Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vision comes alive only when it is shared . |
| 2 | Time after time Nizan hammered out his basic message : the internal logic of fascism is rearmament leading to war ; the only way to prevent the catastrophe of a world-wide conflict is the creation of a potent counterbalancing force expressly designed to curb the expansionist tendencies of fascist nation states ; peace will be possible only if it is guaranteed by an effective network of alliances forged between civilised , peace-loving nations such as France , Great Britain and , above all , the USSR . |
| 3 | A great flood in 1786 washed this away and it was followed by a bridge of 13 arches . |
| 4 | I wanted the garment to seem feminine even though it is made out of a yarn as heavy and warm as pure wool . |
| 5 | ‘ I found this today and it 's revived a memory . ’ |
| 6 | This makes the Scottish footwork look very light and easy particularly as it is allied to the steps of petit and grand allegro he also used . |
| 7 | The long-term trend towards greater equality of income and wealth has been reversed under the Conservative governments of 1979 onwards and it is argued that this ‘ strategy of inequality ’ ( Child Poverty Action Group ) , which is seen as a direct consequence of the drive towards popular capitalism , has led to a major increase in poverty in the UK and to the possible emergence of an underclass , who lack any stake in popular capitalism and who are caught in the dependency culture . |
| 8 | SHARES in security specialist Gardiner Group plunged to a new low yesterday after it was revealed that assets worth £3.5m have gone astray . |
| 9 | Richard Smith 's editorial seems merely to echo Kay 's views ; both articles include a reference to Jewett et al 's report , which was discredited as flawed soon after it was published . |
| 10 | It 's very cold here and it is getting late . |
| 11 | Our folk up at Dalvaine and that , they spoke the Gaelic long after it was spoken down the glen . |
| 12 | An action does not become good simply because it is motivated by a good will , or by the right kind of ‘ thinking ’ , at least not in international relations . |
| 13 | Is a living creature rhythmic wholly because it is driven by a rhythmic environment and life-style ? |
| 14 | The response of the North was to suggest that Roh 's gesture would be considered sincere only if it was accompanied by the removal of certain border defences and the abolition of the National Security Law . |
| 15 | In 1985 however , the Law Commission did recommend that a marriage entered into by a man or woman domiciled in England and Wales should not be invalid merely because it is entered into under a law which permits polygamy , provided that neither party is already married . |
| 16 | By 1914 the terms of a possible compromise were emerging , by which Unionists would accept Home Rule and Liberals would agree to exclude Ulster ; argument continued over the exact size of an excluded Ulster and the length of time involved in exclusion , but the logic of the negotiations pointed to this settlement in 1914 just as it was to do in 1921–22 . |
| 17 | GREENE 'S '50s novel of a naively evil American agent in Indo-China and the cynical English hack who befriends him has been timely ever since it was published . |
| 18 | Community law itself clearly claims to override the constitutional arrangements of a Member State : ‘ The validity of a Community measure or its effect within a Member State remains unimpaired even if it is alleged that it runs counter to either fundamental rights as formulated by the Constitution of that State or the principles of a national constitutional structure ’ ( Internationale Handelsgesellschaft v. Einfuhr und Vorratsstelle Getreide ) . |
| 19 | The inter-war German democracy was precarious precisely because it was grafted on to a social order that had failed to create the very basic social and political conditions that would allow a democratic system to flourish , but also because while German expansion in the east had been halted , the drive to the east was still seen as a tantalising solution to all of Germany 's problems . |
| 20 | His basic idea was to empty arteries and veins of their blood and replace it by something ‘ fluid enough when it is injected to run into the branches of the vessels , will afterwards quickly grow hard ’ . |
| 21 | Unfortunately this legislation has proved to be totally ineffective both as it was drafted and as it has been put into practice . |
| 22 | But the Belfast and Edinburgh situations are abnormal and irregular only if it is assumed that the patterns revealed in the New York City study are the normal and regular ones , and that Labov 's findings on the structure of that speech community are universally applicable . |
| 23 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 24 | The Stedelijk 's Barnett Newman , worth DFl. 5.4 million just before it was vandalised in 1986 , is now said to be worthless . |
| 25 | ‘ It is a drug used in medicine since 1935 and its serious side-effects are rare even when it is prescribed at high concentrations for long periods . |
| 26 | Can I ask would that seriously if it were limited or by virtue of the panel report having identified this problem we reported that we saw a problem if it included B eight , would that be a problem from the point of view either Harrogate or Selby if B eight was in effect , if not in the policy itself , excluded ? |
| 27 | Another close relative , acetylsalicylic acid , i.e. aspirin , was active only if it was broken down to release salicylic acid . |
| 28 | Shaking violently in the intolerable hold of a passion as bitter as it was irresistible and torrid , she looked up at the man who had done this to her , his body before and above her , glistening and dark , darker still where it was shadowed with hair . |
| 29 | Developments the other side of the globe meant that the B-70 was becoming obsolete even before it was built . |
| 30 | Imagine working with plant that was obsolete even before it was installed in the 1940s . |