Example sentences of "[conj] it is [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The importation of English grammar into BSL is a particular feature of low status languages , where the learner 's language interference may continue unchecked until there is a communication breakdown and where it is usually the lower status person who accepts the responsibility for the breakdown .
2 Does the successful transaction rely on a strong element of facility or product , or it is purely the human interaction giving service ?
3 Sheffield boats two championship matches and a Sunday game at present , but has only 499 members , while Scarborough 's membership is a disappointing 164 , although it is easily the best ground in the county for pay-at-the-gate fans .
4 Although it is perhaps the single most prevalent aspect of post-war industrial relations systems in advanced capitalist societies ( Crouch , 1982a ) collective bargaining is in fact a multifaceted institution which , on an international basis , has diverse meanings and functions .
5 We feel quite like VIPs , although it is really the only practicable way of travelling , since the Institute is a couple of miles away , and even if we had the energy to cycle ( as all the Chinese do ) I do n't think we would have the time .
6 With the evidence in hand I see no reason to disagree with your tentative conclusion that it is probably the 1822 issue … ‘
7 I have rarely if ever met a prison administrator , who does not subscribe to the doctrine that work for prisoners is the best training for life after release , and that it is also the best mechanism for running a humane and tidy prison .
8 I take the view that it is also the legal principle .
9 They then realize that not only is this type of undecidability possible in Xorandor 's logic , but that it is also the founding condition of their binary systems .
10 The question people will ask is whether it is a budget for Britain or a budget for the Tories and the answer is that it is clearly the latter .
11 Just because you can buy a scanner which will capture photographs and drawings does n't mean that it is necessarily the best way .
12 And remember , just because a lender brings out a loan with the ‘ professional ’ as its target market , this does not mean that it is necessarily the right one for you , no matter what your taste in trousers .
13 This distinction becomes clearer when one sees that it is mainly the industrial applications which have developed into dispute resolution .
14 Thus , although he does not enumerate a catalogue of rights it seems clear that it is chiefly the conventional political and civil liberties , including a right to freedom of conscience , that are associated with the traditional doctrine of liberalism which would qualify as rights in the strong sense .
15 It assumes that it is actually the unemployed who are being imprisoned , and , furthermore , is clearly untenable when faced with data which show the numbers unemployed in England and Wales many times greater than the numbers imprisoned .
16 By recording body temperatures throughout the day of groups of well-adjusted shiftworkers , intolerant shiftworkers , and day-workers who had given up shiftwork because they could not tolerate it , Reinberg has demonstrated that it is indeed the best-adjusted group whose circadian rhythm was most immutable .
17 I emphasise again that it is only the nearest worlds in which the antecedent is true that count .
18 I would like to add that it is only the first of many Platinum Hotels I intend to open throughout the world . ’
19 Vickery ( 1973 ) argues that it is only the latter , based on knowledge and skills that are at an advanced level rather than merely different , that should qualify as specialization .
20 Furthermore , the notion that it is only the left hemisphere that operates in a serial manner is not supported by the results of Gross ( 1972 ) , Niederbuhl and Springer ( 1979 ) and Polich ( 1980 ) all of whom found evidence of serial processing in both visual fields .
21 There is growing , matter-of-fact , support for the proposition that significantly greater public investment in schools and colleges , in roads , railways and on the environment would be money productively spent , and that it is only the damaging and doctrinaire intransigence of Mrs Thatcher which obstructs such expenditure .
22 Our amendments make it absolutely clear that it is only the deliberate promotion of homosexuality by local authorities that would be affected .
23 Next , Barro tests the proposition that it is only the unpredictable part of money growth that influences the rate of unemployment .
24 AD then test the prediction that it is only the unpredictable component of DM that has an impact on real output in the way described in section 6.2 .
25 The main one is that it is now the only complete remaining structure of the BCR , apart from three stations which have become houses .
26 The Commission reported that their visits to the inner and outer areas of the main conurbations convinced them that it is now the large housing estates in the inner ring , or on the fringes of the city , that present the most pressing urban problems in the mid-1980s .
27 Legislation has not only so multiplied that it is now the characteristic activity of the modern state , but it has been addressed to complicated matters which have increased the complexity and bulk of individual statutes so that they often go unread even by the legislators who pass them .
28 I believe that it is entirely the right direction .
29 The practical difficulties of nursing a sick relative can be very great , but Pitkeathley agrees that it is often the emotional upset of having to bath a previously fastidious mother , or pretend your father has spilt his tea when the bed is wet , or simply having to make all the decisions for a once strong parent , which cases the most upset .
30 What is curious , however , is that it is often the same object which does all of these things .
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