Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The government turns its head aside from government support — apart from words — and says that it is either the employers ' responsibility or the employees ' …
5 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 .
6 I should go and see if it is all right . ’
7 you could phone up and see if it 's there , yeah .
8 This will further strengthen the company and ensure that it is well set up to face the next decade with confidence .
9 Only the medium and large builders can mount a training campaign and ensure that it is effectively carried through .
10 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 .
11 Touche Ross has audited this pro-forma and states that it is properly prepared on the basis set out .
12 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 .
13 I would go further and suggest that it is also ideologically unsound .
14 When they try to stunt the growth of waste and to ensure that it is properly disposed of , governments face a real quandary .
15 The hon. Gentleman knows that we are determined to sustain adult education , to extend it and to ensure that it is properly based in the local community .
16 The fish snaps at these enticingly offered morsels and finds that it is comparatively easy to bite one off .
17 BEFORE you start Take a good look at your hair and decide whether it 's really in a fit state to tackle the onslaught of chemicals , however gentle .
18 I am told by the probation service , social workers , educationists , and those involved in the youth offenders institute in my constituency that the turning point comes in the late teens , when such offenders get a regular girl friend and decide that it is about time that they acted a little more responsibly .
19 It 's increasingly difficult for the voluntary sector to make provision of this kind , to offer those opportunities without proper partnership with the state , so I do n't actually accept if you 're posing an alternative and saying that it 's either or , I do n't think that 's correct .
20 What should you do if you do n't live in London , and find that it is financially difficult to pay for such courses ?
21 There 's nothing worse than being in a foul temper and knowing that it 's only you , you 've got to blame for it .
22 Everybody gets on with their own lives and old links get used less and less till they 're forgotten , and before you know it , people are dead and gone and it 's too late .
23 I shall then examine an apparent exception to the principle of Contrast , and argue that it is only apparent , and not real .
24 Facing the realities of the background that has moulded their early life and finding forgiveness and understanding for those who , in the name of love , have moulded this type into submission , and learning that it is all right to show feeling and emotions will ultimately bring release and freedom to follow as their hearts dictate .
25 Part of the task of the modern tobacco promoter is to make the smoking habit appear clean and healthy , and to imply that it is all right to smoke if we take plenty of exercise .
26 The private sector has also responded to the need with , for example , Butterworth 's European Community Legislation : Current Status , which lists all Community legislation since 1952 ( except for legislation dealing with the daily running of the Communities ) and indicates whether it is currently in force , amended , repealed , or spent .
27 Howard Kendall has fined him and said that it 's all over .
28 finds , trying to make room for the cross , he 's tackled and tackled and it 's only a goal kick .
29 It accepts the priority of the process of objectification over either subject or object and recognizes that it is only the process itself which accounts for their appearance as discrete .
30 ‘ I thought we played better against Blackpool and lost but it 's still nice to get three points .
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