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

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1 Many of its countries are relatively small and it is geographically more diverse than any other continent .
2 For Gramsci , law reflects economic relations , and it is eternally and generally a weapon of class domination , a classical Marxist position .
3 To achieve this necessarily takes time and it is thus the means and goals which we should examine today rather than the setting first of arbitrary ( financial ) parameters .
4 The value of professionality is that it focuses attention upon the activities of teachers in relation to pupils , each other and their organisations and it is thus a dynamic concept in opposition to the rather static ‘ characteristics ’ or ‘ descriptive ’ approach inherent in most studies of professionalism .
5 Little detail is provided , however , and it is thus difficult to evaluate his work fully .
6 And it is thus perhaps not surprising that there are already so many of them among our genes .
7 These were the only elements on the council between which there is any contemporary suggestion of hostility and it is thus significant how evenly they were balanced on the commissions .
8 In the present case , he submitted , the House of Lords has now conclusively ruled that there is not and never was a contract , and it is thus apparent on the plain words of article 5(1) itself that these restitutionary claims can not possibly be properly classified as matters relating to a contract .
9 Education performs political , social , as well as economic functions and it is thus too important to be made the slave to the needs of the economy even though it has no option but to be its servant .
10 He is once referred to by the chronicler , Matthew Paris [ q.v. ] , as ‘ Master Longespee ’ and it is thus possible that he was a son of William Longespée , third Earl of Salisbury ( died 1226 , q.v. ) , who was Henry III 's uncle .
11 The theoretical territory attached to this hillfort , as suggested by Ian Burrow , is very similar to the land defined in the seventh-century charter , and it is thus possible that the estate of the hillfort persisted throughout the Roman period to emerge as a land unit belonging to Glastonbury Abbey until the sixteenth century .
12 These were the only elements on the council between which there is any contemporary suggestion of hostility and it is thus significant how evenly they were balanced on the commissions .
13 It is coming from a region where the mean velocity is smaller and it is thus likely to be moving downstream more slowly than its new environment ; i.e. it is more likely to have negative u than positive .
14 Judge Donald Herrod added : ‘ This is a very dramatic turn of events and it is right that this prosecution should not continue . ’
15 It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies .
16 The PAC wants hard and fast information , and it is right that it should .
17 The Engineering Employers Federation says that its members ’ strongly support the Government 's objective of providing a balanced and effective framework of trade union and industrial relations law ’ and that ’ the step by step approach has been seen by all to have worked successfully and it is right that it should continue . ’
18 He insisted that no decisions about future spending had been taken , but he believed that it was right ‘ that there should be a widespread review and it is right that there should be a big debate . ’
19 Press hostility to this idea was scarcely free of self-interest , but there were bigger issues at stake and it is right that they prevailed .
20 Many of the more worrying disciplinary problems of childhood and adolescence involve moral rules , and it is when children break these rules that parents become most perturbed .
21 And it is when the stillness comes —
22 The Earth , in fact , has enormous ‘ sinks ’ for both oxygen and carbon , and it is when these become full that excesses accumulate in the atmosphere .
23 Such episodes may , of course , be confused as passing acknowledgements , but the readiness to exchange such signals is one of the ways in which we register the normality of the passing scene and it is when we encounter consistent anomalies in the broadcast that we begin to suspect and perhaps report something odd .
24 Once again we see the Spirit is related securely to the person of Jesus , and it is when the Spirit enables a man to see who Jesus is and respond to him in allegiance that faith is born .
25 Now we have the first royal re-marriage and it is barely raising a ripple .
26 There are many galleries through the world , and it is no longer so difficult for an artist to show work independently .
27 And it is no longer raw between us
28 The Nursing Agencies Forum at the RCN is evidence of the agencies ' rise to respectability , and it is no longer the case that ‘ those who can , do ; those who ca n't , work for agencies ’ .
29 Later still , it may be dissociated from this role and used for general storage , in which case its previous specific symbolic role is ignored , and it is no longer of consequence whether its ritual status accords with that of its contents ( Miller 1985 : 172–83 ) .
30 Following the Tustain decision both limbs of this test are satisfied before the institutions invest , and it is no longer necessary to show that Newco remains close after it has actually acquired the business and commenced trading .
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