Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] and [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remove a small quantity of butter from the fridge so that it softens and is easier to spread , then spread it very thinly on bread . |
| 2 | What matters is not its conformity to rules , but the fact that it communicates and is recognized by its receivers as coherent . |
| 3 | Jackie and Jaafer insist that it stands and are prepared to take the company on in court . |
| 4 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 5 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 6 | It falls and it lifts and it lilts and is never still |
| 7 | She has been a member of the Bramshott and Liphook community Care Group since it started and is now on the executive committee . |
| 8 | They are , in fact , the beaches of ice-drained lakes left behind by successive falls in the glacier as it melted and was released from the valley at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 9 | But he would then be treating the past as evidence of present attitudes and convictions , not as important for its own sake , and he would lose interest in the past as it aged and was therefore of less evidential value . |