Example sentences of "it is [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is since the 1950s that the expansion in education has really accelerated , with a resulting boost to literacy rates . |
| 2 | So it is with the financial servant and its industrial master . |
| 3 | It is with the greatest possible pleasure that I write to you once more , this time to confirm that your Company 's independence has been preserved after a battle which has lasted over nine months . |
| 4 | It is with the greatest pleasure that I wish to throw a large bouquet in their direction . |
| 5 | Predictably , while the government with one hand is distorting their expenditure and creating unnecessary expense , it is with the other reducing the discretion available to councils to raise their own resources . |
| 6 | You know how it is with the two |
| 7 | Just how consistent it is with the prevailing relationship of disabled people to our able-bodied society comes clear when you look at some of the many questions which can be raised . |
| 8 | It is with the latter sort of crime fiction that those of us who enjoy writing comedy will have most to do . |
| 9 | Thus it is with the apparent conflict between religion and science . |
| 10 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 11 | The bare infinitive expresses a possibility which was not realized in this use and is therefore conceived in the same way as it is with the modal auxiliaries , as a mere potential , except for the fact that no particular form of potentiality is attributed to it . |
| 12 | It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning : when one encounters them , one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness . |
| 13 | And it is with the statistical evaluation of leys that there is most controversy and where much work still needs doing . |
| 14 | So far only the pulsed dye laser produces parameters that approach the theoretical ideal , and even then it is at the lower limit of the ideal pulse duration ; Tan et al have shown that this laser can successfully treat children of any age with a negligible chance of scarring , and our experiences confirm their findings . |
| 15 | It is at the sentencing stage where formal strategies are most often to be found . |
| 16 | For this session the Celebration room has to be the sacred place it is at the integrated session . |
| 17 | This zone of farms is called the marginal fringe because it is at the upper margin for agriculture . |
| 18 | Operated by the Sylvan Group , it is at the Tullygoonian Industrial Estate . |
| 19 | The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought . |
| 20 | Above all , it is at the European level that expanding aid programmes could be devised to stimulate a widening of trade and recovery in the south and east . |
| 21 | Learning takes place through successive cycles of assimilation and accommodation ; and it is at the accommodative phase that this clearer vision is needed . |
| 22 | It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ? |
| 23 | It is , it is , yes , is it , it is at the present time , but it is it is growing . |
| 24 | It might make sense to the financial director faced with a demand which far outweighs supply ; after all , this recycling of other houses ' wines is perfectly legal , but it is at the same time deliberately hoodwinking the public . |
| 25 | As the disturbance goes more deeply into the organism from the physical to the emotional plane , from the emotional to the mental and finally to the spiritual , it is at the same time becoming higher up in the organism as it is pictured diagrammatically in Figure 3 . |
| 26 | It is at the same time hovering between styles . |
| 27 | That she is so is essentially an untruth , but it is at the same time a socially undeniable fact , even today , although it was probably a more widespread one 20 odd years ago . |
| 28 | It is an irony that as the government makes great claims about its job creation record for West Belfast it is at the same time in the process of running down some major sources of employment in the area , most notably the Royal Victoria Hospital . |
| 29 | It is at the same time stressed , however , that it is not the " true function of literature " to engage with the contemporary " social problem " . |
| 30 | Mr Salmond said : ‘ I find it quite incredible that on the day this bungling Government is desperately trying to scramble out of a hole on pit closures , it is at the same time drilling itself into a well on oil jobs . |