Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [is] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 According to that theory everything exists for only an instant and is then replaced by a facsimile of itself , so that it is but a series of momentary existences like the successive frames in a cine-camera film .
2 Especially if it 's if as when it first turns on or if the f the fan heater is not blowing very much .
3 long and it 's and it 's , it 's about the same colour as Hattie 's , a bit darker
4 Yet if one observes this battle more closely one may see that it is waged around what one might call the ephemera of sex : what is seen , what is said , what is written rather than what is or is not concerned with sexual reality .
5 With a formal pool the gardener knows exactly where he is and can ruthlessly cull any plants that step out of line .
6 It may not be so any longer and it 's because this report deals with this aspect that I feel this a vital and important matter er that that in fact comes in front of us .
7 I love it just as it is but it can be sauced with burnt brandy .
8 Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk .
9 and it 'll come up that he 's and that 's probably the sort of person your going to get somebody who 's is a smell about rather than
10 So , he gets them up and he 's and er
11 And there 's and erm we 're doing a project on conservation and actually helping the conservation as well and erm as well cos so them up and it 's and it 's gey good for our own project .
12 Many conventional doctors and scientists , however , are still reluctant to accept that acupuncture can have therapeutic as well as analgesic effects , and this is at least partly because there is as yet little theoretical explanation of how acupuncture could exert therapeutic — as opposed to analgesic — action .
13 Yet for ten novels of adventure using this formulaic , superficial method there will be one , if we can find it , which by stretching the convention of improbable excitement by an acceptance of human nature both as it is and as it can be , offers not an escape but an enlargement of life through imagination .
14 Another thing Jean you can get the boys today is to clear their drawers out if there 's that they do n't would you bring the plate down if there 's clothes
15 Well I think really if he 's if he 's
16 She said that their body temperature is such and such a million times lower than ours is and that we burn them , literally burn them , if we touch them .
17 Well if it 's if it was very hot could it could it melt the plastic ?
18 Er well if it 's if it 's possible yeah , but if if it 's on your you 'll have to disconnect your battery .
19 Small towns , therefore , occupied a defined economic niche , even if it is but imperfectly understood .
20 what I 'm trying to help you practise , cos we 're not , we 're very good at asking closed questions in conversations but do n't very often recognize , but you know , we , we we we , we 'll zip backwards and forwards , and that 's okay , but I want you to do consciously is know what type of questions you 're asking because you can sometimes be hitting a brick wall and thinking I 'm getting anywhere here and it 's because you 're asking too many closed questions .
21 Paradoxically , his subsequent statements do , in fact , make his conception élitist and authoritarian : Shakespeare and Minder are to be applauded but Dallas , Dynasty and quiz shows are to be decried because they ‘ show a contempt for the audience , nut simply as it is but also as it might be … ’ .
22 What 's this about if it 's after n well if what 's after nine o'clock , a film ?
23 Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic .
24 There 's projects with the kids you know get the kids to work on what they want what they want to see get them to work on their parents and find out you could find out then whether there is or not in Harlow .
25 And I 'd say well if there are two parents there whether it 's whether they 're married or whether they 're not , the parents are there together , it was shared equally .
26 There 's a rumour goes round that it 's because of something he 's said .
27 Erm is before you to confirm on er Council and I 'd like to start by saying very briefly that there is as you know a government legal distinction between the er the operational side of waste disposal and the regulation side , and properly er issues on recycling have been referred er and decisions on that should be referred to the policy committee but er we work very closely with officer 's before you hear us er request it .
28 Marcus here — ’ ‘ Yeah , yeah , whatever — he maybe has n't got it yet but it 's as good as . ’
29 But even if one is not antagonised by the appalling monotony of Mr. Lawrence 's theme , under all its splendid variations , one still turns away with the judgement : ‘ this is not my world , either as it is or as I should wish it to be . ’
30 Nice as she is and nice as I am , we 're both second string to the power and the rowing ability of the crews .
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