Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 That 's right , so , if you want to try and erm , minimize urban unemployment , right , or it 's futile to try and minimize urban unemployment by erm , er , establishing employment er , job creation schemes in urban areas , because that will increase the probability of getting a job if you 're a migrant .
2 These pickups have plenty of bite and it 's good to see that Ibanez have kept their sensible switching system at this end of the range .
3 It has its fair share of crash , bang wallop and does take a mite too long to wrap itself up , but Sneakers is very funny , hugely entertaining and always ingeniously wacky and it 's good to see that reports of Mr Redford 's celluloid ‘ death ’ have been been a touch premature and certainly exaggerated .
4 Your body fuel makes your engine tick over , and it 's good to know that the majority of the time it is being well and truly fed in the best possible way !
5 He is a lovely man and it 's good to know that he is unlikely to end up punch-drunk or fighting in circus booths , as many top boxers have in the past .
6 And it 's good to know that if you have to , you can .
7 And it 's good to know if you , when you know you 've got to have to build teams , that you 've done it before .
8 ‘ The Sex Pistols ’ , he wrote , ‘ are very New York and it 's nice to see that the British have produced a band capable of producing the atmosphere created by the New York Dolls and their many imitators , even though it might be too late … ’
9 We we should discuss a bit about this document and I too have had the er dubious honour of reading John Major 's speech and it 's nice to see that both Tory speakers have actually managed to take half of it each and paraphrase it .
10 Eating out or shopping on holiday in Hungary is a real pleasure and it 's nice to know that bringing home presents and souvenirs wo n't break the bank .
11 Because just sort of go for it and it 's all done and then
12 Everything 's eatable and it 's all cooked and boiling hot and really nice .
13 ‘ Men talk , ’ said Brenda , ‘ and it 's all piss and wind and ends in death . ’
14 Had little , has little ducky dropped out and it 's all bitted and lumpy .
15 Contradiction : It 's dead and It 's alive stand in a contradictory relation : It 's dead entails and is entailed by It 's not alive ( and It 's alive entails and is entailed by It 's not dead ) .
16 FaxNow ! makes poor use of the Windows graphical environment and it 's awkward to use as there 's no phone book — all phone numbers have to be entered manually .
17 Polyester and polyurethane are quick-drying paints and it 's surprising to learn that bodies can be buffed only hours after their final coating .
18 And it 's easy to tell if they are because there 'd be their car by the roadside . ’
19 Subversion is being cooked up inside , and it 's heartening to know that , even if misguided , some people are ready to lay their beliefs on the line as the Tories continue dismantling the state .
20 We we do that in terms of of of capital control for Translink and Computer Services , and it 's interesting to note that we do n't class as a debt free authority , so what we have is a number of scare stories from Vincent over there , which is irresponsible .
21 Well football pools are a splendid started because recently somebody has won just over nine hundred thousand pounds , and it 's interesting to note that he did this without exercising too much skill , as I 'm sure he 'd be the first to admit , because he enters the same numbers every week .
22 His account of the Italian is sheer joy from beginning to end , and it 's hard to believe that he was almost 87 .
23 And it 's hard to believe that just four months ago he underwent surgery to have an artificial knee and a steel plate put into his leg .
24 Down in the corrie , two sparkling blue-green lochans perch beneath the steep cliffs , and it 's hard to imagine that just over the next two gullies , people in golf jumpers are tucking into sticky buns .
25 er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area .
26 And it 's difficult to do when it 's not your language .
27 You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ?
28 We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment .
29 You ca n't go back and it 's natural to assume that your relationship has changed invariably for the worse .
30 It seems most unlikely that the testator had any intention of this sort ; and it is pointless to assert that such a decision would have been impossible in a legacy , since the whole context — a disposition charged on a non-heir — is one in which a legacy could not have functioned .
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