Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [coord] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although age and sex did not influence the results , enhanced synthesis of lipoxygenase products has been reported in the synovial fluid and tissue of patients with rheumatoid arthritis or spondyloarthritis and it is possible that this was a confounding variable . |
| 2 | Material realities may be profound sources of satisfaction or discontent but it is more often symbols which signal to people their own position , their own worth , and their own precariousness . |
| 3 | One characteristic of depression is to feel utterly alone and bereft of help or hope and it is therefore almost impossible to feel God 's love and nearness at such a time . |
| 4 | In the UK uplands there appears to be much less hunting or shooting and it is less organised , except of grouse and red deer in the Scottish hills and also in parts of Northern England and Wales . |
| 5 | All the men he knows are fathers or grandfathers and it is in that capacity that he knows them . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the individual authorities are gagged from revealing anything meaningful about their business or aims and it is doubtful that the prospectuses , when they are published , will be any more illuminating . |
| 7 | Tobacco is not a food or drink but it is something which is taken into the body through the mouth ( and nose ) . |
| 8 | The urban environment is not defined as readily as a region such as North America or Australia but it is a way of studying part of the world that has some unifying attribute . |
| 9 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman that British coal is the cheapest in western Europe , but it is certainly not cheaper than coal from the United States or Australia and it is still uncompetitive in world terms . |
| 10 | Hold it in Stockholm , New York , or Lyon and it 's seen as a freebie for ‘ lucky old you ’ . |
| 11 | Well , no , you can not breed Killifish as you would Zebra Danios or Angelfish and it 's true that some are best left to the specialist . |
| 12 | As far as the exemption in s103(3) is concerned , " arrangement " is again widely defined as any agreement , scheme or arrangement and it is thought that it must be the case that at least part , if not the whole , of the consideration for the shares allotted is the transfer of the shares in the other company ( ie the target ) . |
| 13 | Papers are not necessarily priced according to their surfaces , Rough , Not or HP and it is worth looking carefully at the various makes and their qualities , as two papers may have similar characteristics but be quite different in price . |
| 14 | You do n't have to pay for parking or petrol and it 's much quicker than walking . |
| 15 | Go to a road race or track meet in Britain or Europe and it 's people like Alan you 'll see . |
| 16 | We shall if you request , negotiate in the capacity of professional advisers on your behalf within pre-agreed negotiating parameters or instructions but it is our policy not to take decisions on your behalf . |
| 17 | From there she could have travelled to France or Belgium but it is not known whether she boarded a ferry . |
| 18 | With a natural pool it is impossible to select its position or shape and it is foolish to attempt to convert such a natural asset into an artificial formal pool . |
| 19 | You can choose whether you want the rulers to be in inches or centimetres and it is possible to work to millimetre accuracy if you need to . |
| 20 | The horn is fitted with three valves or pistons and it is the function of these valves to lower the pitch of the instrument in varying degrees by opening up fresh lengths of tube . |
| 21 | It 's a very difficult name at times to live up to I 'm sure because the word Hugh literally means mind or soul and it is important that we seek indeed to live up to what our names mean . |
| 22 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 23 | Er the , the only good thing to come out of these proposals is that erm that he supports the erm the appearance of the public enquiry and the sale of erm that , that erm he suggests for example that we should try the airports policy consortium , well we dealt that five years ago when we realised that Surrey and it 's surrounding areas were getting their own pressure group organised to make sure that Stansted got all of the flack got all the , got all the few other things as well . |
| 24 | Lorne excuses his monocle on the grounds that , being astigmatic in one eye and myopic in the other , he needs but one lens to neutralize the problem and that one lens is harder to break than glasses and it is easier to carry spares . |
| 25 | But to Phyllis Broome , a Worcestershire neighbour , writer and walking companion , he wrote : ‘ Here is the biggest job in the world and if I fail I shall share the fate of many a bigger man than I. But it 's a fine thought , is n't it ? |
| 26 | Yes , the stage is larger than life and it is about emotions that are big enough to wrap round you . |
| 27 | We we saw him come on against Birmingham about a month or so ago and save that penalty and it 's ironic that that 's how Nigel Spinks started at at Villa was n't it when he came on for Jimmy Rimmer and if Bosnich does the same job as what Nigel 's done over the past ten years then no one 's going to argue . |
| 28 | Typesetters can be accessed by routes other than PostScript but it is essential to match fonts exactly . |
| 29 | The majority of investment expenditure is on fixed capital formation rather than inventories and it is to this that we now turn . |
| 30 | Because some people need a lot more treatment than others and it 's something you can not , you can not forecast |