Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Porn has never been so loved or so hated as it is now . |
| 2 | All these facts concerning the particular mechanisms of the paper industry added together meant that it was quite unlikely that Rembrandt would buy two batches of paper prepared by the same paper mill using the same mould . |
| 3 | Her first instinct was to cover her ears , but she soon realized that it was not going to get any quieter , and let her hands fall to her sides . |
| 4 | But she soon realized that it was not by chance , as it was Angel Clare who sent the cows in for milking . |
| 5 | Morag and Granny started on this job right away but they soon found that it was n't as easy as it looked . |
| 6 | I soon discovered that it 's almost impossible for anyone like myself , with normal sight and hearing , to imagine life without either sense — or to accept that , in many ways , 28-year-old Julia enjoys a nearly normal life . |
| 7 | Because the procedure can not apply to development already started and it is generally as quick to apply for actual permission if the planning authority 's officer advises that it is necessary , this does not get as much use as might be expected . |
| 8 | I think we 're actually getting in each other 's way for the right reasons rather than the wrong reasons , like just said and it 's not a question of somebody else trampling on others er cos I 've heard this sporadically for some time . |
| 9 | P.C. All right , Sir , but I always thought that it was more creditable to prevent crime and keep one 's beat clean and free from nuisances or offences than to have charges or summonses of a trivial character . |
| 10 | He felt her grow rigid at his touch , made it so light that she hardly knew that it was there . |
| 11 | ‘ I always did but it is n't easy , is it ? |
| 12 | His legs were beginning to get twitchy and fidgety , the way they always did when it was particularly important for him to keep them under control . |
| 13 | The spokesman also admitted that it 's not the first time the ladies have been hauled over the coals for selling fags . |
| 14 | And she also realised that it was not her job to heal the hurts of the whole world — though certainly her very nature leaned in that direction . |
| 15 | He also showed that it was closely connected with erysipelas . |
| 16 | Phillips , Chang and Buzzell ( 1983 ) also showed that it was quite possible for there to be several different degrees of differentiation . |
| 17 | He also warned that it was neither obscure nor medieval . |
| 18 | She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged . |
| 19 | Intelligent independent critics like Beaton and popular magazines like Photoplay knew that Vidor 's work was good but they also knew that it was not the answer to Hollywood 's problems . |
| 20 | I also recognized that it was more my fault than his . |
| 21 | It was out of the 1909 Budget proposals that the crisis originally arose and it was already , at that time , well established that financial affairs were the peculiar province of the House of Commons . |
| 22 | Once you 've got that , I , I think you might well fined that it 's quite nice and comfortable to stay there . |
| 23 | The senator had frowned , then opined that it was not just the fat who were for ever barred from the Oval Office , but even the ugly . |
| 24 | Gold EIA , a group which consistently reiterated that it was not anti-mining , is mainly concerned with the adequate articulation of local interests through consultation with the state over the proposed mining . |
| 25 | Two waiters came into the buffet arguing , and then noticed that it was n't empty and went out again . |
| 26 | One discussant then commented that it is not an either/or situation , that is , that either the government or the community should take sole responsibility for it , but it should be a responsibility shared by both government and community . |
| 27 | He sometimes wondered if it was not Blanche 's ability to daydream like this for a few seconds a day , the power to see beauty in apparent ugliness , that was the key to her resilience . |
| 28 | The world became much bigger and someone else discovered that it was round . |
| 29 | But Khomeini again insisted that it was all being done for foreign enemies of the Jews , America and Israel , we must be nailed and killed ; we must be sacrificed to the evil intentions of foreigners " |
| 30 | She briefly wondered if it was perhaps the work of Earth Reptiles , but swiftly dismissed the idea , since not only did the style not match theirs , but there was no sign of their hibernation hives . |