Example sentences of "[adv] it is [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is generally observed that most civil servants whatever country they come from make sure that they er give each other pay rises and I know it happens in this country the Civil Service pay pays quite well and it 's certainly a key erm feature in er pay structure in developing countries that if your , if you work for the government you are very very well paid , like government wages can be , you know , four , five , six , ten , twenty times |
| 2 | Traditionally , there are restrictions on using " I " : some teachers forbid it , as an example of inelegant intrusion by the author ( though nowadays it is generally thought permissible to use " I " occasionally , to emphasise a point which you wish to show is personal rather than general ) . |
| 3 | It says it has n't passed on the cost of those decreasing hardware margins to customers via higher software and services cost , rather it is simply targeting those areas where customers are going to spend more of their money . |
| 4 | Ha ha , it 's your au — fr … parents ' friend , Janice , Gav beamed , radiating unrepentant guilt ; came round here the other day looking for you we got talking went for a curry had a few drinks ended up back here one thing led to another know how it is always liked older women they 're more experienced know what I mean arf arf anyway spent an extremely enjoyable New Year at her place apart from the usual visit to my folk 's of course oh by the way she 's coming round here tonight I 'm cooking lasagne can you swap rooms seeing Norris wo n't be back until tomorrow it 's just I did n't expect you back until then either , that okay ? |
| 5 | I think the most commonsense response to this objection is as follows : whatever may be the theoretical case about competing interpretations of low-level code in the machine , we need to remind ourselves that , if this machine is ‘ paying tax refunds ’ , as opposed to ‘ directing missiles ’ , then it is actually printing large rolls of cheques at its peripheral devices . |
| 6 | Yet it is fast becoming conventional wisdom about the liberal markets of America , Britain , Canada and Australia , both at home and abroad in their less financially liberal rivals , such as Germany , Japan and France . |
| 7 | Yet it is still staging two new productions out of five , Britten 's Peter Grimes and Tchaikovsky 's The Queen of Spades . |
| 8 | As the housing is not pitted I cleaned it and replaced the seal , however it is still leaking some oil . |
| 9 | If you remember I used the example of agriculture , right , where it is generally observed that agricultural products have a price inelastic demand , okay . |
| 10 | However , nowhere in the world ( and Gewürztraminer is widely grown ) does it reach such dizzy heights as in Alsace , where it is generally vinified dry , the rosy-skinned grape producing dark- hued white wines packed with alcohol . |
| 11 | Therefore it is best labelled democratic feminist socialism . |