Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that there are in principle X young people who could qualify for that entitlement — that information is available from the census — but their choice whether or when to exercise it is not predictable . |
| 2 | In fact , the 1992 Green Paper explicitly recognizes ( p. 27 ) that under a prohibition system in the case of price leadership or parallel pricing it is ‘ unlikely that breach of the prohibition would be established in the absence of anti-competitive behaviour ’ . |
| 3 | We also had to settle in at the new apartment , which I 'm very impressed by ( and only hope it 's a long let , but I 'm scatterbrained about such things and leave all that to Tod ) . |
| 4 | You know , I mean I ca n't imagine anybody coming round and not thinking it 's lovely cos you 've got it spot on ! |
| 5 | But the choice between that and not having it is easy . |
| 6 | Lloyds has made a clandestine but vigorous pass at Midland and still thinks it is in with a chance and can outbid Hongkong if it can make savings through ruthless high street rationalisation — in effect , putting two banks ' business through one 's network . |
| 7 | Lady Bertram , on the other hand , feels that she has a fortunate marriage due to this reason of her beauty and also considers it is every woman 's obligation to show off her looks . |
| 8 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 9 | British Telecommunications Plc 's Customer Systems division — ‘ the largest UK systems house that no-one 's ever heard of ’ — has spent the past three years restructuring and now reckons it is set to take the world by storm . |
| 10 | Rehabilitated and well furbished it is now the pride of the waterfront . |
| 11 | what 's happening is that the membership handbook should have been out last week but I think it 's actually going out physically today and I 've done a reminder which 'll be mailed out with it erm making one or two little pointed remarks about blah blah blah this is a very important event and please note it is not in Edinburgh you know erm S S K are very supportive of us we should you know take advantage of this very important |
| 12 | and then reached it 's destination in America . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's the baiting … calling me upstairs when he 's down , and down when he 's up … and then thinking it 's a bit of … a joke … and that kind of thing . ’ |
| 14 | And then look it 's not |
| 15 | According to Greenpeace activist Joe Thornton , " using oil to make a tyre and then burning it is not an efficient use of resources " . |
| 16 | He described first ‘ foreground factors ’ ; these include how long people have lived in an area and how settled it is ; how close people are physically ; and the age and stage in the life cycle and gender : Abrams comments that : |
| 17 | It can be called the logical problem , and briefly expressed it is this : in general , what are the premisses or grounds or bases for dependent conditionals ? |
| 18 | But generally speaking it 's three times the pension . |
| 19 | The 1693 quarto is loosely described as the ‘ second edition ’ , but strictly speaking it is a reissue of Q1692 : sheets remaining from the original print-run , spruced up for sale after a decent interval . |
| 20 | Sam West explains how he disliked his own performance at first , but now realises it 's a special film . |
| 21 | What the Russians thought of their rough but kindly guide it is impossible to say ; but he grinned , and exclaimed in amazement as he tried in vain , with a stumpy pencil to get a list of their names , and then sympathetically remarked , as he looked at their wan faces , ‘ There is no wonder at the chaps being ill ; even their names is all coughs and sneezes ’ . |
| 22 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 23 | But even playing it is a real worry ; I think I 'd only do it if I had my band playing live , the way I do it now . |
| 24 | In its undigested state , this voluminous competitor information , 90 per cent of which is publicly available , may be vaguely interesting and occasionally intriguing , but however glittering it is essentially an unusable and potentially dangerous resource . |