Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 2 | After the meeting the FRUD announced that it was quite prepared to open a dialogue on the basis of an immediate bilateral ceasefire and reforms announced by Gouled Aptidon . |
| 3 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 4 | 4.13 Management should continuously review the procedures for the delivery and/or collection of money to see if it is absolutely necessary and whether there are alternative methods available . |
| 5 | Analyses of voting patterns revealed that it was primarily the racist demagoguery against foreign nationals living in West Germany that accounted for the party 's victories . |
| 6 | Apple Computer Inc says it is still on target for mid-1994 launch of its first RISC-based Macintosh after IBM Corp announced that it was now shipping the first PowerPC chips to Apple . |
| 7 | But experts say unless it is carefully controlled , the fish stocks and entire eco-system could be affected . |
| 8 | The 1377 poll-tax returns suggest that it was over three times the size of the largest provincial centres , Bristol and York , almost five times that of Coventry and six times that of Norwich ( 104 , p.1 ) . |
| 9 | Despite this , Mazzin maintained that it was still a local feud . |
| 10 | ( Note that here and elsewhere in the book , underlined stretches of talk mean that it is phonologically and/or grammatically marked as " Creole " . ) |
| 11 | Contrary to some of the conclusions drawn from social scientific research suggesting that it is primarily home or family backgrounds that determines the level of educational performance , Edmonds proceeds to identify those characteristics of effective schools delivering marked improvements in children 's educational achievements . |
| 12 | Separately yesterday , the Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was not referring the proposed acquisition by EFM Dragon Trust of Drayton Asia Trust . |
| 13 | Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ? |
| 14 | The the reconciliations suggesting that it was n't a good stock take . |
| 15 | Later metabolic studies of methotrexate revealed that it is virtually without effect in the rabbit because of a metabolic peculiarity . |
| 16 | In a statement issued on Jan. 24 the SLA announced that it was fully prepared to extend the zone " for the imperatives of security " . |
| 17 | But even in democratic societies knowledge of the past changes as historical scholarship develops and it is often found that the official record of the time under study contains errors or even deliberate falsification . |
| 18 | Taken in with his bottle of National Dried Milk and vitamin drops that it was all right to kill . |
| 19 | What should have been a simple review looked like it was about to turn into techno-confusion when the owner 's manual stated I could find a hook-up diagram on page 42 , and it was n't there . |
| 20 | He showed that it was harmless to white blood cells , which are a principal defence against invading microbes , and he and Craddock administered enough to animals to discover that it was remarkably innocuous . |
| 21 | It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all . |
| 22 | Koons says that it is exactly this childlike aspect that makes her vulnerable to the tacky mandarins of the porn industry , whom Koons loathes , despite the mountain of mad flesh in Made in Heaven . |
| 23 | It was in 1984 , when Kylie was still only 16 , that her next big break came and it was again Alan Hardy , the man who had cast her in The Sullivans three years before , who was involved . |
| 24 | What do you do at the end of the winter time and er spring arrives and it 's too warm for the electric blanket . |
| 25 | ( The third effect should strictly speaking be regarded as a substitute for the first since it assumes a zero , or at least a very low , interest elasticity of the demand for money whereas the Keynes effect assumes that it is reasonably powerful . ) |
| 26 | The authors conclude that it is more likely that many other factors should also be included in the analysis such as motivation , nicotine dependence , personality type , self-efficacy , therapeutic support , etc , which act together in a complex way and would substantially increase the explained variance of smoking cessation . |
| 27 | The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down . |
| 28 | Aunt Bella says that it 's more economical to buy like that , but I know it 's because she 's afraid . |
| 29 | Firms are less likely to set profit-maximising prices for their products when faced with rising raw material prices and labour costs as it is more difficult for them to estimate their expected revenues and costs . |
| 30 | Pointing out difficulties is a very common behaviour but is one of the riskier ones because research shows that it is far from certain how people will take it . |