Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It 's been done up you see , it 's been altered and it 's now the community centre they call it is it not Nana ?
2 A man stays in line because he has been taught that it is wrong not to .
3 The nature of the obligation is simply that of an obligation to repay money which has been received and it is neither necessary nor logical , simply because the conditions of repayment relate to the performance of covenants in a lease , that the transfer of the reversion should create in the transferee an additional and co-extensive obligation to pay money which he has never received and in which he never had any interest or that the assignment of the term should vest in the assignee the right to receive a sum which he has never paid …
4 It is very important to keep on happy and good terms with the family that are living and it is extremely sad when the death of a parent who loved all the children should be an unwitting source of family rifts .
5 The Secretary of State 's authority on this matter has been accepted , not out of docility or in the belief that the Secretary of State for Scotland is infallible in curriculum matters : it has been accepted because it is very obviously based on a clear national consensus .
6 of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm
7 Okay , so the gradient which shows you how fast they 're going If it 's more or less horizontal , they 're still .
8 We 're told that it is not a commercial fish to breed in large numbers and that it is species more suited for the specialist or advanced hobbyist .
9 People always think we ignore them when they 're waiting but it is n't really like that .
10 I think , I think in fact you 're , you 're not having the problems that we 're having where it 's very difficult so you 've got er a really nice representation but have n't quite gone far enough .
11 Editing a program you like is fine if you know what you 're doing but it 's too easy to spend hours fiddling with the EQ to get the distortion to sound just so , when getting the right room size is the element that makes the sound .
12 By this time next month we 're just about at the solstice we 're find that it 's not getting light until about seven o'clock in the morning and it 's getting dark again by about half past three .
13 I would have thought that was a more likely erm But er we 're obviously we 're speculating and it 's perhaps
14 And I am told that it is not advisable to use the same batch of acid for etching copper as has been used for etching zinc because the deposits of two metals in the acid creates erm an unpleasant , noxious , possibly poisonous gas and I do n't know what that would do .
15 Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in .
16 got back to his mark and we 're going to have three slips , Lewis gone to join the slips , so it 's er three slips and the gully , as waits for this one , packing were the up comes Lawrence now past Dickie Bird , bowls to him , well pitched up and he played a rather streaky stroke really , and he turns it away down to square Tufnell is down there , fields the ball , throws back quite nicely , he fielded very well , let's say that and one run goes on the total , er so that at the moment three hundred and four runs are needed and it 's about three point nine seven the required rate .
17 I am waiting and it is not a time for you to be chatting .
18 Prime 's Natick , Massachusetts headquarters has been sold and it is now headquartered at the old Computervision base in Bedford , Massachusetts .
19 The advantages of gamma scintigraphy are offset by the fact that patients are required to be static during imaging , whereas it has been shown that it is more reliable to monitor reflux in ambulant patients than patients restricted within a hospital routine .
20 Scholars of Confucianism are agreed that it is not so much a religion as a guide to a system of political organisation , and as time went on , it too fell victim to divisions and disputes .
21 Premier League chief Rick Parry has been invited but it is only for the 14 clubs .
22 In the actual examination all the figures are provided and it is only necessary to infer from inspecting the graph or drawing which of four alternatives is the correct one .
23 In the end he presents it as a solution to the problem which he had been set but it is really nothing of the sort .
24 Now , it is in the nature of the critique of this aspect of classical Marxism which has already been proposed that it is not possible to erect an alternative ‘ general theory ’ .
25 This shrine has long been abandoned but it is still a place of great power and of deep significance to both the Elves and the Dark Elves .
26 If speechreading is being considered for someone who is very elderly , it should be recognized that it is only one of many factors .
27 They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is .
28 Well it 's not , they 're not saying it 's solved they 're saying it has to be delayed until it 's actually possible .
29 Large medical expenses accounts should have been checked by Europ Assistance but these should still be examined as it is not unknown for such accounts to include TVs and even bar charges .
30 We use the dynamic competitive firm operating under spot price uncertainty as the vehicle for our analysis , though it should be emphasized that it is not the firm per se that interests us but , rather , the risk , the dynamics , the complexity , and the optimality .
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