Example sentences of "it is [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an unforgivable , though unintended , breach of confidence ; and it is but a small consolation to know that Herr Sussmeyer thereby gained a correspondence with a young woman which he has doubtless found extremely gratifying . |
| 2 | The surviving gateway to it is but a poor mutilated fragment , hardly a ‘ hallowed gate ’ . |
| 3 | Once such theoretical weaknesses are identified , it is but a simple step to weaken the right as it operates in practice . |
| 4 | The march of the matriarchal society may have been stopped here in the United Kingdom , but it is but a temporary halt , a moment in time . |
| 5 | From the dependence and normal justification theses it is but a short step to the pre-emption thesis . |
| 6 | Once the state arrogates to itself the power to decide on all economic matters it is but a short step to the physical direction of labour . |
| 7 | It is but a short step , and it logically follows , from the consideration of social reality as contingency and facticity to the consideration of the painting process itself in terms of such contingency and facticity . |
| 8 | It is but a short step from this to natural selection and evolution in the laboratory . |
| 9 | It is but a short step to relate the same topographical analysis to village plans and to suggest , from their regularity and consistency , that they may also have been planned . |
| 10 | It is but the momentary flicker of a candle in the dark . |
| 11 | The more rules that exist , then the more likely it is that a new product or service will impinge upon or be prohibited in some way by those rules . |
| 12 | What dreadful news it is that a lethal , new form of algae pollution has been found in one of Scotland 's best known lochs , lovely Loch Awe in Argyll . |
| 13 | Repetition of the same or similar ground can be stopped by a gentle reminder , followed by asking why it is that a particular story or incident is so important . |
| 14 | By his intimate connection with the greatest men of the day in the medical profession , he obtained for his pupils the privilege of their teaching free of expense , and thus it is that a considerable number in the ranks of our profession are pupils of Abernethy , Astley Cooper , Charles Bell , Brodie , Faraday and Brand . |
| 15 | If there is one certainty in a crisis , it is that every Tory MP will put party before country . |
| 16 | It is that the appropriate design of policy and policy institutions is crucial to a successful competition policy . |
| 17 | In addition , they help to explain why it is that the average length of custody imposed by the higher courts is a historically proven index of prison population generally , once allowance has been made for changes in the level of recorded crime ( Home Office , 1956 ; but cf. |
| 18 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 19 | It is not a new idea , and it is the only demand around which all women can unite , the demand which makes explicit how it is that the working class is divided between the waged and the unwaged . |
| 20 | How strange it is that the Danish ‘ No ’ vote does not count , while the narrow French ‘ Yes ’ vote does . |
| 21 | If one can hazard one generalization from the responses to this question , it is that the early enthusiasm for undergraduate interdisciplinary ventures which was evident in the 1970s has now given way to a more ambivalent attitude , perhaps because the practical institutional and professional problems have become more evident , a view found also in the OECD ‘ Interdisciplinarity Revisited ’ report ( Levin and Lind 1985 ) . |
| 22 | The pity of it is that the Prime Minister , who said that he wanted to be at the heart of the process , has instead condemned this country to be semi-detached from it . |
| 23 | Thus it is that the evolutionary process itself has provided mankind with the means to produce that first vital element in the search for a ‘ god ’ — a first definition of ‘ goodness ’ . |
| 24 | Thus it is that the new 3-series gets a modest extra inch of legroom and stays conspicuously smaller than the far from roomy 5-series . |
| 25 | So it is that the new churches are bound to be and look different to the old . |
| 26 | So the really important thing that has happened is not that the official forecasts have been wrong , it is that the New Consensus , having been tried in the balance since we joined the ERM and , indeed , during the past 12 years as a whole , has been found wanting . |
| 27 | If there is a change in attitude , then I think it is that the young of Britain are now more outward looking not only towards Europe , but the wider world too . |
| 28 | How true it is that the Labour Party has owed more to Methodism than to Marx . |
| 29 | To go back to ‘ Beowulf : the Monsters and the Critics ’ : if this makes one thing clear it is that the literary quality Tolkien valued above all was the ‘ impression of depth … effect of antiquity … illusion of historical truth and perspective ’ which he found in Beowulf , in the Aeneid , or for that matter in Macbeth , Sir Orfeo , or the Grimms ' Fairy Tales . |
| 30 | Since these writers retain a belief that the capitalist economic system throws up a responsive liberal-democratic and pluralistic political system , these theorists must always first explain why it is that the military-industrial complex has come about . |