Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together . |
| 2 | We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy . |
| 3 | But it is not my intention to rehabilitate this theory , or to suggest that it is allegorically preferable to current theories of sexual difference . |
| 4 | Much so-called ‘ atonal ’ music is only music with a tonal foundation so obscured or disrupted that it is not easily perceived . |
| 5 | So measures of poor welfare include finding that , because of the way an animal is kept or treated , it is not able to live as long or finding that it is not able to grow or is not able to breed . |
| 6 | Wind the strip of green crepe paper round the length of your pencil or stick until it is completely covered . |
| 7 | Instead , we 're willing to take the risk and give Birmingham the retail centre it deserves and needs if it is not to be completely undermined by rival out-of-town attractions . ’ |
| 8 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 9 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 10 | I go down and say that it 's not good enough . |
| 11 | I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends . |
| 12 | We want to look at stress now , and realise that it is not all negative , in fact some people actually go out and seek a fair amount of stress . |
| 13 | Please continue to view your progress in the mirror and realise that it is only one more day before you measure and weigh yourself to enter your reduced ( I hope ! ) statistics on the Weight and Inch Loss Record Chart . |
| 14 | In Greek tragedy , in most of Jane Austen 's novels , a leading figure in the drama realises with a sense of shock that the world is other than once imagined , and accepts that it is so . |
| 15 | We shall maintain the assumption that expectations are rational , and show that it is not this assumption per se which leads to the ineffectiveness of systematic stabilization policy but its combination with ( inter alia ) the assumption of price flexibility . |
| 16 | The government turns its head aside from government support — apart from words — and says that it is either the employers ' responsibility or the employees ' … |
| 17 | This , coupled with its comparative rarity in the Western world , has lead some of the more cynical amongst physicians to doubt its very existence , and to suggest that it is really a collection of ulcerative genital conditions including herpes and trauma . |
| 18 | I should go and see if it is all right . ’ |
| 19 | you could phone up and see if it 's there , yeah . |
| 20 | Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too . |
| 21 | Fitting the water softener is a matter of breaking into the rising main and ‘ teeing ’ one pipe off to the softener and another from it ; a third pipe connecting the two tees contains a by-pass valve which is shut when the water softener is in use and open when it is not . |
| 22 | This will further strengthen the company and ensure that it is well set up to face the next decade with confidence . |
| 23 | Only the medium and large builders can mount a training campaign and ensure that it is effectively carried through . |
| 24 | You should use a plain paper , to give a good background for the pressed flowers , and ensure that it is fairly thick to absorb the glue without becoming transparent . |
| 25 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 26 | Touche Ross has audited this pro-forma and states that it is properly prepared on the basis set out . |
| 27 | Suppose that the brochure mentions a particular hotel and states that it is not yet completed . |
| 28 | Those who believe , or rather , know that the dialectic in its predetermined movement requires the appropriation , by wage-earners and as the outcome of their victory in the class war , of the means of production , and know that it is historically right to be on the side of that movement , will know also that the first is superior . |
| 29 | I would go further and suggest that it is also ideologically unsound . |
| 30 | When they try to stunt the growth of waste and to ensure that it is properly disposed of , governments face a real quandary . |