Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why , on the costing basis , we are right to say that it represents another 10p in the pound on basic income tax . |
| 2 | Now he stretched back in his chair and said : ‘ This proposed job — rumoured job , I should say — I suppose we 're entitled to ask whether it has been formally offered to you yet ? |
| 3 | When anyone suggests , as people will , that they have done a great thing for Anna , Tony and Christine are quick to reply that it has been a great thing , also , for them . |
| 4 | Indeed , while the restructuring plan casts doubt on the firm 's ability to come up with the capital to finance an ambitious plan to expand its telecommunications operation , the extent of the Kontrax Group 's difficulties are hard to assess as it financed its expansion by means of a maze of inter-company loans . |
| 5 | erm , all I can say is I 'm glad to see that it 's stopped being referred to as women 's troubles , you know and we 're actually bringing it out to the forefront . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm happy to help if it means the right thing is done by poor Harriet . |
| 7 | Well I 'm pleased to hear that it 's come back to Shrewsbury . |
| 8 | I 'd like to grow it a bit longer , but the ends are inclined to split and it looks dull . |
| 9 | But I am ready to bet that it had something to do with the trajectory , the pathway through the real-life equivalent of Biomorph Land , that would have to be traversed in order to turn the retina the right way round , starting from whatever ancestral organ preceded the eye . |