Example sentences of "[adv] it is [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is religious education which is in large part to blame for this , together with the restrictions on sexuality imposed upon children in schools and colleges . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is English society in general ? |
| 4 | Perhaps it is this sense of impotence — and the sense that English 's image of ‘ effeminacy ’ or ‘ femininity ’ makes it appear unimportant-that has led postwar literary theoretical movements to espouse ideals of ‘ objectivity ’ and ‘ scientificity ’ . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is this point of political reassessment ; perhaps it is because I am mid-way through my life — the time when the past stretches widespread enough to contemplate , and the future is no longer infinite — which makes me want to catch memories . |
| 6 | Once more , however , that can be handled by a proper definition of the axes ; obviously it is future profitability of incremental investment that should go into the assessment of SBU attractiveness . |
| 7 | So it is worthwhile finding cleaning materials that are phosphate free . |
| 8 | So it is easy option to borrow and spend that money on services . |
| 9 | So it is good news that Sir Bryan Carsberg , new Director General of Fair Trading , is questioning both these practices . |
| 10 | I 've been , I 've came over the handlebars , Ian came over the handlebars with the bikes , so it is rough terrain |
| 11 | So it is another road movie , with a Kerouac-style character , depicting a man who had ‘ auspicious beginnings ’ — a line he wrote himself — searching for fulfilment and running into some harsh realities of life . |
| 12 | So it is common ground that the question whether or not the boys should be returned to Australia depends upon the discretion of the court . |
| 13 | is to be indicated , especially if inclined to get worse after midnight or in the morning hours , and the less it is likely Spongia will be the remedy . |
| 14 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 15 | Thus it is that Givon 1980 talks of verbs being reduced in finiteness and argues that the degree of reduction is related to the degree to which the event evoked by the complement is bound to the agent or experiencer in terms of his influence over it . |
| 16 | Thus it is common ground in the present case that if a manufacturer negligently makes and markets defective goods , for instance a car with defective brakes , or a soothing syrup for babies which is negligently contaminated with corrosive acid , and the defective goods are put on the market and sold to a member of the public , and the predictable accident follows and a young baby is injured , for instance if the baby is a passenger in the car when the brakes fail and the car crashes , or is given the syrup , it is no defence to an action for damages , by or on behalf of the baby , for the manufacturer to prove that the baby was only born after the defective goods had left the manufacturer 's premises or even had passed to the member of the public by purchase from the retailer . |
| 17 | Whether or not it is good fortune to fall in love with the person you marry , our culture dictates that this is the basis of proper marriage . |
| 18 | A fresh standard supermarket turkey costs a little more than frozen , while the price of a traditional farm fresh bird does vary depending on the producer , breed and whether or not it is free range — but you can pay up to twice as much . |
| 19 | Since all four windings in one stack must be excited concurrently it is common practice to interconnect the windings to form one phase . |
| 20 | Clearly it is good news for the people of Rugby and especially for patients attending St. Cross hospital . |
| 21 | But clearly it is another factor that would make it the less satisfactory for us simply to refuse the application without more . |
| 22 | Now it is 23 p.c . |
| 23 | Very often it is this rod that gets a bite . |
| 24 | As Mayberry ( 1978 : 33 ) points out : Today it is common practice to begin papers by setting the record straight , so to speak , sometimes with what strikes the reader as being an unusually strong position regarding inter-sign language comprehension given the current state of knowledge . ’ |
| 25 | Well it is genital mutilation is n't it ? |
| 26 | Surely it is this sort of ‘ disgrace ’ that the council should be paying attention to . |
| 27 | Arguably it is this aim which provides the ‘ ideological coherence which holds together the various initiatives and pieces of legislation ’ ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 251 ) introduced by the Conservative governments of the 1980s . |
| 28 | The situation deteriorated on June 18 when Ranjan Wijeratne , the Plantation Industries Minister and Minister of State for Defence , told Parliament that " from now on it is all-out war " . |
| 29 | But it is not about a pair of pure silk knickers at a cost that would keep a Sudanese village in staple meals for a month , rather it is sporting cotton , and giving the rest of the money to Oxfam . |
| 30 | Sometimes it is global scale and sometimes local market scale . |