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

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1 Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive .
2 Reliance was placed on Director of Public Prosecutions v. Ellis [ 1973 ] 1 W.L.R. 722 , where it was held that the fact that two accused persons had been prosecuted to conviction did not mean that the purposes of Part I of the Act , namely securing compliance with and detecting evasion of the Act , were spent ; and that accordingly it was still open to the authorities to employ their powers to obtain information relative to the same transaction from another person .
3 He told Mary that it would be all right and that anyway it was too late now to do anything else .
4 I am saying that there could be an appeal to the Secretary of State and that therefore it is not appropriate to have a meeting .
5 It is said by the appellant … that International Law has firmly fixed that a locus such as this is beyond the limits of territorial sovereignty ; and that consequently it is not to be thought that in such a place the legislature could seek to affect any but the King 's subjects .
6 Once again Day-Lewis manages almost chameleon-like to become subsumed by the part he is acting and although here it is basically one dimensional he persuades easily that this is his actual persona .
7 Flying off water takes different and rather greater skill than boring ground-bound aviation , and while sometimes it is slightly less practical , it is always immensely more rewarding — and much more fun .
8 The sky was cloudless and the air still , and as yet it was not too hot .
9 Went down there with all the wine bottles from Christmas do n't do but and then it 's completely ruined !
10 Manescu wondered whether it was one of the guards , but if so it was n't necessary .
11 Domesticity need never intrude on the relationship ; it may be sporadic , but when there it is always intense .
12 But as always it is not quite that simple .
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