Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence even a specific target , say " price to cover average costs ' , can be met in many ways , because average costs may be high because the firm is relatively inefficient , or low because it is relatively efficient . |
| 2 | Other species from one particular microhabitat in the region may be over-represented in the predator assemblage if it is a favoured hunting area or under-represented if it is not ( see Append . |
| 3 | She said appropriate things in the right places , and hardly knew whether she was glad or sorry when it was time to go . |
| 4 | Or eight and it 's usually easier to put |
| 5 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
| 6 | They know what areas they 've got to cover in maths or English and it 's a question of their motivation . |
| 7 | If we knew all the pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action , and could assign a degree of intensity , a duration , and a probability ( represented as a fraction of one ) to each , then the multiplication of these by each other , treating pleasure as a positive and pain as a negative quantity , would give the total positive or negative value of the action 's consequences , and it would be a good or right act if the result was positive , bad or wrong if it was negative . |
| 8 | Both male and female show broad white bars on the upper side of the wing in flight but several ducks display white patches of one kind or another and it is not a very useful diagnostic feature . |
| 9 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 10 | Of all Edward 's legislation , three pieces particularly affected the church : the statutes De Viris Religiosis , or Mortmain as it is commonly called , Circumspecte Agatis , and Westminster II , chapter 41 . |
| 11 | The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought . |
| 12 | The bacon is then put through the smoking process or left as it is . |
| 13 | Winemark and other Independents have the Bellingham range which includes Culemborg Chenin Blanc ( or Steen as it is known in SA ) Crisp , fresh slightly off dry with a definite style of its own , £3.99 . |
| 14 | Many of us probably purchased a camera in the seventies or eighties and it is probably now sitting in a cupboard unused , following the invasion of the small fully-automatic camera . |
| 15 | Yes there is something outside his window , however near or far and it is alive but he does n't have to be seeing it and on the other hand something is alive in the room because actually if you look at the context of that , something else is alive beside the clock 's loneliness and the blank page where my fingers move . |
| 16 | Haemophilia was graded as severe if the patient 's concentration of coagulation factor was <0.01 of the normal value , moderate if it was 0.01–0.05 , or mild if it was >0.05 . |
| 17 | The romance of ardent feeling and eager endeavour never becomes cloying or sentimental because it is sustained by , included in , that movement in space and time which we can call the action of a story . |
| 18 | With the current state of play , what you want in the way of networking may not be easy or cheap but it is almost certainly possible . |
| 19 | Nothing very dramatic here , then , but at least he was in the buying and selling game , not a wage slave , and there can hardly have been a time when it was not easier to sell the odd pork chop or two than it was to convince an employer that he ought to buy your skills as a craftsman . |
| 20 | There must also be at least one director if the company is private , or two if it is to be public . |
| 21 | As soon as I can find someone to stay with the girls , for a night or two if it 's necessary , I 'm going to go . |
| 22 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 23 | men excluded from wo , some part or other because it was causing so many problems . |
| 24 | The onset is not quite as rapid or violent as Belladonna or Aconite but it is not quite as torpid and slow as Gelsemium . |
| 25 | It did n't look deep or treacherous but it was deadly . |
| 26 | Some children tend to insist that their models , cars , towers , etc. are the biggest , fastest or tallest and it is not always kind to suggest otherwise . |
| 27 | There is a 50 gallon mark on the 4′ tank but I have filled it higher than that and it is holding 65 gallons . |
| 28 | The number attending was smaller than usual but it was , nevertheless , a most enjoyable and successful function . |
| 29 | He says they had to deal with more serious injuries than usual and it 's down to the lack of rain . |
| 30 | You may want to take your dog out earlier than normal if it is difficult to find a quiet spot . |