Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.

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1 We 're a school choir — if there are many youth choirs , who can draw from several schools around the area there then the chances of our getting anywhere are slim but if it 's large school choirs then I think we probably do stand a fair chance .
2 They are warm and but it 's colour I do n't know whether I perhaps if I saw cream again this year I might buy it but erm I 'm not sure that I want to when this deep orangy colour .
3 Through exposure to the rich variety of skills , attitudes , gifts , life- and workstyles found in ordinary people , children can be shown that all individuals are unique and that it is their differences ( rather than their similarities ) which are of value to society .
4 This is used mainly where tantrums are severe and where it is felt that stopping them altogether is too big a first step .
5 If you lifted a large laundry basket think about the size of a laundry basket , think about where the hands would go then down , lift it up and if it 's full of laundry then it 's obviously going to be heavier than if it was empty but that 's the size .
6 ‘ Make love not war ’ is held to be meaningless except that it is a convenient mutual treaty by which humanity favours co-operation and survival , rather than dangerous destruction .
7 If they said to us we 're not going to insure you because you have black people staying people staying it would be illegal but because it 's poor people they can dictate to us .
8 In the past a private sector proposal had to demonstrate that funding costs would be less than if it was carried out by the Government .
9 Teachers who feel threatened by the scheme consider that it should not be compulsory and that it is not a source of motivation for them .
10 Because women homeworkers ' wages tended to be small and because it is not clear either how many ‘ hard cases ’ there were , or how large the homeworking sector was , historians have tended to regard this area of women 's employment as being of slight importance .
11 But those three months are something Leslie will always be thankful for as it was in France that they diagnosed the toxoplasmosis so early .
12 If she 's not in the district that will be difficult but if it is possible if she 's in the district we order that she attends at transfer sessions the outgoing licensee .
13 The management should be aware that once it is known that a business is for sale , it is likely that it will be bought by someone , if not themselves .
14 Taking the Ernst functions as ( 13.3 ) or ( 13.4 ) , it can be shown that the boundary conditions described in Section 7.2 can only be satisfied if and It is then convenient to transform the null coordinates such that and .
15 God 's grace can be as much misused when it is wrongly applied to those who are oversensitive as when it is completely forgotten by those who are insensitive .
16 Addressing the opening session , acting head of state Lt.-Col. Amadou Toumani Touré , who was elected chair of the conference , said that national reconciliation and tolerance were imperative and that it was the conference 's task to build unity and security .
17 He said the Red Cross was being petty and that it was clear that he was not driving a Red Cross vehicle .
18 However , the Senate foreign relations committee on Sept. 9 voted against the treaty , after a week of hearings at which most speakers backed the bases , on the grounds that the end of the Cold War meant that US military bases in the Philippines were redundant and that it was a " one-sided , unequal agreement " .
19 If I were reasonably satisfied that , other things being equal , substantially fewer persons would be murdered if the death penalty were available than if it were not , I should have opposed its abolition and would support its restoration .
20 She held firm because she knew that the road to compromise was without signposts , that the possibilities for getting lost were manifold and that it was paved with flawed imitations of the truth .
21 This issue will be discussed first in this section because it is controversial and because it is also related to the issues of salinisation and soil erosion which will be examined below .
22 The pressure gradient needed to produce a given flow rate is much larger when the flow is turbulent than when it is laminar ( Fig. 2.11 ) .
23 The water level is lower than when it was in use but the level is sufficient to give reflections and provide an impression of what it was like .
24 Well I sometimes do when , er , if , I have a tendency when it 's , when it 's right to praise instantly when it 's right and when it 's wrong .
25 and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea .
26 If such information was not attended to in the judgment phase then it is possible that when it is seen in the recognition phase it will be noticed for the first time .
27 As with any other policy the insurers will commonly require exclusions against the following : ( 1 ) The adequacy of insurance arrangements The view of the insurers is that it should be for the purchaser to determine whether existing insurance cover for the business is adequate and if it is not to increase the level of cover with effect from completion .
28 If one person 's on duty , you would a situation where really that was a bit of risk quite often , and er , it 's not an acceptable thing but er , I totally agree we need to agree very carefully if one 's wise to whether the initial staffing is adequate or whether it is case a of people not having
29 The reason they would not otherwise do so becomes apparent from the biographical sources , from which it is clear that though it was possible to obtain mevleviyets from these medreses , men who did so tended not to rise much higher but to spend the rest of their lives in relatively low-ranking mevleviyets .
30 Make sure that the story you have for them is interesting and if it is merely constituency information , explain that you are providing it for background briefing and that you are not expecting them to publish it .
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