Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [conj] it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seems obvious when it 's put that way . |
| 2 | But the council now says it 's made Castlemeads safe and it 's told women they must start using it again . |
| 3 | But : ‘ Arbitrary as it seems when only its individual terms are considered , the system becomes coherent when it is seen as a whole set ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 4 | In contrast , an interim dividend only becomes due when it is paid ( Potel v IRC ( 1970 ) 4 TC 658 ) . |
| 5 | But this result becomes understandable once it is appreciated that in order to predict the outcome of a change of context it is necessary to know what associations have been formed , how each affects behaviour , and how susceptible each is to the contextual change . |
| 6 | His outburst , following McKendrick 's denial of the existence of absolute moral principles ( p. 78 ) , impolitely reverses the agreement maxim to emphasise his disagreement and although in his next turn he apologises for his outburst , the impression made by his interruption remains strong because it is accompanied by a violent gesture : The importance of physical gestures as a part of the dramatist 's characterisation is indicated by this episode , for , as Stoppard 's stage directions emphasise , Anderson 's anger is strongly conveyed through the one physical action . |
| 7 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 8 | ‘ We should like to see parents control the amount of time their children spend on computer games , especially if it becomes clear that it is becoming more than a normal hobby , ’ said the PAT deputy general secretary , Jackie Miller . |
| 9 | Some of it is valuable in itself , and some becomes valuable when it is pieced together with other information . |
| 10 | This algorithm , if it deserves the title , becomes valuable if it is used together with one simple assumption : We assume that in almost identical circumstances , almost the same will happen again . |
| 11 | Its value remains constant until it is assigned or input to . |
| 12 | Scrolling through the A2 's patches it soon becomes obvious that it 's crammed full of great sounds , although , as usual , some do need severely sorting out for ouput level , which means that there 's no escaping learning how to program the thing ! |
| 13 | The importance of the distinction between hire-purchase and sale becomes apparent when it is realised that different legal results followed . |
| 14 | However inadequate his predictions proved in the twentieth century , Marx 's appeal remains incomprehensible unless it is recognized that he did have an unsurpassed grasp of nineteenth-century capitalism . |
| 15 | This information can be represented in a tree diagram : Such an analysis becomes generative when it is expressed in the form of rules . |