Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] [conj] it is " in BNC.

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1 It uses them to turn over stones when it is looking for food .
2 Some manufacturers could come up trumps and it is regrettable that we do not know the name of the supplier of a truly splendid set of stamped gilt copper grip-plates with integral coronets and a trinity of really charming chinoiserie bells on the 1777 coffin of the Second Earl De La Warr at Withyam , Sussex .
3 To give up hope is to give up life before it is taken away .
4 ‘ There 's no point in stirring up scandal if it is n't necessary . ’
5 You will not have to record every tiny thing you eat or work out calories but it is important that each day you weigh yourself if you possibly can .
6 You ca n't draw out cash if it is n't there .
7 Old people , perhaps mentally infirm , who spit out food when it is given , or who lose the capacity to eat tidily and whose bowel and bladder functioning is impaired , may rouse deep feelings of revulsion in carers , of which they were quite unaware until confronted with the behaviour .
8 The legal defence was that a civil servant can pass on information if it is in the interests of the state so to do .
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