Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [conj] it [be] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 recover the text as it was before the editorial operation began .
2 Welsh Wales , in Wales and in the Lake District they found that the er level of nuclear activity on the surface of , of the field as it were and therefore reached the animals is higher than it has been , how would they manage to do that ?
3 Philip Winterbottom , Assistant Manager , Archives would like to hear from anyone who worked at Drummonds prior to 1960 and who could tell him about the branch as it was and of any changes or innovations which occurred .
4 That 's right , I mean why di why have we got the structure of agriculture as we have , you know why why do we still have an atomistical industry right , it 's not just a , a freak of nature , there are economic laws , erm , and opinion that s , that structure the industry and it 's because you just do n't get economies of scale staying in agriculture .
5 Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist .
6 We have a very detailed management plan on the reserve with our main aim being to maintain the habitat as it is and to ensure that any disturbance to the bird community is minimal .
7 Ironically , the Great War would not have been the war that it was if it were not for the machine .
8 Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him .
9 Well yeah but what you can see is the cellar because the torch beams have hit the cellar and it 's and it 's back into your eye .
10 I do not think that the problem which we have to solve is really assisted by considering in what respect his position is the same quoad the landlord as it was before the order was made .
11 What is is this come to light after the event as it were or did you know that was there when we were redoing the machine ?
12 Well I suppose you could erm I suspect it would be cheaper than but it would n't actually increase your pension per se at the end of the day because it 's as I said it 's a separate you know it 's a separate sort of erm income to your pension lump sum .
13 you know kind of build on , build on the criticism as it were and build on the things that people say could improve it erm
14 At the outbreak of war Messiaen joined the army and it was whilst a prisoner in Silesia that he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps which combines the harmonic and rhythmic complexity with refinement of sound that characterizes his later works , notably the epic Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus for solo piano .
15 Think about why you have accepted the situation as it is and what you would do if you were totally powerful to change things .
16 While this as such simply acknowledges the situation as it is and is followed by a far longer passage relating to the benefits of celibacy for the Western rite , it remains a highly important text because it is the first time a Roman Council or any major Roman document has explicitly accepted and recommended the uniting of priesthood and marriage in a single life .
17 Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement .
18 In other words , to is used here to evoke : ( a ) the situation as it was before the infinitive 's event was realized , and ( b ) the movement of the support of the infinitive 's event from position ( a ) to the realization of this event .
19 And er , then I should go to the bobbin shop and ask them if they could get these done today and er , well we got this on , I said no but I , we want it if you could leave them on one side and erm I used to er I , I became , if I might say so and I 'm not boasting or bragging or anything , Michael , I 'm trying to tell you the situation as it was and er I was a very important man to and er they er got me er at one time to er figure out , they , they used to make what was called Woolworths locks .
20 You are encouraged to question the world as it is and to ask how it might be better organized to meet individual and social needs and wants .
21 In 1767 one of these thinkers , Lemercier de la Rivière , in his L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques ( 1767 ) , presented such a ruler as not legislating in any positive sense but merely declaring and applying fundamental laws which were immanent in the nature of things , in the structure of the world as it is and must be .
22 Dalby was held to have been decided in the way that it was because a direction was needed whether or not there was an intervening act , i.e. the words in Dalby did not mean what they said .
23 He varied his dancing routine with occasional headlong gallops round the lawn and it was after he had done about ten successive laps that he seemed to decide he ought to do something about the bitch .
24 The area of special needs in further education/training has had to contend with the fact that it is but a very small part of a very much larger whole , and that the FE college and the training schemes are subject to the vagaries and constraints of the external environment .
25 Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next .
26 It might seem odd to talk about entry halls as a postscript as it were but in practical terms most people put decorating their living rooms first .
27 There was a sign but it was and it was just cracked so cars behind me were just driving over it and nobody could , you ca n't see it .
28 I just did n't know it was as much of a tribute as it was until I was told … rather abruptly !
29 ‘ When I got back and found your note I did n't think for a minute that it was because you thought I was the father of the child .
30 I know there 's an explanation and it 's that she is n't responsible .
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