Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it [be] [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 | The connections between gender and class were apparent enough in the early modern period , and if the transvestite was a pervert or invert it was precisely in the pre-sexological senses of these ideas ; whether actually or only in the paranoid imagination of the dominant , she was regarded as upsetting the entire social domain , even when her sexual ‘ orientation ’ was not the issue . |
| 3 | We tell them to be quiet because we want them to look at television , or say it 's too wet to go out for a walk when they are wanting to wear their new wellies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ When we 're writing or recording it 's always serious , and then if you went on the road for two months and you were serious you 'd spend your whole life being serious ! |
| 6 | If it is to be baled or carted it is most important that it is well and evenly dried . |
| 7 | On the other hand when the Goigama made money payments in return for services or labour it was always to people who were right outside the system such as shopkeepers or Tamil labourers hired on a casual basis . |
| 8 | But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it 's no go if your personality is n't worth translating . |
| 9 | The discomfort of uncertainty and change is high , so the drive to avoid or resolve it is high too . |
| 10 | Or had it been so unimaginable ? |
| 11 | ‘ Our bowling was not consistent in the World Cup , nor has it been here , ’ lamented Procter . |
| 12 | Then she was wrenched out of shadow into heavier shadow still , and realized it was almost too late already . |
| 13 | In such an atmosphere of rancour and distrust it was hardly surprising that the magazine never developed a proper editorial identity . |
| 14 | The general picture which emerges is one in which , whilst a considerable amount of assistance does pass between relatives , the procedures for asking for , offering and accepting it are quite tricky to handle in practice . |
| 15 | ‘ Tea and dance it is then , ’ she agreed . |
| 16 | He chose a very long one and realising it was too long chose a smaller one . |
| 17 | and has it 's so important in the pathogenesis of the capsule that antibodies to it can be used er , ca , er can actually completely prevent the disease and we end up with a capsule vaccine based on the type B pulse . |
| 18 | Diffusing knowledge and acquiring it are as much an art as a science , processes influenced by variables which can not be measured as much as by those which can . |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | If it 's a small discharge and say it 's twice the limits , three times the limits , then it would be considered to be needing improvement . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , sometimes you create this illusion for yourself , because you 've been with it a certain number of hours , but it can also go the other way : you might think something 's horrible and then come in the next day and realise it 's actually pretty good . |
| 23 | Until some spoilsport thought to measure the 100-yard track — and found it was just over 70 yards . |
| 24 | Albert looked at his watch and found it was only six , but thought it gratuitous to say so . |
| 25 | The fact that the firms allowed him to use the money for his own purposes and replace it was merely an indulgence . |
| 26 | The Romans called the spirit or GHOST of a dead person his manes or mares , and believed it was also interred deep in the earth in its master 's grave . |
| 27 | ‘ Many of our customers could not understand why we might have only one style of nightdress or long-sleeved blouse , but it was because Laura was trying to evolve the most perfect example of that particular item and believed it was more important to have one good example of each than several skirts and dresses , ’ Moira explains . |
| 28 | As a vet I am delighted this book is on the market and hope it is widely read . |
| 29 | Beside the ‘ Date Entered School ’ column he saw one marked ‘ Date Left School ’ , and noticed it was completely empty . |
| 30 | 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 . |