all the things in your life personally , and then think of all the things in the , in the life of your com of our community , those things that mar it , those things that spoil it , those things that stop today be the perfect day for you that 's not God 's purpose for you they 've all come as a product , a direct result of sin , it was n't how God intended it , it was n't how God made it , his plan , his purpose for you and for me was to live and to dwell together with him in perfect harmony for ever , and there |
| 27 | The instructions about practising will have been given while he was under hypnosis ( although he will , of course , have heard and understood every word ) and so , because he is willing for it to happen , they will be firmly planted in his subconscious mind . |
| 28 | ‘ The Russian Empire ’ , wrote Catherine II in 1764 , ‘ is so large that apart from the Autocratic Sovereign every other form of government is harmful to it , because all others are slower in their execution and contain a great multitude of various horrors , which lead to the disintegration of power and strength more than that of one Sovereign , who possesses all the means for the eradication of all harm and looks on the general good as his own . ’ |
| 29 | On the other hand , the better the change-manager understands each main party 's schema , each party 's perception of what is risky for it and each party 's ability to exercise power to disrupt , the better will he or she be able to develop an appropriate change strategy and recognize where the strategy may be at risk as events unfold . |
| 30 | It was what an unreliable dog does when stroked by someone who is afraid of it . |