Example sentences of "[verb] it 's [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 With talk of a series of stand alone shops it 's hard to believe that the idea is n't to rival Marks .
2 In this learning process it 's acceptable to remember that we are all imperfect .
3 Especially if , mind you , he might not be able to do anything , it 's like I say you you 've got your hot water and it 's probably a job he can do better in the week , one night as long as he says it 's safe to use and you 're not gon na blow the tank up on yourself !
4 She says it 's wrong to say that only Mrs Maxwell lost her pension .
5 ‘ Young people in the Third World are being told it 's wonderful to smoke and they do n't know the problems it 's causing . ’
6 erm I know it 's easy to say but I was prepared to anyone says which is obviously you know what I 'd be prepared to do
7 I know it 's hard to believe but I think it is actually possible .
8 ‘ I know it 's hard to believe when you see us now , but we were ail at it .
9 ‘ On average I suppose it 's fair to say that they are down here once every three months so we know exactly what they want and how to give it to them . ’
10 The local jobless look on knowing it 's unwise to protest as the Tunisians despatch fish .
11 I do n't think it 's necessary to portray and try and show the poverty and primitiveness , my emphasis was on the close-knit family units and the craft of these people . ’
12 I do n't think it 's possible to try and keep it exactly as it used to be , nor do I think you 'd want to .
13 I do n't think it 's reasonable to expect that you will ever get rid of jealousy or fear or anxiety .
14 Cos I mean it 's easy to think cos Mao , we know he 's a communist or whatever
15 Well I think it 's reasonable to say as well it was one that was deserved was n't it ?
16 benefits , not knowing where to find out about benefits , and I think it 's right to say that benefits agency staff are there to give information and there is a
17 Er , overall I think it 's right to say that we 're disappointed by these results but we 're not downhearted .
18 In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years .
19 In fact I think it 's true to say that when the forty six hectare figure wa was agreed , it was known that the coal field was coming and er I think time has shown has n't brought anything like the number of jobs or economic
20 I think it 's true to say that the design responsible company , Deutsch Aerospace erm has discovered that er there 's a lot more software in this system than they had originally imagined and the , their sub contractors of course , they 've had to er write various parts of that for them and erm putting together the four elements of the programme has been a lot more complex than anyone imagined .
21 I think it 's true to say that we give it to them and we also drink it ourselves .
22 I think it 's true to say as well , is n't it , Mr Treasurer , that there 's some money ticket money still to come .
23 Erm so I think it 's important to realize as I said before with er with you know with the ma mah-jongg or whatever and opium smoking , you know that he 's , it 's not just a political struggle that he 's
24 There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible
25 I think it 's important to understand that all my work is about demystification — both of the self and of the medical and family discourses which defined me for much of my life .
26 I 'm rather advertising this because I think it 's important to understand that although , and I 'm sure you know , that there 's this constant war really between , it was n't of course a physical war , but certainly tension , and difficulty between the university and the city .
27 I think it 's exciting to think that on the rare occasion we feature a non farming issue , we discover what a group of internationalists our readers are , and how in touch you are with current affairs .
28 I think it 's fair to say that the only significant report from the Operations Information Officer during this tour has been the dates of the first flights bringing Swedish holidaymakers to Larnaca .
29 Yes , it costs a lot of money , but I think it 's fair to say that that cost is within reach of the serious working player , and it could well be the answer for aspiring rock guitarists who need ‘ that ’ sound .
30 But I think it 's fair to say that the changes in the n nine , early nineteen eighties particularly those which gave the unions a predominant position in choosing the leader , were not of the unions ' making , certainly not of the G M B's making , as I know from personal experience at the time .
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