Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this extent the wheel has turned full circle and the NHS is back where it was when Mrs Thatcher was so irritated by stories of bad news about health services that she announced her review of the NHS . |
| 2 | Except it 's not Morrison , it 's actor Val Kilmer — husband of Joanne Whalley — doing a more passable impersonation for the cameras . |
| 3 | Here the verb used for the bequest is legare , which may be sufficient explanation , although it is not Paul 's normal usage . |
| 4 | Mrs Tibbs 's boarding house in the first of the tales is characteristic , although it is not Dickens at his later best : |
| 5 | It was built in 1643–56 by Carlo Lurago , although it was probably Giovanni Battista Alliprandi who enlarged the building in 1715–18 . |
| 6 | In the mating season the male usually has a striking red-orange eyebrow , but these were still nearly all white although it was already June . |
| 7 | Although it was originally IBM 's idea , Hewlett-Packard now appears to be taking the lead — but the inclusion of other companies such as SunSoft Inc and Novell Inc is far from assured . |
| 8 | When you if if you think about a country of song you might think of Wales , but anybody visiting Ireland will know that it 's really Ireland 's got to be a country of song because if you go there you 've got to sing . |
| 9 | President Bush claimed , during the election campaign , that his ‘ dog Millie knew more about foreign policy than Bill Clinton ’ and there is much evidence to suggest that it is not Clinton 's strongest card . |
| 10 | What is significant , however , is that it is not Peter , but Jesus 's brother James who presides over the ‘ Church ’ in Jerusalem . |
| 11 | Recognise that it is not God 's will that Satan strip mission field workers through sickness . |
| 12 | A good reason then for thinking that it is not God 's will that women be ordained is that the church has never done so . |
| 13 | If the atheist uncovers ‘ His ’ identity , then lo and behold the theists start saying that it is n't God after all . |
| 14 | It never enters her head that it is n't Dieter , she happens to have a golf-club in her hand and the temptation is overwhelming . ’ |
| 15 | But he will probably avoid restating Britain 's position that it is mainly China 's responsibility to restore Hong Kong 's confidence , and will instead urge locals to build the territory as a separate but valuable part of the ‘ one country , two systems ’ model under which it is to return to China . |
| 16 | The second limitation is that it is only occam processes that may be transformed : the laws do not apply to guarded processes or conditionals , even when they have the same syntax as processes . |
| 17 | It was as if to prove that it was n't England that had changed that Losey went on to make Accident ( 1967 ) , a powerful triangle drama involving two very different Oxford academics and their exotic pupil , financed from English sources . |
| 18 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 19 | Except that it was n't Jeff . |
| 20 | The fact that nobody wrote and said that he was brilliant and was a genius convinced him that it was n't Robert Bolt who was at fault or the director Noel Willman , but himself as an actor . |
| 21 | Contrary to the obvious evidence you find , there is also enough clues to suggest that it was n't Jack the Ripper at all . |
| 22 | The only thing was that it was n't Noreen . |
| 23 | Two packets of Cuppa Soup , but I 'm not sure that it was n't Cuppa Soup , cos I 've said to Thomas , I 'm not at the moment . |
| 24 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 25 | She reminded herself that it was not Paul 's fault ; and yet , somehow , he should have been able to shield her from this kind of outrage . |
| 26 | Another naval diver and a close friend of Crabb who knew him well , Sidney James Knowles BEM , also saw the body and was quite definite that it was not Crabb . |
| 27 | Recognising that as movement caused him to return to his normal self , he would soon realise that it was not Elizabeth who had found him , Sarah took one last chance . |
| 28 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |
| 29 | He was on a white horse but even she could see that it was not Ana 's horse . |
| 30 | Impressive quarries will remind you that it was here Michelangelo chose the marble for his famous sculptures . |