Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [prep] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The witness 's mere statement that his answer might have this effect is not sufficient , although it is on oath and even if there is no doubt concerning his bona fides . |
| 2 | Or it would be approximately ten shillings for a day because we had to work Saturday morning , although it was at Newark and got to travel twenty |
| 3 | It 's not really made it clear that it 's for bookings and reservations as well . |
| 4 | The only problem is that it 's at Cannock and not somewhere exotic in Europe . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The one I ca n't wait for is the European Cup on April 16–20 , ’ says the talented teenager , quipping : ‘ The only problem is that it 's at Cannock and not somewhere exotic in Europe ! ’ |
| 6 | Even that it 's past midnight and I must go home now , although I 'm not a bit tired . |
| 7 | It 's very interesting that it 's in Sussex and East Kent that , just in the border there , that some of the most exotic Puritan names that you sometimes hear about , Praise God Bare Bones and Deliverance Smith and these kind of weird names , which are often thought of as typically Puritan , in fact are very narrowly defined to a geographical area , and in time . |
| 8 | Ask anyone about vitamin C and they will be able to tell you that it is found in oranges — but would they also know that it is in melons and tomatoes ? |
| 9 | There 's an ecumenical consensus nowadays surely that it is by faith and baptism that one is made a Christian or becomes a Christian and we 've also inherited , many of us , another rite , with its origins in the New Testament , valuable in the making of a christian and the three strands in confirmation set out in the report before us would certainly be owned by all of us . |
| 10 | when we got the letters back from the Secretary of State one of his excuses if you like , for imposing such a savage tax was that it was save fuel and help the environment . |
| 11 | thought that it was about privatisation or opting out of the health service , because the Labour party was putting about pamphlets saying such things as ’ Now the Government is forcing our hospitals to opt out of the NHS . ’ |
| 12 | It was everything Sam had ever wanted — except that it was in Somerset and not in Tuscany . ’ |
| 13 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 14 | Cody maintained that it was in tension and had provided a wire . |
| 15 | She stayed on at the hotel and distracted him and then the next day other people got to him and explained that Parkinson was really a nice guy and that it was like painting and . |
| 16 | Generally , the effect on triglyceride metabolism of excellent diabetic control is more profound than it is on cholesterol and LDL . |
| 17 | The problem is worse in some areas than it is in others but , as Karan and Iijima ( 1985 ) point out , soil erosion is particularly acute where steep slopes are cultivated without terracing . |
| 18 | Remember that some criteria are more applicable to certain categories of rug than to others ; for example , the fineness of the knotting is more critical in workshop rugs than it is in village or nomadic items . |
| 19 | The Minister will probably claim that the decline in the number of smokers is greater in this country than it is in Italy and in France . |
| 20 | The political culture in Scotland is much more confrontational on the constitutional issue than it is in Wales and the feelings run much deeper . |
| 21 | It has been argued that differentiation in refugia is less marked in trees than it is in insects or birds , because of their different life spans , but such theory provides an explanation for the now sympatric occurrence of 12 species of Eschweilera ( Lecythidaceae ) near Manaus . |
| 22 | After a decade of assiduous cultural promotion , he charges , France is less sure of itself , of its values and heritage , than it was before Lang and Mitterrand began . |
| 23 | If so , it is certain that the quality of the professional advice will not be any better in Scotland than it was in England and Wales . |
| 24 | We 've got a big , great big polythene bag and it 's with sweets and chocolates |
| 25 | across the bottom of your eardrum , and it 's like standing and you 're , |
| 26 | He has built a new cowshed in the last year , and it is of brick and Cotswold stone — in keeping with the existing buildings . |
| 27 | Love is a sort of narcotic in its effect , and it is like drunkenness or the rapture of the deep that sea-divers write about ; but there are many other kinds of love , though not exactly the same but as brilliant and more lasting . |
| 28 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 29 | It was effectively a semi final as the two group leaders go straight to the final , and it was between England and Spain all the way . |
| 30 | I was at university and it was in recess and we were having a social evening in a village hall and I was staying with a friend . |