Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean that all pensioners live in poverty , but the effect of age discrimination is to depress the whole of this group 's income and it is only those with access to higher incomes through , for example , substantial occupational pensions , who are able to cushion themselves against the economic consequences . |
| 2 | The wild piping creature that haunts the woods is hoisted up by its heels on the butcher 's hook and it 's just dead goatmeat ready for dissection . |
| 3 | The danger was a communist enclave existing within the heart of South Africa : ‘ We might hate South Africa 's policies but it is tremendously important to the west . ’ |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I can tell a smoker 's hair since it is more dull and lacks the sheen of a non-smoker . |
| 5 | We must build our Darcy 's Utopia before it is too late . |
| 6 | There is no doubt in Sir Adrian 's mind that it is more demanding today being a top executive than it used to be . |
| 7 | The ears usually only flatten onto the back of the horse 's neck when it is all too late , and the horse is already lunging at its opponent with its teeth bared ! |
| 8 | So intense is the chameleon 's concentration that it is quite unaware of imminent danger . |
| 9 | It 's impossible to get the stench out of one 's clothing until it is thoroughly washed . |
| 10 | Knives are now a standard part of the criminal 's equipment and it is very difficult for us to defend ourselves without going beyond the law , but there are ways — as you will see later . |
| 11 | It is easy to understand Bilbo 's pity but it is still true that Gollum deserved death for all the wrong he did , but Frodo must remember that it would be unfair to Gollum as there are others who also deserve death . |
| 12 | Paradoxically , one of the biggest , says Thomas Davenport , a management consultant with Ernst & Young and one of the earliest advocates of re-engineering , is a company 's existing computer system , which can be so complex and yet so central to the firm 's business that it is too expensive and too risky to scrap entirely ( though not always — see box ) . |
| 13 | Gerry Walker from AFF told last week 's conference that it is very difficult for local and central government to monitor all waters continuously . |
| 14 | A painter whose pictures record the atrocities of the past , he acts as his uncle 's conscience and it is partly due to him that Singer — at the height of his spivvy , flashy success - throws himself into a Hampstead pond . |
| 15 | You can hardly expect people to make a journey of six hours round trip for an afternoon 's event unless it is very special . |
| 16 | But whatever I do ( and I do plenty ) I can not change Rainbow 's belief that it is as blessed to give as to receive . |
| 17 | Reed warblers are no more likely to eject a model cuckoo 's egg when it is simply added to those already in the nest than they are when a substitution is carried out . |
| 18 | So it must have been a grown person 's skull but it 's too small and light for an adult male , so it must have been a woman . |
| 19 | Original sin is probably the only empirically verifiable doctrine in the church 's library and it 's easily stated . |
| 20 | postmodernism can best be defined as European culture 's awareness that it is no longer the unquestioned and dominant centre of the world . |
| 21 | Even the figure of the men actually under arms — which Polybius gives as two hundred and ten thousand for 225 B.C. — can hardly be compared with Hannibal 's army unless it is properly analysed . |
| 22 | Labour and plant disruption is likely to have the greatest impact on the contractor 's cost but it is invariably the most difficult to substantiate and evaluate . |
| 23 | But he will probably avoid restating Britain 's position that it is mainly China 's responsibility to restore Hong Kong 's confidence , and will instead urge locals to build the territory as a separate but valuable part of the ‘ one country , two systems ’ model under which it is to return to China . |
| 24 | So that would make erm er five one six five as a married man 's or a married couple 's allowance as it 's now called , plus the three four four five . |
| 25 | The problem of how to produce a red wine was as acute in Dom Pérignon 's time as it is today , but according to Frère Pierre he found a solution to the problem by using old vines and selecting only the ripest grapes ; he was thus able to achieve three or four successful vintages of decently coloured wines for about every ten , when the vines might enjoy exceptional warmth during the summer . |
| 26 | The Government controls Parliament 's time and it is therefore able to limit debate where its proposals are proving controversial or where a rational examination of them is turning out to be embarrassing . |
| 27 | It is a waste of everyone 's time because it is just a case of sour grapes as we were losing . |
| 28 | It fits uncomfortably into Braque 's oeuvre but it is nevertheless a milestone in the history of Cubism . |
| 29 | The Faculty of Homoeopathy would certainly concur with Simon Crawford 's view that it is absolutely unethical for any medicine to be sold as natural and especially as homoeopathic if it were to include pharmacologically active ingredients , whether hormonal or otherwise . |
| 30 | Yes , take her — I 'll check with Hawick 's office that it 's all right if you come mob-handed , but I 've a feeling in my water about this one . |