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

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1 Perhaps it 's sufficient to say that Diana , herself a Romanian , was deeply shocked and did not realise that children were living in such awful conditions in her own country .
2 Perhaps it 's fair to say that magic was more important to Rupert than science .
3 I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it .
4 Now I 'm a governor of two schools and from this perspective in particular , I 'm very pleased to see that as a result of the legacy of previous Conservative administration and the generous S S A proposals for this year , that the Conservative group have been able to put forward a budget which enables schools budgets to be increased fully for demography and inflation and certainly I know that was a great worry this year in many of our schools that that might not be possible so it 's good to see that it is possible .
5 So it 's comforting to know that one word is all you need specify in order to meet the new standards : Pilkinsulation .
6 You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now .
7 So it 's nice to know whether people are volunteers or , or conscripts .
8 So it 's important to notice that in many species and certainly in ours , although males need not as you say make any contribution apart from their genes in principle , in fact males are heavy investors in offspring , albeit indirectly , so that must be important must n't it and that must
9 Anyway it 's nice to know that no time has been wasted though I do n't imagine there will be much energy left for the Finer Things .
10 Still it 's nice to know that there is a way of achieving 100% industry compatibility and serial mice are very cheap at the moment .
11 But now it 's all divorce and even the married ones carry on in a very odd way .
12 To see them together now it 's hard to believe that less than six months ago Tanya ’ Pret chen ska ’ from Russia thought of giving up her baby .
13 Now it 's hard to believe that half a century ago piped water , sewerage and bathrooms complete with toilet and bath were luxuries many did n't have .
14 Well it 's better to feel than never have felt at all is n't it ?
15 Well it 's best to use that on the
16 Right it 's all play and it 's your turn to draw .
17 I 've always started with LM1 since I ca n't see how it 's possible to perceive whether a patient would benefit from beginning somewhere else .
18 There are songs of his where , when you start playing solos , sometimes it 's hard to stop because you get into this …
19 Having said that , my playing never sinks below a certain standard , although sometimes it 's hard to tell if you 're actually improving , because you 're so close to it .
20 But when times are hard , when you 're upset by things that er are wrong with patients or by things that have happened to you , then it 's nice to know that God 's always there for you .
21 You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know .
22 And the change now means that if a married woman , it does n't , as I say , it does n't affect single women , if a married woman now has n't earned income using all her allowances , so she does n't work has n't worked , never qualified for a pension , or does work but does n't earn more than that , and the couple have got investment income then it 's sensible to switch that into the wife 's name to give her income to use up her allowances .
23 If your bike is second-hand , or has n't been used for a while , then it 's important to check that it 's safe to ride .
24 There are days when it 's best to pretend that the children are someone else 's
25 There are days when it 's best to pretend that the children belong to someone else and yesterday was one of them .
26 And so , through playing his stuff so many times , hearing him play it on record and on bootlegs and actually hearing him sing live — once — it 's got to the point where it 's hard to say whether this is my natural voice or if it 's something I learned .
27 Without going over all the ground again it 's necessary to state that Siporax is a sintered glass material with a massive external and internal area for bacteria and therefore a remarkably small quantity should be able to filter a vast pond .
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