Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It may be that the only times the parents show joint concern is when the child misbehaves and so the child continues to be difficult as it keeps the family together . |
| 32 | Nobody expected it to be competitive but it had been thought that any team serious enough to build and enter a grand prix car should be competent enough to make it last more than five consecutive laps . |
| 33 | My Lords , may I ask my Noble Friend if it would n't be better really to lease the land for a period of time , perhaps long enough for the anguish felt about the cost of the library as it currently stands and when perhaps more optimistic views could be entertained , because the piece of land it 's on is not going to be recoverable once it 's sold . |
| 34 | Imre Szász , a large , solid-framed man , pointed out to me that in Hungary the Budapest accent was , for a long time , held to be inferior because it had been debased by non-Magyar and , in particular , Jewish elements , whereas the country accents were all perfectly acceptable . |
| 35 | To answer this question it must be noted that in sociology ( and elsewhere ) a feminist perspective appears to be polemical because it runs counter to the accepted male-oriented viewpoint — a viewpoint which is rarely explicitly articulated . |
| 36 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 37 | Now how a man who works on can think there 's anything funny about species I just ca n't understand erm but there it is. erm well , suppose , however , that in my view wrongly one did suppose that there was something erm in this sort of idea of the decoupling between the processes which we observed in single populations and erm the sort of mechanisms leading to large scale evolution , what kinds of processes are held to be important when it comes to large scale evolution events ? |
| 38 | I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away . |
| 39 | But it would be idle to pretend that there were not frivolous appeals and attempts by parties to delay and frustrate justice and to be obstructive if it suited them , when litigants learned how to " play " the courts to their advantage . |
| 40 | You 'll have to be careful when it comes to choosing a wife . |
| 41 | I ask the House to be careful when it has one of its own Members in its charge . |
| 42 | Barthes is here influenced , no doubt , by the founder of deconstruction , Jacques Derrida , who argued that contrary to the traditional view that speech is the exemplary case of language in use , and writing an artificial substitute for speech , writing ought to be privileged because it exposes the fallacious metaphysics of presence , of the autonomy of the subject , which speech encourages . |
| 43 | He vacillates between describing the connection between creativity and psychosis as ‘ folk-loristic ’ and ‘ clearly exaggerated ’ , and confessing to be puzzled that it has been documented so often . |