Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the Buid , momentary expressions of anger may be viewed in the first instance as indicative of a momentary desire to harm another , but if such conduct becomes persistent or habitual it is almost always reinterpreted as being caused by hostile mystical forces and thus as not being under the deliberate control of the individual . |
| 2 | whether you put it on number two or number nine or high it 's still the same , flame |
| 3 | Be it industrial , domestic or social it is a major cause of neighbour disputes . |
| 4 | This may be zero , though in multi-programming or multi-tasking it is likely to be finite . |
| 5 | If your a little numb , cynical , or apathetic it 's probably a healthy sign . |
| 6 | This was very familiar to those who had worked with Peter before ; he said it before every production , regardless of how complex or simple it was , and regardless of the length of rehearsal allocated . |
| 7 | So it 's not about being aggressive it 's not about being aggressive or submissive it 's about being clear to true to yourself being aware of what you want from any given situation . |
| 8 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 9 | You may wish to consider the nature of its nationalisation programme and critically examine how radical or socialist it was . |
| 10 | Horses tend not to use badly sited shelter sheds , no matter how hot or cold it is . |
| 11 | You have a long , hard think about it , because it 's a great mistake to simply accept or adapt to whatever space you have , however cramped or awkward it is , without questioning whether it 's right for you . |
| 12 | I mean , it 's like the change of a crew one way or the other , it was fat or heavy it 's , you know , it 's the eight guys that are there and those are the eight best men that Oxford have and I think we have the best crew with those eight people . |
| 13 | The rational agent can then calculate the expected utility of each action by assigning a ‘ utility ’ ( a quotient of happiness , so to speak ) to each consequence and discounting it for how likely or unlikely it is to be the actual consequence . |
| 14 | In erm Romans chapter three and verse twenty seven it says that er Jesus died for our sins and I 'd just like to leave this thought with you , that n er just like me , when I could have died the other week in that plane crash , that none of us knows how long we 've got on this life and , however long or short it is , there 's no time like the present to get right with God if you , if you are n't and the only way to do that is through Jesus . |
| 15 | But however long or short it was , Nicodemus certainly must have learned a , a tremendous amount as he listened to Jesus . |
| 16 | If you stay on the same mark or higher it 's good . |
| 17 | In fact , if one believes that policies are wrong or ineffective it is important to understand why this is so , particularly if one 's objective is to change them . |
| 18 | How easy or difficult it is for girls to tell their parents that they are pregnant also depends on how accustomed they are to confiding in their mothers or fathers about periods , boyfriends , sex and contraception . |
| 19 | We have to have some independent arguments about how easy or difficult it is for life to originate on a planet , before we can even begin to answer the question of how many other planets in the universe have life . |
| 20 | Following the survey meeting , and before preparing the quote , it is worth getting BIC to make a quick trawl to indicate how easy or difficult it is likely to be to obtain information . |
| 21 | London was a crucial site for such developments , since with a population or 900,000 it was unique in the Europe of 1800 ( McKendrick 1983 : 21 ) . |
| 22 | But I do n't thi like these are detached or semi it was more like that , that 's it , like that there |
| 23 | Cos this is quite strong stuff I 'm gon na give you because that 's , once that 's been there for a week or two it 's hard to get it shifted . |
| 24 | For a minute or two it was very quiet . |
| 25 | She got injured in her back somewhere , but er it was national news , I mean it was in The Mirror and all the papers and it became a , for a day or two it was er it was in everywhere , and the theory is that er it was this erm very very dry summer and a very very wet autumn and a bit of dry rot in the timbers somewhere , but it was it was another |
| 26 | It 's an absurd little thing really and yet somehow or other it 's important . |
| 27 | Erm somehow or other it 's going to come along and I think most people 's thinkings are that it will be shown as a tax item on the ticket as are the taxes in other countries |
| 28 | I mean death is the price we pay for life , and at some point or other it 's very desirable to depart from this world certainly . |
| 29 | it 's complete in itself and er people by human nature like things to be complete or whole it is it is emotionally satisfying . |
| 30 | It can not see how good or bad it is in reaching its objectives unless it engages with them for most of the manager 's time . |