Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure this happens , but I do n't know that it is any more so than for most other serious books , including the Bible and Shakespeare . |
| 2 | It was the day after the barbecue and Sara was reminded that it was here yesterday she had met Matthew . |
| 3 | A report by the West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit demonstrated that it was not only residents who ran the risk of exploitation , but also the staff . |
| 4 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 5 | Simultaneously , Boardrooms across the USA began to accept that it was not always possible or desirable to rely entirely upon home-grown talent , and that managers and executives could be interchangeable between apparently quite different types of business . |
| 6 | It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all . |
| 7 | However , he should recognise that it is not just the consumer who responds to ‘ market forces ’ . |
| 8 | Even this affects church life , as I shall show , but we must recognise that it is not only rank hedonism that flourishes under private banners . |
| 9 | A wag in the crowd quipped that it is so long since they have been in evidence , police enquiries are being hampered because no one can name or describe them . |
| 10 | It should never be forgotten that it is not only by using trusts or companies in tax havens that fiscal advantages may be obtained . |
| 11 | Taken in with his bottle of National Dried Milk and vitamin drops that it was all right to kill . |
| 12 | Laing could have added that it is also now a company that employs tens of thousands of people and produces a phenomenal amount of food snacks . |
| 13 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 14 | When will ordinary people realise that it 's not just god bands that put out records . |
| 15 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 16 | I realise that it 's not only an illness , I suppose , but it 's quite selfish in a way . |
| 17 | Of course ten billion is an enormous number of people , but it does n't seem quite so alarming a figure when you realise that it 's only twice the current population of the world . |
| 18 | Before sunrise I had the good fortune to discover that it was no longer necessary to maintain the horizontal posture , and came out on deck at two o'clock in the morning to see a noble full moon sinking westward and millions of the most brilliant stars shining overhead . |
| 19 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 20 | Cool waxing is said to be quickest , but advocates of hot wax say that it is much more efficient . |
| 21 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 22 | In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff . |
| 23 | However it was a question of fact for the Crown Court , which was entitled to find that it was not so practicable . |
| 24 | He told a Labour Co-ordinating Committee rally that it was not enough for Labour to win the next election . |
| 25 | Morag and Granny started on this job right away but they soon found that it was n't as easy as it looked . |
| 26 | But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with . |
| 27 | Brown and Harris found that it was not only discrete events which could provoke depression . |
| 28 | The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training . |
| 29 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 30 | In the opening decades of the 19th century Glasgow woke up and found that it was no longer an ancient market place reached by tree-lined avenues . |