Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [conj] it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought . |
| 2 | ‘ Love apples , ’ she had said to Mark , and the words ‘ love apple ’ had somehow given a name to the district , strange and different as it was from the rest of the parish which lay over the other side of the main road , far from the railway line . |
| 3 | The dietary fibre connection is not in any way as clear and direct as it is in the evidence concerning cancer of the colon . |
| 4 | Then there was nothing but the river running wide and strong and dark and it was as if the highway had never existed . |
| 5 | It follows , in my opinion , that the servant may , whilst in the employment of the master , be as agreeable , attentive , and skilful as it is in his power to be to others with the ultimate view of obtaining the benefit of the customers ' friendly feelings when he calls upon them if and when he sets up business for himself . |
| 6 | My Lords , erm i legislation is complex and I agree that we should do what we can to keep a clear er , er to keep it clear and simple if it 's at all possible and erm er I agree though that one needs a fully up-to-date text of the nineteen sixty four Police Act in order to decipher every last dot and comma . |
| 7 | Soren Kierkegaard 's concept of love is calm and homely but it is in authentic part of the reality of love . |
| 8 | A special form of coloured route marker had to be developed and approved and it was in this field , as with TRE , that Bennett had the least of his problems . |
| 9 | But , in a situation in which an arboreal habitat has led to a reliance on visual cues and a generalized body-structure and postural suppleness , even the correct mating-position may not be obvious and automatic as it is in many other animals . |
| 10 | The roads in this upper part of the valley were designed in medieval times for the occasional passage of horses and carts and have never been brought to modern standards by straightening and widening and it is to be hoped that they never will be . |
| 11 | Guardian readers are sufficiently interesting and distinctive that it is worth tolerating the statistical uncertainties caused by our small sample and the Guardian 's small readership . |
| 12 | It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’ |
| 13 | Every effort will be made to ensure that the information held is accurate and up-to-date and it is in your own interest to tell the Personnel Department if your personal circumstances change ; for example , if you get married or move house . |
| 14 | He felt he knew very little about her present feelings , which were so malign toward him and unmapped that it was as if he were seeing the back side of the moon . |
| 15 | Its tail , so fine and thin that it was like a thread of silver , stretched out for ten times its circumference , terminating in a smaller , silvered sphere little thicker than the thread . |
| 16 | And the carpeting throughout so soft and thick that it was like walking on sheepskins … |
| 17 | The colours all yelled at each other ; most of the furniture was cheap and shabby and it was in a clutter of smelly untidiness , but the general effect was of a room somebody had made the best of according to their taste , and enjoyed living in . |
| 18 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |