Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] it is [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the more unstable a relationship is , the less likely it is that contraception will be used . |
| 2 | But if time is not too desperately important it is one way of seeing a vast stretch of surprising and magnificent country , some interesting and unspoiled old towns , perhaps even of discovering some village in the heart of the still primitive agricultural Auvergne , some little-known hotel where one would like to stay instead of hurrying on , to which one would return another year . |
| 3 | The more dense and multiplex the ties , the more likely it is that complexity will be maintained . |
| 4 | Hence , the smaller the amount of equity the more likely it is that debt holders may have to bear some part of any losses . |
| 5 | Does the case suggest that the worse the plight of the promisor ( for example , the bigger the penalty clause ) the greater the benefit to him and the more likely it is that performance of the contract will be held to be consideration ? |
| 6 | The historian normally wants a longer perspective and the more time passes , the more likely it is that research will be concerned with change over time rather than with a ‘ snapshot ’ of 1991 . |
| 7 | When she had finished she said to Piers , to hide her confusion , ‘ I — I always think how odd it is that turtle soup does n't taste of turtle . ’ |
| 8 | One British observer has pointed out how curious it is that assessment of performance procedures has been developed ( by the APU ) without any reference to procedures for the improvement of performance . |
| 9 | How risible it is that art can not provide a better imitation of life , when we know that life itself is so illusory . |
| 10 | The distinction is a very significant one , because all the great religions of the world have emphasized how important it is that religion and life are bound up together , that religion does not hive off into some remote corner unrelated to the real world ; all religions do bother about the secular in the first sense of the word — about how life is actually lived and what people are and do , and not just about what they say and believe . |