Example sentences of "is it [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is the case why is it that the order relating to insurance and building society er building societies , specifically makes the point that the auditor must be working erm in his capacity as such whereas the orders on banking and financial services er it may be implicit the er the auditor is working er in his or her capacity as such er but it is not explicitly stated because the phraseology is different . |
| 2 | But the smaller the jump the less likely death is , and the more likely is it that the jump will result in improvement . |
| 3 | is it , is it that the insurance |
| 4 | How is it that the experience will ever end ? |
| 5 | Indeed it is probably true to say , as a rough generalization , that the larger the concern , and the larger the number of people involved or affected , the less likely is it that the concern or interest will be represented accurately , or at all , within an interest-group system . |
| 6 | But why is it that the predicate qualifier construction can carry both meanings while the clausal construction fits only the " unacquainted " version ? |
| 7 | How is it that the majority of people are given such a highly distorted overall picture of the nature and incidence of sexual violence ? |
| 8 | Why is it that the Government promised higher standards of education in 1979 , 1983 and 1987 but the results of 13 years in office have been lower standards of education ? |
| 9 | Why is it that the Government do not want to debate what is happening in Renfrewshire ? |
| 10 | Finally , if the Prime Minister says , as he rightly does , that one of the centrepieces of reshaping the United Nations so that it can cope with the new challenges to world peace is to strengthen the United Nations ' peacekeeping capacity , why is it that the Government are , I am told , $8 million in arrears with their dues towards United Nations ' peacekeeping ? |
| 11 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 12 | And then he told me a hilarious story about the way in which the chairman of the committee , I 'm not sure quite what particular branch in the world he 'd come from but he was looking at the figures , I suppose it was an accountant looking at the , the figures saying now why is it that the amount spent on district nurses has gone up ? |
| 13 | How is it that the demand for an independent Sikh state , once seen as the beginning of a threat to the unity of India , suddenly looks like an idea whose time has gone ? |
| 14 | Why is it that the Association does not enlist the services of former Wimbledon Champion , Virginia Wade , or Wimbledon singles semi-finalist , Roger Taylor not as paid employees , but as committee members helping to set out strategic plans for the future ? |
| 15 | I mean is it that the rent reduction interest rate reduction is not working and in order for the peasant to get enough for themselves , they needed to go further ? |
| 16 | Now th he was saying that , it 's being argued here that , that very seldom is it that the punishment exceeded the crime , that they 're able to assess , look at the behaviour of the people in power before the movement er gathered pace and to , to , to assess how they er they were , how sort of humane and so on and , and by saying that depending on how you , you , you did before hand , you w you now your punishment , it will , will be a administered accordingly which is an interesting concept , I 'm not sure quite how accurate these assessments could 've been , I think really when things get going it 's er really very difficult to stop them . |
| 17 | In terms of Fig. 10–5 , if is established , how is it that the number of workers recorded as unemployed is measured between points 2 and 4 rather than the real wage falling so that labour market equilibrium is established at Trade union power is an obvious explanation and is explored further in the context of coalitions below . |
| 18 | But why is it that the League 's longest-serving manager , the fan-bashing , clown-chasing old iconoclast at Nottingham Forest , has one of the best-behaved teams ? |
| 19 | After all , what sort of conspiracy is it when the victim has to browbeat his supposed aggressors into taking part ? |
| 20 | Is it when the purchaser puts his money in or is that merely an offer which the machine accepts ? |
| 21 | And then , I thought well I gosh this caravan is n't is it because the salt had gone ? |