Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] and [conj] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 You may tell me that your personal life is not my concern and that it is not for me to comment — and you would be justified however , I can not help but make it my concern because I have your future very much at heart .
2 My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems .
3 My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems .
4 ‘ Tell everyone how much you like their present and if it 's money , say what you 're spending it on , ’ advised Anna , writing fast .
5 It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it .
6 if the company resolves by extraordinary resolution to the effect that it can not by reason of its liabilities continue its business and that it is advisable to wind up .
7 They need to be taught the consequences of their behaviour and that it is not acceptable .
8 Not because the decision in Spain weighed on him , but because while Niki 's Ferrari continued to perform with unfailing reliability , his own car , due to minute adjustments to accommodate new regulations , was turning into a pig : proof once again that even the tiniest changes in a car can gravely affect its performance and that it is the smallest defects that are the hardest to detect .
9 They say that they are following this course because bookshops are essentially ineffective in expanding their market and that it is unreasonable for them to be restricted to selling their product to us alone .
10 ‘ But it was her house and when it is your own you are incredibly proud of it . ’
11 You 're lucky in a way that he 's there , and lucky , too , that he 's got his music and that it 's bringing him a name , for it 's some sort of compensation in the meantime , helping his waiting . ’
12 It is ‘ space to be ’ , when you gather up everything that crosses the threshold of your life and where it is interpreted in the light of your walk with God .
13 Stop running — it is probably excited by your running and if it is going to bite , running away wo n't help much .
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