Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor can I look at the way in which this view of faith and reason has influenced contemporary Christian thinking , both mainstream and among the evangelical or fundamentalist groups where it is most in evidence . |
| 2 | However , to choose either route is to lose information on either means or status that is helpful to targeting support where it is most required . |
| 3 | Firstly , there are the so-called pronouns of laziness ( Geach , 1962 : 125ff ) , as in Karttunen 's well-known sentence ( see Lyons , 1977a : 673ff ) : ( 93 ) The man who gave his paycheck to his wife was wiser than the man who gave it to his mistress where it is not co-referential with his paycheck , but refers to what a repetition of that NP would have referred to ( namely the paycheck of the man whose mistress got it ) if it had occurred in place of it . |
| 4 | On a system like the ZX Spectrum where it is often easier to draw in black and white before adding the colours this in an essential facility . |
| 5 | People frequently give sympathy where it 's not wanted — where the other person perhaps regards themselves as strong , determined , a fighter . |
| 6 | The currency of a provisional grant where it is not declared final is to be a period of one year ( subs . |
| 7 | Fond memories of Jerry Lee Lewis who blew up a storm of indignation in the 1950s , not to mention Presley , whose subversive pelvis was banned from television in some American states where it was only permitted to film Elvis-the-Pelvis from the waist upwards . |
| 8 | Summarizing is a key behaviour in effective meetings where it is usually an important part of the chairing role . |
| 9 | It turns out that if I choose a direction and look at the electron 's spin in relation to that direction then either its axis of rotation points along that direction or it is wholly in the reverse direction . |
| 10 | Either that Sardinian 's being there was coincidence or it was n't — and , for goodness ' sake , if it was n't — |
| 11 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 12 | This ‘ technology transfer ’ is a process of innovation , but it involves spreading existing technology from sectors where it is conventionally used throughout industry so as to provide added value and competitive advantage . |
| 13 | Basically the idea is that in sectors where it is not feasible to have competition in the market place ( with all the associated incentives to efficient performance ) then it may nevertheless be possible to have competition for the market . |
| 14 | The cash has been sent on to HQ where it is sorely needed ( see our Spring issue ) . |
| 15 | Never threaten any action that it is not your real intention to carry out . |
| 16 | Amphibians in the wild are food for so many other animals that it is not surprising that they do not always show themselves well even in confinement . |
| 17 | Ross MacKay , director of the Institute of Economic Research at the University College of North Wales , Bangor , told the North Wales 2000 Prospects and Opportunities conference in Llangollen that it was much too early for the Government to consider scrapping regional aid to Clwyd and Gwynedd in favour of the South East of England . |
| 18 | He need not devote much time to the programme once it is up and running , since most of the work performed by a rehabilitation programme can safely be delegated to nurses , clinical assistants , physiotherapists , occupational therapists , psychologists , dietitians and others . |
| 19 | In a number of cases , however , there may be a tendency to regard it , rather , as a sort of libation to the gods — a project or programme acquiring a certain added respectability by being evaluated , but with no deep-seated resolve on the part of its organisers to make any substantial organisational or financial investment in change ( after all to contemplate fundamental change to a primary programme once it is underway is an exceptionally costly business ) . |
| 20 | ‘ To have intercourse with a woman who is not your wife is , even today , not generally considered to be a course of conduct which the law ought positively to encourage and it can be argued with force that it is only fair to the woman and not in the least unfair to the man that he should be under a duty to take reasonable care to ascertain that she is consenting to the intercourse and be at the risk of a prosecution if he fails to take such care . ’ |
| 21 | Academia is by now a necessary experience , in a manner it is never likely to have looked to Defoe or Dickens — something to be lived , for a time , and not forgotten — but quit in the consciousness that it is ultimately unlivable . |
| 22 | When you know something like that , you have absorbed it so deeply into your consciousness that it is never likely to be displaced , except perhaps by brain-washing or frontal lobotomy . |
| 23 | Mr de Soto tells the president that it is not just the size of Peru 's state sector , which includes several hundred companies as well as the ministries , that burdens the people via the fiscal deficit . |
| 24 | I , I ca n't understand the secretariat allowing this to come out were told by the president that it was not possible to use this money unless it was grant related . |
| 25 | Churchill , backed by the military leaders , persuaded the President that it was too soon for a direct assault on Europe , and that in its place there should be an Anglo-American invasion of North Africa ( Operation Torch ) to link up with the British Army already fighting the Germans and Italians in the Western Desert . |
| 26 | And there was poor Fred , speaking up for the reviled council block in which he , unlike any of the others , lived : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad , it 's a lot of it exaggeration , ’ he interposed mildly , as Steve repeated the time-worn allegation that it was n't safe to walk under the deck walkways for fear of having a television set or an old mattress chucked on your head : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad at all . ’ |
| 27 | She looked at her watch and realised with disappointment that it was much earlier than she had expected . |
| 28 | The general theory of the second best then provides the unhelpful result that it is not necessarily better to move prices in those sectors which can easily be adjusted , so as to align more closely with marginal cost . |
| 29 | The first paragraph , for example , comes from p. 10 and the second from p. 13 ; and all the connections Leech and Short make between these pages have been lost , with the result that it is not clear how the first paragraph leads to the second paragraph . |
| 30 | In explosive breeding , all reproductive activity is packed into a few days , with the result that it is highly synchronised . |