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

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1 It makes all the difference to the members of the public and the good will that it builds up is terribly important .
2 That has been monumental help , but it has not been just practical help .
3 It has not been sufficiently sensitive to the issues which divide and potentially destroy us , or to the need to renounce the legacy of patriarchal relations in our own behaviour .
4 He answered cryptically but not very informatively ; ‘ It has not been though expedient for the Grand Junction to widen the locks . ’
5 The realignment of exchange rates discussed above might suggest that it has not been very successful in promoting greater exchange rate stability .
6 But it has not been too cold at night and hopefully this wo n't go on until the winter .
7 However , although the WDA has remained , it has not been as interventionist in terms of urban policy as has the SDA .
8 ‘ No doubt business is better than last year but it has not been as good as many people suggested it might be , ’ he said .
9 ‘ It does n't seem to bother you that it has n't been altogether successful so far . ’
10 If he wants to do it his way and he succeeds then great , but so far it has n't been that successful .
11 dog you see , but er you can tell it has n't been that tough a winter because there 's still
12 It has n't been that busy , it 's not busy .
13 Well the atmosphere is very bad indeed in Belfast because er we had this before of course twenty years ago we had various bad situations but it has n't been so bad in recent years , but this last fortnight , er we 've had U V F killings , then we had this terrible bomb by the I R A killing the protestants in the Shankhill Road .
14 And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well .
15 Yes touch wood , for flowers it has n't been too bad a year , so far , we have n't had very .
16 It has n't been as difficult as I thought it would be , so far … but I 'm determined not to have another smoke .
17 It has previously been as high as 60p , and should rocket . "
18 It has also been scrupulously fair and we are determined to clear our names .
19 It has also been deftly successful with its new Universal credit card .
20 ( It has also been more concerned with attitudes and values than teacher knowledge and skills . )
21 The ratio of the capital inflows to the trade and commerce position has averaged 0.31 , although clearly it has also been quite volatile .
22 It has also been very difficult indeed to establish any reliable differences in sleep profiles between different sorts of people — men versus women , the extroverted versus the introverted or the intelligent versus the unintelligent .
23 It has just been too long .
24 It has nevertheless been quite comforting to discover , that , in general terms , most European lawyers make common cause with the Bar rather than the Law Society .
25 In its impact on British politics and economic policy it has already been remarkably successful .
26 The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him .
27 But it has only been half successful because everyone wants to be able to go everywhere .
28 It has always been pretty marginal . ’
29 And as a consequence , it has always been prohibitively expensive .
30 In appearance , it looks like a stage set for drama — and indeed it has always been just that , whether in historic times , when the drama of John Knox and Mary , Queen of Scots , was played out in the streets , or today , when Schiller 's Mary Stuart , or Donizetti 's or Thea Musgrave 's operas about the ill-fated queen , may be staged at the Edinburgh Festival .
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