Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew from my family history I was likely to be vulnerable to cancer and luckily it was diagnosed and treated in time . |
| 2 | The worry is that the jury can not be made to abide by directions of this kind , and so it is alleged that , if no evidential weight attaches to the refusal to answer , it would be better to exclude it altogether than to run the risk . |
| 3 | The blood of childbirth and menstruation , which follows a passive and unstoppable cycle , can be construed ( by the powers that be ) to fall within this category , and so it is required that cultural regulation step in with restrictive legislation . |
| 4 | Many of these plateaus have anomalous crustal thicknesses of between 20 and 40 km and an upper layer 10 to 15 km thick with P-wave velocities in the range 6.0–6.3 km s-h These values are in the range of granitic rocks in the continental crust and so it is inferred that many oceanic plateaus ( such as the Seychelles Bank ) are drowned continental fragments originating from the edges of ancient land masses and destined to be swept towards a subduction zone in the future . |
| 5 | In other words , the subjective elements were read referentially and so it was implied that the logic of narrative derived from a reality outside itself . |
| 6 | And so it was envisaged that the former coaling and oiling stations of Gibraltar , Malta , Port Said , Suez , Aden , Bombay , Colombo , Penang , Singapore and Hong Kong would become air staging posts as well in the post-imperial era . |
| 7 | The committee felt that basic communication and numeracy skills were most important for this purpose , and so it was suggested that all CEE certificates should record proficiency scores in English and mathematics . |
| 8 | One or two police forces are experimenting with notebook computers , and perhaps it is intended that they will receive information from the control computer . |
| 9 | It is not possible to predict the types of security interests that will be created in the future and requiring registration of some such unforeseen interests could be unnecessarily burdensome ; even with respect to the known types of legal charge , particularly those conferring the right to possession , it would produce overkill ; and lastly it is claimed that to require the registration of all charges could dry up certain types of secured borrowing . |
| 10 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 11 | The transmission at sites outside the brain by acetylcholine or by noradrenaline was established unequivocally ( see Chapters 6 and 12 ) and later it was established that both these substances were present at many sites inside the brain and spinal cord . |
| 12 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 13 | Erm and also it was felt that the I I P was quite well structured , and that there was potentially less to learn from a service |
| 14 | They exchanged photographs before they met , but when I first saw him he looked years older and much fatter than in his photo and now it 's emerged that he 's 48 and divorced . |
| 15 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |
| 16 | A small group ( two bulls and six heifers ) was exported to an English agricultural college in 1988 on an experimental basis , and here it was described as looking rather like a South Devon or a beefy Jersey ; the bulls are being used on the college 's Friesian dairy herd to produce beef calves . |
| 17 | Westcott once employed a thousand people , now there are only a hundred and fifty , and today it was announced that they too would lose their jobs unless the factory could find substantial new orders . |
| 18 | But if someone is accused of a crime and then it is proved that the accuser is lying , the accuser is immediately killed . |
| 19 | And then it was boiled and boiled that it was er tender and that and then it was taken out and cut into bits and this is what a potted head And then it was That was done and then er Where the water what was boiled there was often fat but that was all skimmed off , and er next day there was as much water in the And er meat from the head was put in and pepper and salt and that , and then it was boiled again and then put into little dishes and that was your potted head . |
| 20 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
| 21 | In the past , the farmer 's wife or daughters made the cheese and then it was matured and ripened on a shelf near the cooking range . |
| 22 | She looked up then and saw a flicker of doubt in his dark eyes and then it was gone and he shrugged . |
| 23 | Sometimes it is omitted where it is historically expected to be present , and sometimes it is added where it is not expected . |
| 24 | The mathematics for a spinning black hole are rather different from those of a stationary one , and initially it was thought that they would allow the possibility of a suitably durable craft surviving the voyage without necessarily being destroyed . |
| 25 | Many systems of payment for commodities are based on ‘ unit price ’ rather than lump sum and indeed it is argued that this is a much simpler system for the general public to understand because the rate is fixed for all eventualities and becomes well known . |
| 26 | The style has tremendous rhetorical power in that the analysis reveals the obverse of the obvious and yet it is treated as still obvious . |
| 27 | Latin America 's nutritional levels are higher than in many other parts of the Third world , and yet it is estimated that 15 per cent of the region 's children suffer from medium to high-level malnutrition , which means , given the differences within the region , high levels in some areas ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 28 | And yet it is estimated that two-thirds of companies fail to employ their quota of registered disabled and only two government departments employ 3 per cent disabled . |
| 29 | The T m s are similar in all cases , and therefore it is concluded that the exothermicities of their formation would be similar at 0 K. The differences are assumed to lie in the fact that homopolymers behave in a manner analogous to a crystal , with a sudden transformation from a highly ordered state just below the T m to the disordered state just above the T m . |
| 30 | It is also recognised that having a single contact person within the Exchequer Division to deal with travel agents is good practice and therefore it is suggested that Carole Ann Johnston , Admin Assistant arrange all travel and overnight accommodation when required . |