Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either that or it 's someone very clever . |
| 2 | Grassy plains and both open and mountainous deserts , gregarious where it is common . |
| 3 | For the rest , it is distasteful where it is not dull . |
| 4 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 5 | and giving us tuition on real antique furniture , he does n't do anything in his shop erm after eighteen forty or it 's all more or less Georgian , very Georgian actually . |
| 6 | But it was just the fact I suppose that maybe some of the the family had died out and the person that was was n't just quite clear where it was . |
| 7 | ROS : Yes , it 's lighter than it was . |
| 8 | The " consultations " failed , prompting all the main political groups in Kuwait to form a joint delegation which informed Shaikh Saad on March 30 that it was not prepared to join a new government before a timetable for political reform had been established . |
| 9 | The United States government announced on July 30 that it was to scale down or close 79 of its defence bases in Europe , following its January 1991 decision to halve its military presence in Europe . |
| 10 | The Bundesbank announced on Aug. 30 that it was to honour some DM250,000,000 of outstanding interest payments which were still due on a debt agreement reached in 1953 with its Western creditors . |
| 11 | The German government , citing cost and changed security needs following the end of the Cold War , confirmed on June 30 that it was to withdraw from the multinational European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) project . |
| 12 | The UN had announced on Sept. 30 that it was suspending its humanitarian operations in southern Sudan . |
| 13 | The rebel Movement for Democracy and Development ( MDD ) announced on Oct. 30 that it was repudiating reconciliation agreements which it had signed with the government in Libreville , Gabon , on June 24 [ see pp. 38952 ; 39132 ] . |
| 14 | For statement pairs containing a negative , sorting was faster when the two statements meant something different than it was when the two statements meant the same . |
| 15 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 16 | Or you could go in and say , ‘ Listen , , can I suggest two or three aspects of this that it 's worth covering ? |
| 17 | It is clear from this that it was social and not technical factors which were responsible for the emergence of factory production . |
| 18 | But whereas they concluded from this that it was desirable to devise institutional checks on the will of the majority , Rousseau accepted the principle of majority decisions but tried to envisage conditions under which the majority would truly represent the community as a whole and not simply a collection of group or individual interests . |
| 19 | Wayne was so taken aback by this that it was a moment before he realised something else ; the hand that had touched the box had come away wet . |
| 20 | In Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd. v Mills & Rockley ( Electronics ) Ltd. [ 1969 ] , a case involving a patent for a method of making printed circuits , Harman J. said : It was objected that in fact it was not until ten years after the invention was published that it was commercially adopted … and it was argued from this that it was not a case of filling a long felt want . |
| 21 | But it is very clear that it is present , though at times its influence waxed and waned . |
| 22 | Is it not clear that it is not ambulance staff which have withdrawn the emergency cover from London , but the management ? ’ |
| 23 | He is perfectly clear that it is in the terms provided by this framework that we are able to answer any ‘ limited ’ question about the causes of particular phenomena . |
| 24 | It is also clear that it is difficult to draw comparisons between the Western Isles and the developing countries . |
| 25 | It clear that it is costing British jobs on a substantial scale and that it will continue until the unfair practices cease . |
| 26 | In any event , the Act makes it clear that it is not unlawful for a teacher to inflict corporal punishment ( as defined in the Act ) where it is necessary ‘ for reasons that include averting an immediate danger of personal injury to , or an immediate danger to the property of , any person ( including the pupil concerned ) ’ . |
| 27 | Professional counsellors faced with the same client would be clear that it is their task to explore emotions and they allocate the time to do it ; social workers have the mixed task of practical and emotional support but they have a restricted caseload and the time to build up a relationship . |
| 28 | Reading between the lines it becomes clear that it is the address which was recorded , in a studio re-creation to cash in on the President 's assassination . |
| 29 | Even when parents strongly disapprove of the way their teenager is behaving , it is still important to make it clear that it is the behaviour and not the person that is being rejected . |
| 30 | ( From here on , the use of the capital ‘ G ’ for ‘ god ’ will make it clear that it is the Created God that is meant and not ‘ god ’ in any of the historic meanings of that word ) . |