Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even th your chief supporter , the T N A , on September the nineteenth agreed that it was far better , it was far better to use the untapped human resource than to load the ca th the cost on to the community charge payer . |
| 2 | This declined until it was only 2,146 last year . |
| 3 | But you see there was always this thought that it was always to better yourself that you were doing this that your Orcadian was just for home about and among yourselves and what it did n't really matter . |
| 4 | Although many commented that it was too early in the session to form definite views , nearly two-thirds of respondents said they thought the additional assessment was an appropriate assessment method . |
| 5 | However , 11 stated that it was poorly written , and all but one of those 11 rewrote the passage so as to make it conform to Hankamer & Sag 's parallelism condition — some changed the antecedent from are critical of to criticize , others changed the form of the ellipses ( e.g. … anyone who is … ) or eliminated it ( e.g. … anyone who was openly critical … ) . |
| 6 | At the time , many questioned whether it is really possible to make a marriage work after such a short period . |
| 7 | An advertisement for a china-clay pit in 1817 stressed that it was only 3 miles from the purpose-built clay port of Charlestown . |
| 8 | The outbreak of war with the Ottoman Empire in October 1768 led to the suspension of its work ; and the explosion of the great peasant and Cossack revolt led by Pugachev in June 1773 ensured that it was not reconvened . |
| 9 | You indicated to me when we last met that it was n't . ’ |
| 10 | Both believed that it was too locally various and too unsystematically administered at the local level . |
| 11 | Aircraft landing at LG 05 were seen and a recce of LG 121 confirmed that it was only used as a decoy at night . |