Example sentences of "[vb infin] it is [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a bird does not entail It is adapted for flight |
| 2 | Read the old sagas and there you will see it is thought of as a great living force . |
| 3 | That such care may well characterize those activities which Scruton declares can not possess it is suggested by Andrew Lumsden 's appropriately passing remark on the casual , anonymous sexual encounter : ‘ for now I can only generalize : as I 've known it , men are never so peaceful , so unviolent ( physically and emotionally ) , so graceful with each other ( no matter how ‘ crude' ’ the act ) as they are — as we are — when content to take each other without the addition of names , or beds , or flats , or even of any clear impression of one-another 's looks ' ( Gay News , 235 ( Mar. 1982 ) , 17 ) . |
| 4 | But Paramo are so confident in the suit they 'll give you your money back if you can prove it is out-performed by any of the other breathable waterproofs which are now on the market . |
| 5 | Any discovery which later may threaten it is rejected by one 's mental defences and could upset the balance of the mind . |
| 6 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |