Example sentences of "it is [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems " fair " to both parties only because it is not obviously unfair to either of them , It is rather like the resultant of mechanical forces pulling in different directions . |
| 2 | ‘ It is rather like the older generation 's fascination with the Royal Family . ’ |
| 3 | It is rather like the older generation 's fascination with the Royal Family , ’ he added . |
| 4 | It is however in the naked male figure , always the central theme of Greek art , that we first see , alongside the changed spirit , the vital loosening of formal structure by which sculptors of this generation made clear their break with archaic conventions and opened the way to classical developments . |
| 5 | We see her so with Theseus again on a near-contemporary Attic cup ( fig. 98 ) ; and it is presumably in the same role that she dominates the latest and best preserved of all archaic pediments , at the two ends of a temple on Aegina , dedicated to Aphaia , a local deity associated with Artemis rather than Athena . |
| 6 | It turns out that if I choose a direction and look at the electron 's spin in relation to that direction then either its axis of rotation points along that direction or it is wholly in the reverse direction . |
| 7 | As we saw above , and Lyons would not disagree , it is mostly in the paralinguistic features that English performs this function . |
| 8 | It is thus from the 1920s that one can realistically chart a conflict in the Conservative party between a libertarian-individualist tendency and a paternalist-collectivist tendency . |
| 9 | The hair is like Apollo 's , and it is particularly in the incisive detail of the head that one sees how much one loses in the marble . |
| 10 | It is particularly in the National and Regional Parks which are areas of planning control that these issues come into sharper focus . |
| 11 | It is largely in the last decade that banks have modified their traditional role of borrowing from individuals to lend to industry , and have started lending massively to individuals themselves too . |
| 12 | As it is partly in the same taxonomic class as fish and water-creatures , it is associated by the Lele with forest water and hence with the spirits of streams . |
| 13 | The place of learning and how we construe it is barely on the public agenda . |
| 14 | It is here in the tiny , pumping heart of Europe 's ready-to-wear industry that hundreds of sans-papiers , immigrants without work permits , come to be taken on for errands that could last half an hour or a day . |
| 15 | It is here in the big crunch that Dr Tipler looks for God . |
| 16 | It is squarely in the scientific tradition and is a conscious attempt to apply scientific method to international relations . |
| 17 | There is generally little intermarriage between the Central Asians and other non-Muslim nationalities , and a knowledge of Russian is much less common than it is elsewhere in the other post-Soviet republics . |
| 18 | The proportion of female members of political parties and of local soviets in these republics is considerably lower than it is elsewhere in the former USSR ( although in 1988 , ironically , the first woman regional party first secretary for many years was appointed in Uzbekistan ) . |
| 19 | It is clearly of the utmost importance to UK businesses to know in competition matters the status of communications with their lawyers , given the Commission 's wide powers of investigation . |
| 20 | Thus it is clearly in the wider national interest to reduce the scale of the public sector , whoever controls it , and ‘ where there is a clash between local and national mandates the national mandate must prevail ’ ( Michael Heseltine , in Hansard , Vol. 16 , No. 37 ) . |
| 21 | If you rely on your computer and value the investment you have made , then it is well worth the few minutes spent on preventative maintenance . |
| 22 | In short , the strategic choice in British and American urban policy has not been simply about the encouragement of economic development , it is also about the changing nature of that development itself , more specifically the changing nature of the labour process in an economy designed for the post-Fordist era ( Lash and Urry , 1987 ; Murray , 1989 ) . |
| 23 | But it is also about the unstable evolution both of homo erectus and his culture , all of which may be a vast illusion if what man does is simply continue his savagery while trying to repeat faint echoes of some suspect original grandeur . |
| 24 | It is also in the technical field that women are noticeably absent . |
| 25 | As well as being a legal requirement , it is also in the registered owner 's interests to ensure that the information held on the UK Register by the CAA is accurate , as the addresses held on their computer database are used for the distribution of Emergency Airworthiness Directives and other safety-related material . |
| 26 | Ironically , it is just at the organizational level that ideas of deterrence , incapacitation , rehabilitation , and restitution to the community and the offended gain this season 's attractive fashionable glow . |
| 27 | With × 7 , it is just in the same field with the little trio of Gamma Octantis , which is a good way of locating Octans . |
| 28 | At once cerebral and aware of the business at hand , The Shamen turn Techno into positivist ( ignore the connotations ) poetry and the soon-come single ‘ Love , Sex , Intelligence ’ is set to be an anthem , pitched as it is exactly at the right level , ie not over our heads . |
| 29 | ‘ It is exactly like the Nazi regimes of the 1930s . ’ |
| 30 | At the lowest and highest levels , network density and multiplexity is normally high : it is chiefly in the middle ranges of society that social and geographical mobility lead to the development of large numbers of relatively weak ties : individuals at these levels have more uniplex and diffuse ties . |