Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 Extremely fast cars evaporate it is no use changing extremely or fast — we must replace cars or evaporate : Extremely fast cars disintegrate or Extremely fast solvents evaporate .
2 ‘ She 's got so many screws loose it 's a wonder it stays on her shoulders . ’
3 it was a great winner … his sixth of the season … and it just about booked Swindon a place in the promotion-play offs … with only four games to go it 's asking too much to make the top two but only a disaster can keep them out of the play-offs …
4 Well instead of going and destroying utility plants such as power plants and desalination plants , there are actually easier way and a less expensive way to do it is by attacking like sub-stations which erm actually you do n't destroy the power plant , you just destroy the erm source where you can distribute electricity to the whole country .
5 This accords with common sense since if there is a defence to an unlawful demand the most appropriate time to raise it is when the demand is sought to be enforced by action .
6 However , the more usual way to represent it is not in terms of deviations of the actual unemployment rate from its natural rate but in terms of deviations of the logarithm of output , y , from its natural value , y * ; .
7 It was sweet of you to go ; I just thought I better get something but once these attacks start it 's a bit too late to take anything really .
8 An and in , in that sense it 's quite moderate , and in the sense of , of protecting middle peasants it 's quite moderate erm but in , in terms of encouraging the move back to , to more radical land reforms it is an important step forward .
9 ‘ Then why let that awful little man think it is ? ’
10 What Qaddafi means here is that people should not make alliances outside the nation ( just as many Libyans said it is preferable to marry close — for example , to a father 's brother 's child ) .
11 When this is augmented by oddly tangential keyboard sounds it 's an enjoyable little maelstrom to be caught up in .
12 With that much money involved it is not surprising that fusion has seen its share of political intrigue .
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