Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs.
2 Or perhaps it was just shock at seeing me without the gag .
3 This would lead , or so it was widely feared , to a change in labour market behaviour .
4 Whether or not it 's eventually privatised , it will still need Government support .
5 I think they can be very useful because a lot of having monarchy brings , you know , American tourists , a big influx into the country , and whether that 's good or not it 's certainly brings money into the country , so that from that point of view it 's quite good to have them .
6 The use of tests also depends upon certain assumptions about the nature of the data , such as whether or not it is normally distributed , is of roughly equal within-group variability and reflects independent observations .
7 This will therefore include a proportion of the amount paid to the director by S1 , whether or not it is actually included in the management charge .
8 A director whose functions demand the possession of some technical ability would accordingly be required to comply with the standard of the reasonably competent practitioner of the expertise in question , whether or not it was actually possessed .
9 The main complaint was that Microsoft offered large discounts to PC makers who agreed to pay for a copy of MS-DOS or Windows for every machine they sold , whether or not it was actually loaded with one .
10 But the results of Fig. 5.2 show that the degree of suppression evoked by a test stimulus does not depend upon whether or not it was appetitively reinforced during the first stage .
11 So here or here or here it is really zero We can never say it actually is
12 Or maybe it was just lost .
13 It will be a condition only if either there is an earlier case establishing that such a clause is a condition ( i.e. ‘ of the essence ’ ) or else it was clearly intended by the parties when they made the contract that any breach of that term would entitle the other party to repudiate the contract and reject the goods .
14 The killas weathers and crumbles easily and so it is easily eroded by rivers and the sea .
15 This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies .
16 Not surprisingly , given the well-known stance of the Seven on political unity , EFTA was not intended to have any political implications , and so it was not deemed necessary for it to have an elaborate institutional structure .
17 And so it was actually becoming dangerous at the same time .
18 The biggest problem with the diabetic clinic is that time tends to be very limited and perhaps it is best regarded as a place for assessment and the identification of problems , with a little time for education .
19 The latest addition to the Stoddard Group , Mercia Weavers as it was known , is now nine months old and already it is fully integrated into the organisation at Elderslie .
20 This is the kind of data which is not relevant to his objectives and thus it is not recorded in his model .
21 and hopefully it 's not gon na change !
22 ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through .
23 Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through .
24 And now it 's finally happening .
25 ‘ Planned it for years to give me pleasure in my retirement and now it 's just getting into a mess .
26 So that 's all arranged and now it 's just waiting for everything
27 He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water .
28 And now it 's almost finished , except for one last job .
29 He had worked at the idea with all the intensity of youth , and now it was about to bear fruit .
30 The peasants tore up and burned the copies they received ; and often it was simply ignored and the singing of hymns in Latin continued .
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