Example sentences of "it is [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xavier Mellery , the painter of the nuns , was described in the catalogue as " creating a light which is the negation of that which envelops our immediate visual experience of things ; it is rather the Interior light of your mind … " |
| 2 | It is rather the inner emptiness or ignorance which the spate of words attempts to conceal . |
| 3 | It is rather the visible sign of underlying defensiveness and uncertainty . |
| 4 | What renders science distinctive , then , is not so much the instruments that are played , for crude variants of these can be found wherever we look ; nor even the particular tune , for everyone plays brief snatches of this from time to time ; it is rather the sustained and collaborative elaboration of this particular melody in preference to all the others one might play . |
| 5 | It is however the subtler aspects of weight , control and role which " colour " the process , to the extent where one case is so different from another that their common origins are all but lost . |
| 6 | It is however the final formal appearance of the team who have been representing North Yorkshire County Council , and I would n't want this opportunity to slip without thanking them all , Mr , Mrs , and all of the others in their team who have spoken on behalf of the Council . |
| 7 | Small in comparison to major fairs such as Basel , it is however the leading Asian fair and this year included ninety-one galleries of which fifty-nine were from outside Japan ( nine less foreign galleries than in 1992 ) . |
| 8 | It is simply the factual equivalent of some of the fictional tales on sale to children today . |
| 9 | In a world so defined , peacefulness does not require suppression of individuality and renunciation of autonomy ; it is simply the only sensible way for people to behave , and it has , for Semai , become a crucial part of a definition of self and a positive goal in its own right . |
| 10 | Although I have said ‘ remove the fish to an isolation tank ’ , there is no reason to believe the disease is contagious to other inmates , it is simply the safest way to effect a tentative course of treatments without stressing your other fish . |
| 11 | Genuine , living devotion , Philothea , presupposes the love of God , and thus it is simply the true love of God . |
| 12 | It is simply the salient feature of their lives and so , quite predictably , occupies a lot of their time , absorbs a lot of their interest and provides a lot of their ambitions . |
| 13 | Parisians remain unconvinced that the project will be approved , especially since it is not the only idea on the drawing board . |
| 14 | For an unintelligible speaker to learn to speak intelligibly , it may not be the best training , and certainly it is not the only training , to send him to the pulpit of Boston parish church . |
| 15 | While West Germany 's objections are the most serious , it is not the only member cutting up rough in the final stages of the monopoly and competition edict . |
| 16 | It is not the only gate . ’ |
| 17 | But it is not the only one , nor is it always the best . |
| 18 | But it is not the only thing that is important . |
| 19 | It is not the only way to decide if the relationship between two variables depends upon the value of a third . |
| 20 | Such erosion is also contributing to accelerated sedimentation in reservoirs but it is not the only cause , as Tejwani ( 1987b ) has discussed in relation to reservoirs in the Indian Himalaya . |
| 21 | But it is not the only approach by which the message is put over . |
| 22 | Some of this land is not its responsibility , for while it is by far the biggest operator in the china-clay industry it is not the only one , and there are mica dams , abandoned pits and spoil tips where neither the writ nor the sheep of Derek Owen run . |
| 23 | This is a basic , though subtle , source of doubt , but it is not the only one . |
| 24 | It is not the only message capable of reaching them . |
| 25 | It is not the only roof over his head — in fact he has never lived in it . |
| 26 | But while the family may still be the supreme focus of privatisation , it is not the only one . |
| 27 | The mystery therefore , remains , but it is not the only mystery attached to the Charfield disaster , indeed the one which most concerns us in the context of the strange and uncanny is the riddle of the unclaimed bodies . |
| 28 | But , it is not the only way and it is a most precarious way . |
| 29 | But it is not the only version . |
| 30 | Yet it is not the only abundance which confronts him . |