Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be stressed that it is not nearness to industry per se which drew agricultural wages upwards , but proximity to the expanding newer industrial regions . |
| 2 | See I do n't know if it 's just part real or if he 's just trying to frighten me . |
| 3 | A closer look and I realized that it was not fog but smoke , and very thick at that . |
| 4 | She realized that it was not shame that made it cower , but further fear . |
| 5 | Does the Minister think that it is now time to implement the proposals in the report ’ Escaping the Debt Trap ’ to introduce social loans , to take more stringent action against loan sharks who exploit poor people by their extortionate interest rates and to encourage a more responsible lending policy by banks ? |
| 6 | Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips . |
| 7 | And this time no one will even try to pretend that it is n't murder . ’ |
| 8 | Two weeks ago I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that it was now time for the Church Militant to denounce antibiotics in the same uncompromising terms once used against usury , but I suspect my advice ( admittedly unsolicited ) will go the same way as the seed of Onan . |
| 9 | Leith knew then , when her mother began , ‘ Is n't it exciting ? ’ that she was wasting her time expecting her to agree that it was about time Sebastian got his act together . |
| 10 | Weightlessness apparently does no great harm , so President George Bush says that it is now time to send people to Mars . |
| 11 | Glancing at his watch , Major Tzann noted that it was almost time for the briefing . |
| 12 | Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision . |
| 13 | ‘ They are getting as good prices as the fishermen in this country but our fishermen , although perhaps disappointed at price levels , know how to behave and it is about time the Frenchmen took a leaf out of their book . ’ |
| 14 | AMALVY/AFP Fisherman 's fury : A French trawlerman hurls a fish towards riot police during the clashes in Paris yesterday ‘ Our fishermen know how to behave and it is about time the Frenchmen took a leaf out of their book ’ |
| 15 | Er I 'd want to be seen if it were only back of , back of |
| 16 | Like , you could n't have pianos or sax because it was n't hardcore . ’ |
| 17 | By further describing it as a ritual , the author might be taken to suggest that it was also part of an ongoing practice governed by unalterable rules . |
| 18 | Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity . |
| 19 | Well she said do n't touch that it was now mine . |
| 20 | I remember a terrific noise in the night , and thinking that a submarine must have got through after all , dashed into Pop 's cabin to be told that it was only coal being poured into the bunkers below decks ! |
| 21 | I I would have put the apostrophe between the l and the s , but erm , I 'd be prepared to , I 'd be persuaded that it was n't crystal clear . |
| 22 | She could only stand and stare spellbound a little when he replied that it was n't smoke , but vapour from the warm stream that ran through the town . |
| 23 | Our manager replied that it was not company policy to divulge personal details of employees ( mad joggers or not ! ) and that if she wanted to take it further , she should write in . |
| 24 | It is widely recognised that it is not production of food but the low level of demand for food that is the problem for many and for varied reasons related to the forces and relations of production in which people are involved . |
| 25 | But I have to admit that in the past I have been offended by people saying that it 's just formula for me to play melodies and structures that come to me very naturally . |
| 26 | I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ . |
| 27 | He was in this office a fortnight ago saying that it was about time as his father was getting on and one never knew , et cetera et cetera … |
| 28 | In this way the lawyer has a part to play within political movements , such as the peace movement , while acknowledging that it is not law alone that can bring about the changes we desire , but it is that movement as a whole that can and must do so . |
| 29 | I am told by the probation service , social workers , educationists , and those involved in the youth offenders institute in my constituency that the turning point comes in the late teens , when such offenders get a regular girl friend and decide that it is about time that they acted a little more responsibly . |
| 30 | And if it is n't honey , the absence of that taste will cause Pooh to believe that it is n't honey . |