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

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1 These two groups of animals are quite unrelated , but both still have living representatives in the oceans , and so it is possible to look at living animals to help with the interpretation of fossil examples .
2 And so it is necessary to ask how we are to transform the distinction commonly drawn between arts and sciences , or perhaps replace it , deep though it goes in the structure of our educational curriculum .
3 Development of the productive forces is the basis for human development in general and so it is necessary to examine every fact of social life with this in mind .
4 The difficulties they faced were that the earth 's climate is controlled by many factors and so it is necessary to separate out their relative importance in order to reveal the change in climate resulting from increasing greenhouse gases .
5 It may be contended that members of parliament wish to ask questions in the House when major aircraft accidents occur and so it is necessary to have a particular minister to give the answers .
6 It is very important to keep the Star Zoo alive and so it is necessary to keep it secret .
7 The full information about the structure of space–time is embodied in the metric equation , and so it is reasonable to expect that the connections should be functions of the metric coefficients .
8 The Riemann curvature tensor ( rank 4 ) quantifies space–time curvature , and so it is reasonable to expect that should be a contraction of the Riemann curvature tensor .
9 A proportion of the X-ray pulsars , which are near relations of the black holes , are members of binaries , and so it is reasonable to expect that some stellar black holes should be bound to a visible star .
10 It is very difficult to make generalisations about how HIV infection develops in children and so it is best to keep in close contact with your own doctor about the child 's progress .
11 There is , of course , one important difference , namely , that in the latter case the meaning options are paralleled by differences of form , and so it is easy to individuate and enumerate the elements from which the choice must be made .
12 Some submersible pumps have a very small discharge and so it is important to judge the water flow required before shopping around .
13 If it is very diatonic , our memory of the tonic key is not disrupted , and so it is important to preserve correct key relationships .
14 A communicative support system sounds a rather arid notion and so it is important to reiterate that it is embedded in a social relationship and only has meaning in such a flesh and blood context .
15 Initial impressions can cloud later perceptions , and so it is important to consider the ways in which a favourable initial response can be achieved .
16 The suggested causes of a given phenomenon can not always be independently observed , and so it is hard to rule out the possibility of there being explanations alternative to the one proposed .
17 The reason is simple , if you have taken the trouble to read it the content is fresh in your mind and so it is easier to find a reply .
18 The problem with books are that they date very quickly and so it is difficult to get up to the minute advice .
19 The council incompletely straddles two census tracts and ‘ officially ’ defined neighbourhoods : Perry South and California Kirkbride , and so it is difficult to establish the representativeness of its membership , although owner-occupancy rates were around half that of the active membership in both census tracts .
20 TELEVISION 'S merciless eye does footballers few favours and perhaps it is unfair to take them to task too readily for their occasional excesses .
21 We have a 1974 , Series III88 Land Rover ( 2¼ litre petrol ) and apparently it is possible to have a C/R of either 7:1 or 8:1 .
22 There was always a danger that the legend would become larger than the man , just as it certainly has with his close friend Warren Beatty and thus it is easy to see why Jack Nicholson now guards himself well and repels invaders .
23 That would be selfish and thus it is necessary to encourage them as they wheel their trolleys round the glittering supermarkets , by the playing of Christmas carols .
24 The remittance basis is only applicable to Cases IV and V and capital gains tax and thus it is important to keep within the correct Case .
25 Moreover , it is difficult for anyone but the manager to have available all the information he or she has taken into account at the point of decision , and hence it is difficult to monitor the manager .
26 An objective duty to balance potentially conflicting interests would present the courts with a near-impossible task and hence it is impracticable to impose one : not only would the court need to assess the likely impact on each group of a contested business policy , both in the short and long term , but also it would have to evaluate the policy in accordance with a theory which stipulated when one set of interests should prevail over the others .
27 The dorsal arm plates are very thin , visible only in dried specimens and often it is necessary to dissolve away the skin , nearly rectangular and contiguous or nearly so at least on proximal segments .
28 Short-term memory is a temporary store of information and often it is irrelevant to convert the information into a long-term memory , the type of memory that enables us to recall events years later .
29 And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring .
30 More important , however , it accords with the universally acknowledged realities ( as , indeed , Lord Sankey indicates ) and here it is important to bear in mind the significance of the ‘ realities ’ for the purpose of constitutional laws .
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