Example sentences of "[adj] it [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this it is often assumed that cleaning staff are familiar with the basics especially when women are employed . |
| 2 | And at the more maths you know , I think , the easier it is perhaps to get a job , and perhaps to be able to choose an interesting field . |
| 3 | Mourners claim grass is so high it is now hiding relatives ' gravestones |
| 4 | In fact the success rate at Howard was so high it was once queried and re-checked . |
| 5 | It added : ‘ It would be a tragedy if the frustrations and the hardships that the recession has caused , and for some it is still causing , if it meant that Britain threw away all the achievements of the last decade . |
| 6 | We are customers of a massive industry trying to make money and I understand that for some it 's just staying in business that counts . |
| 7 | Well it 's a , I 'm afraid it 's just getting |
| 8 | I sat and tried to stay calm turning the pages of a Country Life so old it was still selling off prefabs . |
| 9 | After the old maypole was taken down in October 1985 it was sadly missed , especially when the ex-president of the maypole committee , Amos Clapham ( of coal race fame ) , died . |
| 10 | From another it was simply teased out tragedy which had begun with the cruelly pragmatic strangulation of the Inca ( King ) Atahualpa in Cajamarca , followed by the systematic looting of the empire 's wealth and the suffering of its peoples till the Inca kingdom was reduced to the forest sanctuary of Vilcabamba . |
| 11 | The importance of such rights , and the feeling that they were fundamental to the workings of society , is reflected in the fact that when one ruler ceded territory to another it was usually defined in terms of jurisdictions and local administrative divisions ( on the French frontiers , for example , baillages , prévotés , sénéchaussées or communes ) and not , as would now be the case , in those of lines laid down in precise geographical terms and illustrated by a map . |
| 12 | The story of a village choir which forms the basis of the novel was Hardy 's recreation of tales of the experiences of his father and grandfather as church musicians shortly before his own birth , and as such it is clearly drawn from his deepest and happiest memories . |
| 13 | As such it is well placed at a centre point to visit all the other treasures of the region . |
| 14 | Compaction by mechanical processes involves movement by slippage between grains and the breakage , or fracture , of individual grains ; as such it is sometimes termed brittle compaction . |
| 15 | As such it was duly added to the membership roll of the contraption known as the United Nations , which asserts that all nations are equal ( albeit some more so than others ) , with one vote each , just as if they were individual human beings in a right-little tight-little democratic State . |
| 16 | As such it was widely interpreted as a personal triumph for Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa , whose position as leader of the party had been less than secure since his election in October 1991 . |
| 17 | This relegation - for as such it was undoubtedly construed — to the domestic realm , whilst on the one hand promoting a higher status than before for women in terms of motherhood ( a status generated for society 's structural purposes and needs ) , also resulted in an overall decrease in women 's status generally , for , to use the well known Levi-Straussian model , the domestic unit — i.e. the ‘ biological ’ family concerned with reproducing and socializing new members of society — was seen as separate from the public entity — i.e. the superimposed network of alliances and relationships which comprised society proper , as it were . |
| 18 | As such it was eagerly taken up by newly enfranchised members of Roman society . |
| 19 | In the third century B.C. Judaea proper was a small part of Palestine : it was almost identifiable with the territory of the city of Jerusalem , and as such it was still envisaged by Polybius in the middle of the second century B.C. ( 16 , fr. 39 ) . |
| 20 | On Nov. 7 it was widely reported that Nigerian Alpha jets had bombed NPFL positions in the Monrovia suburbs of Gardnersville , Mount Barclay and Stockton Creek the previous day , and had also attacked areas close to the rebel headquarters at Gbarnga , 160 km north of Monrovia on Nov. 5 . |
| 21 | But whatever its humble origins , when the new word was picked up by the newspapers in August 1898 it was quickly transformed into a term of more general notoriety , so that ‘ Hooligan ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ became the controlling words to describe troublesome youths who had previously been known more loosely as ‘ street arabs ’ , ‘ ruffians ’ or ‘ roughs ’ . |
| 22 | Cryptosporidium was diagnosed three weeks ago , but doctors are convinced it 's now died off and Julie 's current problems are the result of something else . |
| 23 | customers and how much it 's actually cost you to put the jobs right . |
| 24 | Now , the relationship between how much labour there is , how much it 's actually going to cost with labour and plant to do something , and what the bill rate is can be anything . |
| 25 | 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land . |
| 26 | I mean , I know it 's hard it 's hard doing erm |
| 27 | by the late Seventies it was generally acknowledged that a funding system partially dependent on the departments would be unlikely to assure speedy progress towards a comprehensive service in the sector and would do nothing to reduce the substantial regional inequalities in the distribution of extra hospital facilities . |
| 28 | In 1946 it was forcibly merged with the Communist Party into what was , and is , called the Socialist Unity Party ( SED ) . |
| 29 | In 1972 — 73 it was initially approved after some preliminary negotiation and a one-day visit , as set out above . |
| 30 | It was unoccupied , but whether that was because it went unnoticed or because every family was so large it was never taken by anyone , I do n't know . |