Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Although Labour promises more generous rebates , no one believes it , because the proposal has not been costed , no details of it are available and no money would be made available . |
2 | Now , parts of it are inaccessible and the tennis court is a chicken run . |
3 | Yet 18 months after its signing , and set against the political and economic backdrop of today 's Europe , the dangers of persisting with it are smaller than the dangers of scuttling it . |
4 | Would n't it be refreshing if a new course were opened which simply claimed to be a lovely place for club players to play but that it would n't really test the pros . |
5 | ‘ Would n't it be awful if a cat scratched your heart . ’ |
6 | As Haslemere has already begun to make the town accessible for wheelchair-bound people , would n't it be nice if the town could become totally accessible for both able bodied and disabled people . |
7 | On the plus side , would n't it be nice if the clients were helped to look ahead and did n't go on lurching from legal hitch to last-minute legal hitch ? |
8 | ‘ I wish it were true that the fund will continue to grow , but we are at the mercy of the markets , and we must keep a healthy capital amount for all needy old soldiers down on their luck . |
9 | Even if it were true that the war is over and the Serbs have won , victory will not bring stability to Bosnia & Hercegovina . |
10 | Even if it were true that the Tsar was long dead , as people said , Abie knew that no army ever gave up the hunt for a deserter . |
11 | Secondly ( as was pointed out by Russell , among others ) , even if it were true that the number of basic entities was finite , the proposed analysis still would not yield the desired result . |
12 | If it were true that the private sector uses resources more productively than the public sector , the transfer of resources might directly produce more output . |
13 | If it were clear when a party has formed an intention to incur legal obligation , if a person did commonly define the obligation he desired to assume in terms which left little doubt as to its nature , it would be unnecessary , and indeed merely foolish , to require an additional test of that intention . |
14 | The extra detail visible in the monkey 's brain might just be a consequence of it being bigger than the rat 's , but a comparison between the somatosensory cortices of the two animals shows that this is n't so , for this time it is in the rat that the extra detail is visible . |
15 | and Schiemann J. , and in the latter by Hoffmann J. The W. H. Smith case took the form of an appeal to the Divisional Court from the Crown Court , by way of case stated , against the conviction of the two defendant stores for Sunday trading ; the Torfaen decision was published after the hearing before the Crown Court and before the hearing before the Divisional Court and , it being plain that the Crown Court had misdirected itself on the effect of article 30 , the Divisional Court quashed the convictions . |
16 | Like many questions which the police were obliged to put , these were a formality , it being clear that the bargeowners could n't answer them . |
17 | He shouted to his riders , at least those near enough to hear , to try not to ride down any mounted men in their way , as those would likely be their own folk , it being improbable that the enemy would have been able to catch any of the fleeing horses . |
18 | It 's curious that the Bloch Symphony for trombone and orchestra is rarely played — one would have thought that trombonists , starved of repertoire , would air it at every opportunity . |
19 | It 's six and a half minutes to six . |
20 | It 's fantastic that the boy is back . ’ |
21 | ‘ It 's bigger than the one we 've got , ’ said his Mum . |
22 | Yeah you see it 's bigger cos the bedroom |
23 | It 's freezing and the pitch is rock hard . |
24 | But it 's due and the farm accounts wo n't take it . |
25 | Fifth thought : shit , this is the turret of the Cathedral ; and it 's dark because it 's late and the floods have gone off . |
26 | It 's higher than the one I had because erm the base is obviously I just had the springs going across did n't I ? |
27 | I 'll go and make the sauce , then I 'll have a bath while it 's simmering if the generator 's up to it . ’ |
28 | It 's straightforward and the offending cyst is easily removed . |
29 | And the early reading of P P G seven it seems to me it 's apparent that the principle messages are that the development in open countryside should be strictly controlled , and I would underline that point strictly controlled , and that the countryside should be safeguarded for its own sake and non-renewable and natural resources should be afforded protection . |
30 | it was all to do with recognising it was the middle of the winter , sun was at it 's lowest and the sun would be coming back again , and maybe that 's some sort of gut feeling |