Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In virtue of expressing the belief that it is raining the statement ‘ It is raining says or asserts that it is raining . |
| 2 | Again , love and trust deepens and grows when it is expressed . |
| 3 | Both knights have to be bathed , shaved and properly clothed , and well looked after before they come to themselves , and Lancelot is ‘ sore ashamed ’ of his madness , and asks that it be kept from common knowledge . |
| 4 | This fastens itself to fish and sucks until it is gorged with blood , thereafter falling away to rest amongst aquatic vegetation while its meal is digested . |
| 5 | Contrary to speculation , the house has not been lent out to a public exhibition since 1925 , but remains where it was designed to stand , the only completely untouched Lutyens house in existence , a permanent record of a way of life between the wars . |