Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right — I know I 'm exaggerating , but frankly it seems so trivial that it 's almost become a political version of the World Cup . |
| 2 | The Institute says that it is now receiving a steady stream of IVA notifications every month , a phenomenon which , until the recession started , was extremely rare . |
| 3 | I am delighted that it is now providing a three-day project at Sir Thomas Picton 's school in Haverfordwest , around its production of Don Pasquale . |
| 4 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota says that it is now offering a workstation version of its UniChem molecular modelling program written for its supercomputers : the new version is available on Silicon Graphics Inc workstations and a version for other Unix workstations will be offered later this year ; prices start at $45,000 , compared with $130,000 on a supercomputer . |
| 5 | I will contend rather that the judgement that it is there has a necessary effect upon how we are inclined to act . |
| 6 | Recently , it installed an earth station for satellite communications in St Petersburg , and it 's also establishing a joint venture there for the provision of international telecommunications services . |
| 7 | And it 's always meant a notoriously steep learning curve . |
| 8 | Some of our members have lost their consolidated rate and it 's now become a bit of a running sore on the pay negotiations from last year , it needs to be sorted out , if confidence is to remain in last year 's pay , pay deal . |
| 9 | Now we have the first royal re-marriage and it is barely raising a ripple . |
| 10 | Morning coffee and afternoon tea are served here , together with light snacks , and it is already proving a popular meeting place for the ladies of St John 's Wood . |
| 11 | Er and it is actually doing a useful job . |
| 12 | Levels of investment are important to economic growth , and it is often considered a ‘ good thing ’ to stimulate growth by inducing a higher level of investment . |
| 13 | Not all people who decide to work from home will be lucky enough to have a ready-made office space and they will need to make changes in their accommodation , even if it is only finding a place to keep the computer and the phone . |
| 14 | After a while , if undisturbed , the Aplysia puts its siphon out again , and if it is then prodded a second time , it will show the same withdrawal reflex . |
| 15 | Just the same as , see there 's so many out of work the amount of people that are going for the jobs , there 's so many of them they erm they 're all got some sort of experience , even if it 's just doing a a week . |
| 16 | But it is actually called a perfect octave as well . |
| 17 | But it 's nice having an audience and it gets your adrenalin going as well |
| 18 | No easy task , but it 's already proving a great success , as Richard Barnett reports : |
| 19 | ( film of ambulance ; male voice over ) ‘ … it 's nice transport — even sleeps two … but it 's never saved a life on its own ! |
| 20 | The council will balance its budget this year but it 's only getting an increase of 6.5 per cent and it needs 8 per cent . |
| 21 | But it 's now facing a hostile takeover bid by a Suffolk based-brewery , Greene King . |
| 22 | Failure to clear it can only add to the guilt because it is also robbing a relationship the transparency that it lives on . |
| 23 | I stress this folk opera strength in Grimes , because it is usually considered an example of the doom of the individual , faced by the oppression of society . |
| 24 | But if the being of an individual woman is sufficiently strong and well-developed , then , knowing that light to be there deep within her , she can allow it to permeate the whole of her presence , refining and changing her very substance rather as a lamp when it is lit makes an apparently opaque glass shade appear translucent . |