Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] [adv] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you if if you think about a country of song you might think of Wales , but anybody visiting Ireland will know that it 's really Ireland 's got to be a country of song because if you go there you 've got to sing . |
| 2 | The second limitation is that it is only occam processes that may be transformed : the laws do not apply to guarded processes or conditionals , even when they have the same syntax as processes . |
| 3 | Does the Minister think that it is now time to implement the proposals in the report ’ Escaping the Debt Trap ’ to introduce social loans , to take more stringent action against loan sharks who exploit poor people by their extortionate interest rates and to encourage a more responsible lending policy by banks ? |
| 4 | Crucially , it would be premature to conclude , on the basis of the lack of vociferous support for the welfare state in recent years , that it is now time to jettison what Pinker ( 1993 ) has termed the unitarist approach to welfare . |
| 5 | Weightlessness apparently does no great harm , so President George Bush says that it is now time to send people to Mars . |
| 6 | Kay 's article also suggests , however , that it is now time to consider regulating the conduct of doctors who repeatedly fail to maintain adequate professional standards . |
| 7 | We think that it is now time to review past demonstrations and to decide on the next steps . |
| 8 | Last year we dealt with 16 different local authorities so it is very time consuming . ’ |
| 9 | I 've barely had time to wipe the blood off my axe after my last battle and it 's already time to hack my way through the next trail ! |
| 10 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 11 | In November , details were given regarding the season to date and it is now time to update to the midwinter break . |
| 12 | Bank of Ireland has made significant cost savings with the introduction of Bank Assistants and it is now time to redistribute some of those savings amongst those who most deserve it . |
| 13 | I introduced them briefly in Chapter 6 and it is now time to consider them more closely . |
| 14 | It is this creative extendability of the linguistic code that we had in mind in the earlier discussion of deviation and foregrounding ( see 1.4. ) and to which we shall return in 4.6 ; but it is now time to recognize that these are relative , not absolute concepts . |
| 15 | The time has wandered on to 11.15 pm and the only person that the august gathering has heard is the MC , but it is now time to introduce the first speaker , who needs little or no introduction . |
| 16 | I regard arms races as of the utmost importance because it is largely arms races that have injected such ‘ progressiveness ’ as there is in evolution . |
| 17 | They consider that it may be demeaning for a client to be ‘ helped ’ by a volunteer ; they consider that a person working for no pay is being exploited ; and they feel that volunteering confirms a sexist role model because it is mainly women supported by wage-earning husbands who volunteer . |
| 18 | Southern Comfort is a remarkable 75p , whereas it 's only 85p to buy ‘ Pills ’ . |
| 19 | Completely all-over patterning would certainly not be practical if you are making garments for sale as it is fairly time consuming , but ‘ at random ’ or in a close group they are splendidly spectacular and make a wonderful splash of colour and pattern . |