Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [conj] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , it 's not the cab , Mr Fitzroy , so much as where it 's been . ’ |
| 2 | To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience . |
| 3 | His father 's face was as red as if it had been turned inside out . |
| 4 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 5 | The high velvet shoulder of his doublet smelt musty as though it had been lying in a trunk for centuries . |