Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why it is better to see a doctor when you first feel unwell rather than wait until it is so bad that you have to go to hospital . |
| 2 | Theresa led the way , between grass almost knee-high bordered by a riot of unpruned roses , to the porch , then reached for a key hung high on a nail , less , Dalgliesh supposed , for security reasons than to ensure that it was n't lost . |
| 3 | It insists upon lumping the whole of reality together as a single ‘ thing ’ or ‘ system ’ like a body , rather than recognising that it is more a collection of different things , a network of interrelated but separate systems , animate and inanimate , that can not be welded together into one ‘ thing ’ . |
| 4 | Except to say that it was scrupulously chosen , as was usual with Eliot , I forget what we ate on the occasion : we had so much to talk about . |
| 5 | This raises another difficulty for the historian , because it is far harder to estimate the extent to which a village had shrunk or when this occurred than to note when it was finally deserted . |
| 6 | It was as if to prove that it was n't England that had changed that Losey went on to make Accident ( 1967 ) , a powerful triangle drama involving two very different Oxford academics and their exotic pupil , financed from English sources . |
| 7 | In this way the lawyer has a part to play within political movements , such as the peace movement , while acknowledging that it is not law alone that can bring about the changes we desire , but it is that movement as a whole that can and must do so . |
| 8 | While admitting that it was originally the understatement of German earnings which led to this move by the German analysts , in this we nevertheless have a model on which to work . |
| 9 | In my opinion , the existence of an alleged defence is a matter to be taken into account in the exercise of the court 's discretion , when deciding whether it is just and convenient that interlocutory relief should be granted . |
| 10 | The European Patent Office has got itself into a mess over these issues because it has proceeded to patent life forms without first examining properly whether the EPC , when interpreted as it was originally intended , actually allows the patents the patent office has granted . |
| 11 | Thus the existence of an alleged defence to a criminal prosecution is merely a matter to be taken into account in the exercise of the court 's discretion when considering whether it is just and convenient that interlocutory relief should be granted ( post , pp. 173D–F , 178H , 179A , 190D–E ) . |
| 12 | In the Cleveland Report , the British Association of Social Workers is reported as stating that it is absolutely essential that those involved with the family should conduct the fullest assessment of the family background . |
| 13 | I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ . |
| 14 | In doing so he discovered that there were spontaneously generated potentials ( the EEG ) as well as showing that it was indeed possible to detect electrical brain responses to stimuli . |
| 15 | He was off the field throughout the second day having treatment for a pulled thigh muscle , but said today : ‘ I have not felt the injury at all when batting and it is much better . ’ |