Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't make any apologies for that , and maybe it is going over the old ground , but unless we do it , unless we try to do it , if we 've done it the way before been and it has n't produced what we , what we want , then surely it 's not for us to sit back and say , ‘ Well , it 's been through that and it has n't worked ’ , surely we ought to try again , and that 's what I hope to be doing , sort of value your support and see you .
2 The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land .
3 Okay , it 's minus seven and it drops minus three .
4 It 's on full and it 's gone out .
5 The oil paint lazily moves over the surface of the paintings ; in places its application is to thick that it seems to be rotting and falling away .
6 And Stefan , try to write up the Luxembourg so that the emphasis is on that and it detracts from the fact that we 're resurrecting those three tired old numbers we 've so often done before .
7 Lamb was on 99 and it took him an age next morning to reach the hundred , his first since 1984 .
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