Example sentences of "it [be] [pron] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is what the more energetic and motivated of these human resources — her people — have managed to do with the material resources that — to quote from just three current claims , which some might think exaggerated — has triggered an economic revolution , caught the rest of the world unprepared and given birth to a whole new era and a brand-new geography . |
| 2 | But it is none the less interesting as a conclusion to this chapter to draw contrasts , albeit impressionistically , with community policing in West Belfast , for this puts Easton 's community policing into sharp relief . |
| 3 | But it is none the less effective for that , and it would be wrong to see it , as do some liberals , as a superstitious remnant from a blighted past . |
| 4 | Asquith 's capacity to recover quickly from his infatuation , strong though it was , was much greater than she allows , but it is none the less the case that he was thrown off balance for a crucial couple of weeks , the repercussions of which were considerable . |
| 5 | Even though it is the body that offends , it is none the less the mind that is found accountable . |
| 6 | This stark contrast is not invention , but it is none the less unhistorical . |
| 7 | It may be true that the life we destroy is in the main of the lower orders or minute forms , but it is none the less destruction of life for all that , and since ahi sā involves doing no injury to any form of life , it follows that no matter how careful and compassionate and self-restrained a person may be he can not entirely escape committing hi sā . |
| 8 | Although the Kingdom may have its origins in small beginnings in the majority of places , it is none the less capable of surprising growth . |
| 9 | If he was insincere in this , it is none the less ironic that in 1980 , when many within the Church of England were suggesting that it would be a more effective body if it were disestablished , his name should have been reintroduced into the Prayer Book as a martyr for the cause of Establishment . |
| 10 | Although there is no direct evidence on the subject of Richard 's upbringing and education — we do not even know the names of his tutors as we do in his father 's case — it is none the less possible , by using romances and treatises , to reconstruct the type of education which he must have undergone . |
| 11 | It is none the less possible for opponents to pick up the ball , so to speak , when Mrs Thatcher has put it down . |
| 12 | But it is none the less dangerous . |
| 13 | While teachers in further education are not required to have ‘ qualified status ’ , that is to have successfully completed such a course , it is none the less highly desirable that they should have done so . |
| 14 | It is none the less consistent with the purposes of the analysis . |
| 15 | While the Secretary of State 's announcement is good news for Yarrow and the Clyde , it is none the less a disappointment for the other three shipyards that submitted tenders , not least VSEL in Barrow , although the order for the 4.5 inch gun would be welcome . |
| 16 | Even if it eventually transpires that the Lorenz equations do not satisfy the conditions necessary to justify the rigorous analysis ( but see { 33 } ) , it is none the less true that a great many ( infinitely many ) homoclinic orbits do occur in the system though perhaps not distributed densely through all r-intervals . |
| 17 | Mind belongs to a genus wholly superior to sense as man is to woman ; unblemished and purged … it is itself the most religious of sacrifices and its whole being is highly pleasing to God . |
| 18 | The ‘ image ’ of C. S. Lewis , which many were to find rebarbative , was not , as they imagined , stage-managed or rehearsed , but it was none the less odd for that . |
| 19 | While criticized by many on the grounds that it had few ‘ teeth ’ and represented a compromise between the DoE and all other departments ( notably those of Agriculture and of Transport ) , it was none the less a major achievement . |
| 20 | It was none the less a moment of grave concern to unbelievers of any reliable militancy . |
| 21 | Granting evils in the slave trade and colonial slavery it was none the less argued that government could more easily influence planters and traders through better regulation than they could control the situation on the West African coast . |
| 22 | It was well-staged and well-sung ; and even if one had to put up with such seed pearls of wisdom as ‘ Beauty is in a lover 's eyes ’ , it was none the less a serious attempt to deal with the implications of the legend . |
| 23 | It is important to remember that however misguided , selfish or short-sighted this opposition to change may seem , it was none the less sincere . |
| 24 | When it came , there was nothing at all ominous in the reason for Christian 's unexpected visit … but it was none the less a bombshell . |