Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it is [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its distance is about 15000 light-years , so that it is one of the closest of the globulars . |
| 2 | No-one has claimed that this is the only cause of strike activity — merely that it is one of many factors that have a bearing on strike activity . |
| 3 | In other cases the prisoner will know only that it is 20 years or more , although if he asks and if it is no more than 20 years he will , as I understand it , be given that information . |
| 4 | Such a circumstance would be most regrettable — and not only because it is one of the functions of education to dispel confusion . |
| 5 | I mention this only because it is one of the dominant features in an inspector 's life , the shadow of which he feels at all times . |
| 6 | And now that it is 8.58 pm and I have done fifty-eight minutes of work , which I deem to be more than enough for one night I am signing off , because , I 'm lazy . |
| 7 | We have the gallery still running reasonably well but it is one man ten hours a week his experience is badly limited this marvellous free resource is no longer being called for . . |
| 8 | But Liverpool City Council still fosters hopes that the former United Biscuit factory in Edge Lane will be accepted as part of the Manchester Olympic bid , even though it is 35 miles from the proposed host city . |