Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Britomart and Radigund forgot their skill in battle ( whether they also forgot their feminine nature or revealed it is more difficult to determine ) . |
| 2 | When the principal exemplars of this class are dramatically eliminated the message is clear : middlemanship destroys from within , and the act of passing something on without truly changing or improving it is psychologically nullifying . |
| 3 | If it is to be baled or carted it is most important that it is well and evenly dried . |
| 4 | The discomfort of uncertainty and change is high , so the drive to avoid or resolve it is high too . |
| 5 | We may also include in discourse deixis a number of other ways in which an utterance signals its relation to surrounding text , e.g. utterance-initial anyway seems to indicate that the utterance that contains it is not addressed to the immediately preceding discourse , but to one or more steps back . |
| 6 | Once ruined it is extremely difficult to put right . |
| 7 | Sometimes my own phone rings , and the voice that answers it is here inside the room , emerging from somewhere about the point where my two shirtsleeves meet . |
| 8 | Imagine , if you will , one Aztec priest arguing with another in the year 1452 : ‘ I have made calculations that indicate it is nearly impossible for intelligent beings to exist in this hypothetical world you call Europe . |
| 9 | It follows a ruling in the High Court that the government 's guidance to officers that operate it is too strict , limiting awards of grants and loans to poor people . |
| 10 | A psychology that ignores it is more likely to turn into a dogmatic police force of a discourse . |
| 11 | In that setting it is very difficult for our " propaganda " to be as effective as it might otherwise be . |
| 12 | It 's when the vomit comes out your mouth that does it is n't it ? |
| 13 | Once acquired it is rarely lost , even in echinoderms like sea urchins that ( perhaps ) could also function on a different symmetry pattern . |
| 14 | Some said the syndicate that runs it is so powerful it can order the airline , and even the government , to do whatever it wants . |
| 15 | Faced with a given set of words which are capable of conveying that meaning it is not surprising if the words are accepted as having that meaning . |
| 16 | ‘ Tea and dance it is then , ’ she agreed . |
| 17 | Where a spoken sentence is long and complicated it is more likely to be PARATACTIC ; this means it is likely to be a string of sentences tied together with " and " , " or " , or " but " . |
| 18 | ‘ I dare anyone in the Fund to point to a country and say it is much better off economically today because of a Fund programme , ’ says Budhoo . |
| 19 | As a vet I am delighted this book is on the market and hope it is widely read . |
| 20 | After a period of activity and shouting it is surprisingly easy to introduce a game like ‘ dead lions ’ ( p.39 ) and have all the children being as quiet as they can be . |
| 21 | The Mercury One-2-One Ltd digital cellular joint venture between Cable & Wireless Plc and US West Inc has been talking to Reuters , and says it is not seeking to trigger a price war with Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Plc . |
| 22 | But my wife , who is a Russian speaker , has witnessed this particular drama and says it is n't a Slav language . |
| 23 | Asia Watch , however , makes the point that workers and intellectuals were the real target of the authorities ' retribution after the 1989 protests , and says it is too early to talk of a more liberal approach until many more of those prisoners are released . |
| 24 | In local area networking , Novell has weathered the storm whipped up by Microsoft by holding onto a 70% share of the market with NetWare , and says it is now the biggest shipper of TCP/IP , sending out code for 40,000 to 50,000 terminals a month . |
| 25 | Ousley claims CDC has some $130m in cash reserves and says it is now in the market for acquisitions in the channels and application areas . |
| 26 | In local area networking , Novell has weathered the storm against Microsoft by gaining 70% of the market with NetWare , and says it is now the biggest shipper of TCP/IP , sending out 40–50,000 seats a month . |
| 27 | The Saudi government claims to have removed the equivalent of 1.7 million barrels from offshore slicks , and says it is now starting to address the problem of oil on the beaches . |
| 28 | It is also a leading member of the MIPS Application Binary Interface initiative ( along with other MIPS users such as NEC Corp , Tandem Computers Inc , Pyramid Technology Corp and Silicon Graphics Inc ) , and says it is perfectly happy with its choice of chip . |
| 29 | It is also a leading member of the MIPS ABI initiative ( along with other MIPS users such as NEC , Tandem , Pyramid and Silicon Graphics ) , and says it is perfectly happy with its choice of chip . |
| 30 | It has teamed up with Ungermann-Bass Inc to develop some of the interfaces to Emerald and says it is currently on the look-out for similar collaborations , which may take some of the financial strain from its development programmes . |