Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , Bella 's home-help came out of the bungalow and it was no use any more trying to pretend that it was n't happening … . |
| 2 | It was no doubt less advanced in its industrial organisation than Lancashire , where the last of the surviving handloom weavers were absorbed into other employment in the 1850s , but it would be unrealistic to claim that it was not industrial . |
| 3 | Nor is it sensible to wish that it were otherwise , since raptures , aesthetic , erotic , intellectual , mystical , in which the spontaneous floods the whole of consciousness , can lift us to heights of awareness beyond our ordinary capacities . |
| 4 | It would be wrong to conclude that it is simply because women live longer than men . |
| 5 | Whether or not that was the intent of the regulations — and I am willing to believe that it was not the Minister 's intent — that has been the net effect of the way in which the three-week period was cut off due to the way that the regulations were tabled . |
| 6 | For the purposes of analysing intonation , a unit generally greater in size than the syllable is needed , and this unit is called the tone-unit ; in its smallest form the tone-unit may consist of only one syllable , so it would in fact be wrong to say that it is always composed of more than one syllable . |
| 7 | I mean they ought it would be easy to monitor because it is so it 's so concise . |
| 8 | It 's impossible to generalise and it 's up to each farmer to weigh up the options which suit him best . |
| 9 | To change from Mozart to Shostakovich in seven or eight hours , travelling to different country to do so — it is n't absolutely needed , but it 's not easy to understand that it 's not needed . |
| 10 | It 's easy to forget that it 's over eight years since Pepsi and Shirlie first sang with Wham ! and Shirlie still laughs at the memories : ‘ When we started out I had one dress and I wore it to every photo session — I could n't afford any more ! ’ |
| 11 | It is easy to forget that it was here , millions of years ago , that our forebears first appeared . |
| 12 | Pipeline was easy to judge since it was basically a one-manoeuvre event : what everyone was after was the tube . |
| 13 | The Countryside Stewardship Scheme and other environmental protection measures are to be applauded but it is sobering to realise that it is not a new problem . |
| 14 | It also makes Troll flesh virtually impossible to eat unless it is very thoroughly cooked . |
| 15 | She had the joint X-rayed on Wednesday night and was somewhat relieved to learn that it was merely a bad case of bruising . |
| 16 | In a mild autumn and a warm soil this is easy to achieve but it is certainly worth sowing as soon as the ground has been cleared of the previous crop . |
| 17 | Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself . |
| 18 | As Queen Victoria rises from her throne to address the audience it is hard to believe that it is not real flesh and blood ! |
| 19 | The family historian who visits such a place would find it hard to believe that it was once the home of a mere waggoner if he had not seen old photographs that show its condition before the First World War . |
| 20 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 21 | One individual may be more likely to survive because it is better suited to making its way about its environment and not because it is fiercer than others . |
| 22 | It is sometimes hard to get but it is there . |
| 23 | It also has a strong instrumental element , in the sense that it is most likely to happen when it is economically advantageous . |
| 24 | He 's trying too hard to please and it 's not a nice sight . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman and I might be able to agree that it is not unadjacent to the fact that so many inner London authorities are controlled by the Labour party . |
| 26 | But they are nevertheless able to agree that it is sometimes possible to elaborate functional relations of the sort we have considered . |
| 27 | But it is important to realize that it is only relatively recently , especially during the 1980s , that the full picture has begun to emerge . |
| 28 | Thus a member that protests from the outset of institutional action that is not sanctioned by the constitutive treaty should be able to claim that it is not bound by that action . |
| 29 | Second , sealing the border with Serbia would be unlikely to work if it were not accompanied by the simultaneous sealing of the border with Croatia : the Bosnian Serbs , already talking to the Croats about a confederal division of the spoils ( see page 46 ) , would get their supplies from Croatia , and the Croats — never mind their signatures on the Vance-Owen plan — would anyway continue their military campaign for territory . |
| 30 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |