Example sentences of "it is [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather like competition in the market place , only the costs of failure are very much higher , involving violence and anarchy . |
| 2 | A lot of speakers think this is what prevaricate means ; it is rather like procrastinate ( put off until tomorrow ) and the ‘ stall ’ meaning makes sense in most contexts where the word is actually used . |
| 3 | It is rather like feeling that the dark companion of Sirius is somehow less certainly known because we infer its presence from its gravitational effect upon the Dog Star than it would be if we could actually see it — as if gravity were somehow less real than light . |
| 4 | It is rather like warfare , the seesaw of offensive and defensive , of tank armour and the high-velocity penetrating bullet . |
| 5 | It is rather by way of explanation for what followed Ridge . |
| 6 | It is however to oil production that India is looking . |
| 7 | It is equally at home in any international cuisine . |
| 8 | Although the jurisdiction to stay a pending prosecution is undoubted , it is equally beyond doubt that the discretion to prevent a prosecution from going to trial should be very sparingly exercised . |
| 9 | Complaints often from cold , damp , penetrating winds and it is principally of use in colds and coughs . |
| 10 | It is utterly at variance with this to adopt what Andrew Wilkinson has nicely described as the role of ‘ the teacher as self-appointed proof-reader … |
| 11 | Of course it grows colder as you move away from the equator , and it is rarely above 5°C at latitudes greater than 50 degrees , north or south . |
| 12 | Eubank had a perfect reply : ‘ It is not about belts , it is about winning and I beat you . |
| 13 | It is certainly not about quality , and it is not about service . |
| 14 | But as far as we are concerned it is not about money , it is about thanking the fans . |
| 15 | It is not about circus clowns tumbling along the track , and sideshows of beautiful women , stiltmen and floats . |
| 16 | It is not about figures . |
| 17 | He said that it is not about additionality , but about the way that the Government are targeting the money . |
| 18 | ( Mackie , 1973a ) It is about f and s It is not about x and nor is it about any other event or condition that did occur , and , to speak vaguely , is part of a full story of why the wipers started . |
| 19 | It is not about sincerity , so much as being seen to be sincere . |
| 20 | But it is not via Lourdes that I would choose to enter Bigorre . |
| 21 | How he heard of verre anglais is unclear , but it is not beyond belief that it stemmed from rumours that effervescing Champagne had become a popular drink in England . |
| 22 | Right and that was the result we generally observe in agriculture in that , for example , if you have ever been down to er the West the West of England where there is a number of apple growers you will find that when there is a very big harvest , right , apples just left to rot on trees , right , simply because it is not worth farmers harvesting er those apples because they wo n't get er price to cover their average vanable costs . |
| 23 | It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking . |
| 24 | ‘ It is not worth shoe-leather . |
| 25 | Frank Sinatra always mentions the writer when he introduces a song , but it is not through generosity , she believes . |
| 26 | How alcohol predisposes to peripheral oedema is not clear , but it is not through hypoproteinaemia . |
| 27 | In any other sphere of life , when the demand for your product collapses for reasons entirely beyond your control , you do n't try to drum up new custom , you wind the business down and go into something more profitable ’ ‘ But there is a disturbing feeling about that something irreversible may be happening in the world and it is not to Britain 's advantage . |
| 28 | Figure 6.2 ( b ) can be taken to represent the Earth and the Moon today , though it is not to scale and the tides have been greatly exaggerated . |
| 29 | It is not of course the case that the interaction between the major and minor keys actually has this quality — indeed there is no interaction as such — we project that feeling quality onto the structure . |
| 30 | It is not of course the criminal acts themselves which draw the majority together , but the publicising and punishing of crime , with the public trial of law-breakers also helping to clarify the boundaries of socially acceptable behaviour . |