Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This statement might be misunderstood by readers to imply that unsafe sex elsewhere is somehow less risky than it is in London . |
| 2 | The difference is that , with the invention of new techniques , the gap between postulating an entity and identifying it physically is much shorter than it was in Mendel 's case . |
| 3 | We ran out of water and some other friends ran out of water and we had to help each other and we were getting stuck in the sand and the heat was very high because it was in August and it was around noon time , so erm some people actually turned back erm they could n't continue , unfortunately ; they are friends of ours . |
| 4 | Although commonly known as the Founder 's Jewel , it is doubtful whether it was in fact bequeathed to the College by William of Wykeham . |
| 5 | His lips pressed against her hair , ran across the brow , all damp as it was with perspiration . |
| 6 | Unemployment is rising in every European country except in Spain , but there it is twice as high as it is in Britain . |
| 7 | There will not be much re-nationalisation , for example , and the top rate of tax will not be as high as it was under Mr Healey ( although it will start much lower down the scale ) . |
| 8 | The atmosphere was as lively as it was at Church House itself . |
| 9 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 10 | Occasionally this can be interesting as it is in Bintley 's Consort Lessons ( 1984 ) . |
| 11 | But this full equilibrium position , at C , is inferior to the one at which inflation is zero and unemployment is equal to its natural rate , point B. This is clear from the fact that both have the same unemployment rate , but point C has a higher inflation rate ; it is also indicated by the fact that at point C the popularity of the government is lower than it is at point B. We therefore have the odd result that the position which is optimal , point B , is not feasible , whereas the position that is feasible is sub-optimal . |
| 12 | Identifying this money will be impossible once it 's in circulation . ’ |
| 13 | Parents generally worry less about the sexual behaviour of their sons , and teaching boys about sex and contraception is sometimes considered less crucial than it is for girls . |
| 14 | But even an issue such as camping can become rather central if it is of importance to one partner . |
| 15 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 16 | But in practice , modern Earthly life is a protege of water , as much as it is of carbon . |
| 17 | Uncertainty is the enemy of marketers as much as it is of City markets . |
| 18 | This matters because recent discussion shows Weber 's conception of class ( Wright , 1985 ) to be determined by production just as much as it is by Marx , but that Weber is concerned with consequences in terms of market exchanges , whereas Marx focuses on exploitation . |
| 19 | Enthusiasm in other Eastern European parliaments is waning too , but not as much as it is in Poland because Poland 's politics is even more fragmented than that of other countries . |
| 20 | She was lucky , she realised , that her financial situation remained much as it was in Donald 's life time . |
| 21 | Neither can the student unrest in Germany be said to have been as serious as it was in France . |
| 22 | He enjoyed it , dangerous though it was for foreigners , but after the fall of Robespierre he had deemed it advisable to leave again . |
| 23 | There is no space here , central though it is to Callinicos ' argument as a whole , to do other than note how this perspective is then deployed not only to counter poststructuralism but also significantly to modify the position of its main critic , Habermas . |
| 24 | Post-war America was in favour of a united Europe to stand more firmly against the Soviet Union , and successive American administrations grew irritable with the Europeans for failing to believe that unity in Europe could be as simple as it was in America . |
| 25 | A misrepresentation by the accused that the law was such and such when it was in fact different , and by that misrepresentation he obtained property , will lead to a conviction of obtaining property by deception . |
| 26 | Such a time seems happier than it was in recollection , for anxiety , its chief torment , is over . |
| 27 | Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now . |
| 28 | Furnished as it was in Cook 's time it 's now a museum containing many artefacts connected with Cook and his voyages . |
| 29 | She did n't want her relationship with her chief to become any closer than it was at present . |
| 30 | Such material is not helpful if it is on sheets that have become dirty or faded ; shortages of text material are disadvantageous for all pupils , but especially so for pupils with poor vision . |