Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the same proposal , associated with the Port Royal grammar and earlier versions of Chomskyan grammar , which has already been mentioned in this chapter in connexion with prenominal attributives ( 3.2 and 3.3 ) ; or rather it is part of the same proposal , since the full clause with adjective in post-copular position is claimed as the " origin " for both sorts of attributive . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it 's sort of some dressed up character . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it was kind of Alan . |
| 4 | Knowing the meaning of ‘ It is daytime on Mars ’ they have used an argument from analogy to settle a question of fact , the question whether or not it is daytime on Mars . |
| 5 | What I 'm trying to understand you 'll appreciate Mr , is the difference between the test that you are putting forward , er which is whether or not it is part of a built-up area , and the test that Mr is putting forward , whether or not the land is part of the village . |
| 6 | All elections in two-party parliamentary systems are essentially about whether or not it is time for a change . |
| 7 | And everyone knew that now it was time for Madame 's famous song . |
| 8 | And so it 's Peter from ? |
| 9 | Erm and so it was sort of going to the corner shop and buying what they could , er when they had the money , and sometimes they would borrow money from somebody whose benefit came on a different day . |
| 10 | Arthur Cox 's admiration for John Fashanu is well known , and perhaps it is time for the Maxwell millions to be used to purchase just such a battering Ram . |
| 11 | We were nearly a mile and a quarter out , the set was another quarter away from us , and already it was fleecy at the top , throwing up spray a hundred yards in the air . |
| 12 | At one time , IBM Corp 's shares regularly got so heavy that the company would split them to make them more marketable , a move that usually tends to increase the value of a company in the market : those days are long gone for IBM , and now it 's upstarts like Intel Corp that are able to flex their financial muscles : its board has approved a two-for-one split , and shareholders will vote on the proposal on May 5 . |
| 13 | Ted ought to have been there years ago , he said , and now it 's time for Margaret to be elevated . |
| 14 | ‘ He was n't , ’ said my mother , perhaps because she had concurred for too long and now it was time for contradiction . |
| 15 | We promised you more of that Hudson Hawk map , and here it is courtesy of David Pitchforth . |
| 16 | And er yo you get the impression that it 's late in the day , the sky 's a bit stormy and maybe it 's time to be thinking about er getting home and er I get the impression that that person climbing over the stile is sort of on his way home after having a super day out walking in the the Yorkshire Dales or somewhere like that . |
| 17 | When you heard me I was imagining a process whereby you 'd have a strategic sites policy in the structure plan which would enable a local authority in preparing its local plan if it wished to identify a strategic site and that would then become in the local plan , you know subject to all those consultation processes , and then it 's part of the portfolio that is available in the published arena with a statutory framework behind it . |
| 18 | and then it 's sort of joined together onto another branch and then there 's a branch there . |
| 19 | Coffee was next , and then it was time for the bill . |
| 20 | And then it was thanks for the drinks and time to get back as another gang of wallies was booked in for one o'clock . |
| 21 | So if I can open the meeting by saying that we obviously welcome questions this evening and points of view and I would like to open the meeting by asking quite clearly about how you er see best plan for the theat theatre in future and how it 's programme of facilities for the future should be programmed and planned . |
| 22 | so , every now and again it was sort of , it would sort of flash and say the server was being accessed and sort of brrp it was gone . |
| 23 | Well it 's certainly clear that some of the companies , for instance Cliffhanger , which have grown in Brighton and developed Brighton as a base , are not just immensely popular within Brighton , but also very popular when we take them out on tour , or when they offer their services to other venues in other parts of East Sussex or Kent , and this is equally true of some of the community orientated groups , some of the musicians and artists who live and work primarily in Brighton erm their talent is readily appreciable throughout the region and therefore it 's part of our tactics to talk to artists who are operating in the Brighton area and see whether they 're willing or interested in taking some of their work out to other parts of the region . |
| 24 | Not everyone has the same tastes , remember — some people do n't like reading long text messages like those in Nythyhel , but perhaps it 's time for another game with a strong storyline . |
| 25 | Exactly , but also it was food for them . |
| 26 | But now it 's sort of , well no it 's based very much on American sort of New York |
| 27 | ‘ I 've voted Conservative all my life , but now it 's time for a change . ’ |
| 28 | You 've always been a bit of a soft touch , but now it 's time to wise up and tell those around you that enough is enough . |
| 29 | But now it was time for some wheeling and dealing . |
| 30 | We will return to Royston for a while but then it 's Scotland for me and France for you . |