Example sentences of "it is [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eurocheques are accepted for fuel , but for landing fees it is strictly cash . |
| 2 | It is simply nonsense . |
| 3 | They do not see falling over as ‘ failure ’ ; it is simply part of the process of learning . |
| 4 | For them , too , it is simply ideology and false consciousness . |
| 5 | Such is the efficacy of propaganda for the global capitalist system that it is rarely capitalism itself that is targetted in such cases , but the symbols of American or European national power . |
| 6 | It has a pH value of 5.5 which means it is slightly acid . |
| 7 | What it is anyway proposal representation are being sent out if anybody down here you 'll go into England if I voted conservative you know , just say for example it would n't be the one past the post it 'll be the one with the most votes |
| 8 | it is generally cost effective ; and |
| 9 | It is generally time consuming involving more sources and therefore more expensive than a reactive search . |
| 10 | There are two disadvantages to this approach ; first , it is enormously time consuming and second , the polygon topology of the input coverage is not preserved , so one can not work back to the initial coverage attributes . |
| 11 | ‘ It is nearly midnight , after all . |
| 12 | It is thus part of the red-pied lowland group of northwest European cattle which also includes the Belgian Red Pied ( or Campine ) and the Polish Red-and-White Lowland . |
| 13 | This interpretation of the structure of power and the role of the state in modern capitalism has been questioned because it is overly determinist and descriptive . |
| 14 | But even though the category is entirely hypothetical , it is nevertheless part of the ‘ table of literature 's possibilities ’ which it is the business of poetics to construct . |
| 15 | In A Room of One 's Own Virginia Woolf argues that even though a person 's gift for writing may be small , it is nevertheless death to hide it . |
| 16 | A hyper-sensitive fellow , such things cause him great and needless upset but to the rest of the band , it is largely water off a duck 's back , and they are dutifully protective of their singer , as are many of the people working around the band . |
| 17 | It is finally time to return to the problem with which we started , to the tension between individual organism and gene as rival candidates for the central role in natural selection . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps … yes , it is most kind of you . ’ |
| 19 | He not only attacks the SEC for being politically grounded , suggesting that the SEC 's limited resources are being focused on those least in favour with the enforcement agency , but by adopting the Stigler ‘ interest theory ’ of regulation , he argues that if one were to look for the supporters of anti-insider dealing provisions , one would find that it is neither society nor the markets , but the SEC itself . |
| 20 | It is surely part of the ambiguity of his person , as well as of his work , whether ‘ priestly ’ or ‘ prophetic ’ . |
| 21 | It is surely time to re-cast the law on employee inventions to tilt the balance away from the employer . |
| 22 | It is decidedly Army in shape . |
| 23 | These cottages were once the abodes of the workers in the famous glove-making industry on which the town first prospered , yet it is probably tourism that is the town 's major attraction now . |
| 24 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
| 25 | There has been no wholly satisfactory explanation of the aetiology , or primary causes , of homosexuality and it is probably multicausal . |
| 26 | If it leaves a brown streak , then it is probably jet . |
| 27 | If , for example , you draw a distinction between two processes and your experiments keep on producing equivocal results , it is probably time to start thinking about the validity of the distinction . |
| 28 | Since the launch of our newsletter , ‘ The Botanics ’ , and the proposed issuing of a newsletter by the Friends of the RBGE , it is probably time to take stock of the total amount of news material which we are now producing , the staff effort involved , the uses to which the information is being put , and the efficiency with which each vehicle reaches its target readership . |
| 29 | In sum , it is probably time to overcome the politics of standardization — ‘ standards are good so long as you adopt mine ’ . |
| 30 | Interviewed on BBC Radio Four 's Today programme , Swales said : ‘ I would love to keep going , but I realise it is probably time for someone else to have a go . |