Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone believes that it is raining , or that the knave stole the tarts , there is either a state of affairs such as he believes in or there is not , and his belief , and the statement which expresses it , is true or false ; accordingly . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the document was still consulted in the early thirteenth century , which shows that it was regarded as an important statement of custom . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , it was here long before us , sir , although there 's plenty asks if it 's called after our Mary . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 5 | It is entirely land-locked , which means that it is bordered in all directions by other countries — Zambia , Zimbabwe , Namibia and South Africa . |
| 6 | Some say that the breed originated in Wales from a cross between local cattle at Castle Farm in Brecon with Castlemartins from Pembrokeshire , which means that it is related to neighbouring Glamorgan , Gloucester and Welsh Black breeds . |
| 7 | And it is the fact of being the written form which means that it is used not only in Britain but by all writers of English throughout the world , with remarkably little variation . |
| 8 | A simple combination of a selected focus with one of the modes of argument outlined above would be an essay with a focus on Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man [ focus ( ii ) ] , which argues that it is underrated as a novel and indicates why it should be seen as a greater achievement [ mode of argument ( a ) ] . |
| 9 | In the academic world there is a feeling that nothing exists until it is written down . |
| 10 | She says that it 's made a great difference , the swan can now struggle to it 's feet . |
| 11 | She says that it was spinning in the road . |
| 12 | When one takes a longer-run view of the monopoly situation , one sees that it was won by competition , and that it represents , as such ( and as far as it goes ) a step forward in the entrepreneurial process of the market . |
| 13 | One suspects that it is to demonstrate what the attractions of the famous Museum Island will be when the plan favoured by the Berlin museums supremo Dube but hotly contested by many museum professionals comes to fruition , for Dube has decided that the island is to be dedicated entirely to these archaeological collections , while the fine arts all move over to the western side of the city to more modern museums . |
| 14 | but everybody thinks that it 's gon na be easy |
| 15 | When the ark is sent for , he remarks that it is accompanied on its journey to the Israelite camp by Hophni and Phinehas . |
| 16 | I 'm not being facile , but we came from the sea , we 've dumped on it for years and it looks like it 's getting its own back . |
| 17 | He 's got to work this one out for himself sooner or later , and it looks like it 's going to be sooner . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It looks like it 's going to be a record , ’ said group MD Tony Salem . |
| 19 | It looks like it 's going to be difficult to shrug this one off , picking at the racist scab was never going to do anyone any good , quiffy boy . |
| 20 | assistants are in doubt It looks like it 's going to be group supply in here . |
| 21 | . But they choose their own stories so you And if you , it looks like it 's going to be an exceedingly long story you can |
| 22 | yeah , if it is sunny , I was gon na chuck curtains in there so I mean it looks like it 's gon na , five year old |
| 23 | Yeah , but it looks like it 's gon na be good some of them |
| 24 | Royal watcher Margaret Holder said : ‘ It looks like it is going to be an unhappy time for the Queen and everyone else . |
| 25 | ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots . |
| 26 | ‘ It looks like it was made in someone 's front room instead of in the open air in front of thousands of people . |
| 27 | He says that it is recorded in the that on the death of Molla Fenari , Molla Yegan was authorized to give fetvas in the time of Murad II ; but that since he did not actually rise to the office of Mufti — the actual words used are " the rank of the glorious office of fetva " , fetva being used here , a — often , to indicate the Muftilik-he will not be singled out and accorded special mention . |
| 28 | He says that it 's using plane 's controls in a different way , and flying close to the ground which creates excitement . |
| 29 | He says that it 's worked well . |
| 30 | He says that it 's doing the business no good at all . |