Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the extraordinary manner in which the pathological imagery has simply been inverted so that it forms the basis of a pastoral view which asserts the strength and durability of black family life and , in present circumstances , retreats from confronting the difficult issues which result in black children arriving in care in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ My father says that you 're an architect , ’ she volunteered , determined to be pleasant even if it killed her in the process . |
| 3 | This particular one is called a rail turn and two half hitches it needs to be tight so that it does n't come undone when we 're out there . |
| 4 | The pure flame of radical Christianity , we might say with the example of the Titfords before us , would be lucky indeed if it burned brightly for as many as three generations . |
| 5 | But I did n't like working at Johnny Walkers so I think it was quite a good thing at the time , although I did n't really like it I 'm glad now that it happened cos I 'd probably still be working in there . |
| 6 | More practical guidance , advice and support in those areas would be valuable particularly if it came from within librarianship rather than management science generally . |
| 7 | It er it 'd be handy actually if it generated an error when it did that . |
| 8 | That is , a question involving calculation was deemed to be practical only if it involved a real-life situation . |
| 9 | On those assumptions the state can be neutral only if it creates conditions of equal opportunities for people to choose any conception of the good , with an equal prospect of realizing it . |
| 10 | He sits down and writes me a receipt in the shadow of a sign which says ‘ You do n't have to be crazy here but it helps ’ . |
| 11 | It would n't be disastrous even if it gave out in mid-field , he adds . |
| 12 | Wordsworth 's poem could well be set as in Example 47 : Of course , this kind of writing can be highly poetic , but there is also a danger of falling into aimless meandering , or of not being memorable precisely because it has no metrical background . |
| 13 | Whether humanitarian intervention is legitimate within the terms of the United Nations Charter is controversial precisely because it permits a derogation of State sovereignty on behalf of individual rights . |
| 14 | At a push boiling oil on its own will do the job , but a typical mixture has corrosive properties and is sticky so that it adheres to exposed flesh . |
| 15 | The law , she thinks , is strong enough as it stands . |
| 16 | The latter alternative is possible here since it does not result in crossing the tune with the bass . |
| 17 | It 's interesting actually that it says on all the outsides of all the tapes Aston Business School so I 'd just like to say for the benefit of the tape recorder and the British National Corpus , this is where the Business School ends and this is where Psychology takes over . |
| 18 | This is interesting both because it suggests that non-Hebbian forms of potentiation occur in the hippocampus , and because it provides implicit evidence for the existence of a diffusible extracellular messenger ( see text ) . |
| 19 | Snake venom is usually clear yellow and is dangerous only if it gets into the bloodstream . |
| 20 | ‘ Reality is bendy enough as it stands , ’ he said . |
| 21 | The most celebrated of all the northern constellations is distinctive even though it contains no star as bright as the first magnitude . |
| 22 | All was well algae-wise apart from a smear of brown algae on the glass , some beard algae on the bogwood and on some of the slow-growing plants and what I now know to be the tell-tale sign of a thin greasy film on the water surface , which is present long before it thickens up into slime algae . |
| 23 | On the other hand we all know that any social and political change — call it revolution or not , it does n't really matter — is meaningful only if it builds new institutions . |
| 24 | It is important particularly because it draws together both coercion and hegemony in the state . |
| 25 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 26 | Extra-Statutory Concession D2 has also been amended as far as an individual is concerned so that it does not apply to a settlor of a resident or non-resident " settlor-interested " settlement . |
| 27 | It is recognisable even when it appears in feminist dress , as it does , for example , in these remarks of Hester Eisenstein ( 1984 ) : ‘ I argue that feminist theory has moved from an emphasis on the elimination of gender difference to a celebration of that difference as a source of moral values . |
| 28 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 29 | That 's alright though because it does n't , I 'm not worried tonight because you can lay in tomorrow cos as I say there 's no playschool or gymnastics is there ? |
| 30 | I know she 's naughty anyway if it 's recorded , that 's her tackled . |