Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] it [be] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The management of the health service is now infinitely better than it was and the trend to devolving responsibility downwards has continued apace . |
| 2 | And it , it becomes you 'd never actually get the thing printed and you 'd never actually get the thing distributed because you , you , you 're wondering what to put in , what not to put in as it were and sticking to the specifics er at least it 's getting it 's getting something out and I do n't , personally I do n't see any , any real problem in personalizing it further and as much to indicate , right , without obvious prejudice to the new union erm to indicate er in , in some general or specific sense , if that does n't sound like sort of like contradictory , on on the , the , the betterment of , of representation for members within , within Northumberland come unison . |
| 3 | So what I intend to do from this week is that very thing , try and fill in as it were and er make up for what was n't covered in the classes because I must admit that this year I 've been struck by the high st high standard of the class presentations . |
| 4 | These quotations — and many more letters to Edward — amplify , in their chatty , less intense manner , the picture of early courtship recalled by Helen in 1924–6 in As It Was and World Without End . |
| 5 | She asked him to hold the screen just where it was and she went round the back of it , out of his sight . |
| 6 | I 've kept it just as it was and it 's surprising how many people come to see it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Put everything back where it was and start the engine , ’ she screamed . |
| 9 | you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ? |
| 10 | ‘ So I hailed a taxi outside the motel and just said British Committee and he knew immediately where it was and drove me straight there . ’ |
| 11 | And when they opened the Ark they should have discovered Moses in it but they did n't because it was and there we are . |