Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although power is widely spread it does not necessarily mean that it is evenly spread between all groups . |
| 2 | As the UK is predominantly urban it follows that our dominant ideology must be urban . |
| 3 | The market for this type of thing is rapidly dwindling , and while the title track is politely inoffensive it has the spark of a box of matches dropped in a swimming pool . |
| 4 | The market for this type of thing is rapidly dwindling , and while the title track is politely inoffensive it has the spark of a box of matches dropped in a swimming pool . |
| 5 | And that 's basically all it boils down to . |
| 6 | The grass is so dry it seems impossible that it can ever come to life again : yet the huge acacia trees along the riverbed are putting out blossom , delicate sprigs of green in anticipation of the rains to come . |
| 7 | Peter Grimes is so famous it runs the risk of being taken for some sort of operatic norm . |
| 8 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 9 | At the moment protein A is so scarce it costs between £5 and £10 a milligram . |
| 10 | And the flame propagation is so rapid it 's consumed that it just blows . |
| 11 | John McGahern , on the other hand , writes , speaks and thinks in a style that is so sparse it defies anyone to deny the truth at its core . |
| 12 | The flowchart , to explain how the chemicals are made , is so complicated it resembles a bowl of spaghetti . |
| 13 | The picture , above , in the National Portrait Gallery , London , is so popular it has even surprised the man who painted it , postman 's son Richard Stone , 40 . |
| 14 | It 's so incongruous it stuns me for a few seconds . |
| 15 | The milk 's so cold it makes my teeth ache . |
| 16 | ( Like all Mazdas it 's so reliable it comes with a 3-year warranty ) . |
| 17 | make laughing , a derogatory terming degenerate or C , a penis that 's so shrunken it looks like a pair of testicles ? |
| 18 | ‘ You know , ’ said Simon , ‘ she 's so thick it takes all the fun out of it . |
| 19 | We offer the other hand , and eventually a life line is discovered , although it 's so short it appears that we died several years ago . |
| 20 | Of course some are useful in identifying spies who would have otherwise gone on undetected but often this is not all it seems , as the Russians may have decided to expose one or two spies who have served their purpose in order to protect a more important one still at work . |
| 21 | As you can view , world peace is not all it promised to be , so if your planet ever has the choice of voting for world peace , do not follow the example of the planet Earth . |
| 22 | We 'd took incidentally which is not uninteresting it took us ten days to get to er Egypt , to get to Alexandria from er Plymouth , we went from Plymouth . |
| 23 | They want to sell , but Aegon is not sure it wants to buy . |
| 24 | And that 's it 's not true at all it 's just different it considered . |
| 25 | In a water that is largely featureless it does n't need to be anything too pronounced to be attractive to fish . |
| 26 | Just because it 's not warm it does n't mean you ca n't have custard with it . |
| 27 | It 's not unusual it happens every day da da da . |
| 28 | ‘ When a judge is unduly lenient it shakes the public 's faith in the legal system . ’ |
| 29 | What I was going to suggest then , Chairman , in the light of , in a sense a change of , a change of thought by me over the Christmas period , in a way it 's probably best it happened , is to ask if we could , because I 'm , I 'm keen that , this kind of different kind of strategy , there is a , there is a member ownership of the strategy , rather than just put something to you , that you would then have to , you know you , you have the paper in front of you , it 's a thirty page document , and you decided is actually to suggest that you have actually a , a , a member group of , of , of a few members , perhaps three or four members , erm , to actually work with me on this , in the development of that strategy , so there was actually a member involvement , because it 's straying more into the political field . |
| 30 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |