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

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1 Now we , we , the title tells us that 's in Cornwall , it does n't really matter where it is but erm just a hint of the sea , a , a super place to live I should think there .
2 For a classical particle we can know both its position and momentum , where it is and what it is doing .
3 If I take it to the police the matter will be dealt with much sooner than if we leave it where it is and wait for them to call here .
4 People are always asking why a particular village or farm is sited where it is and so , sooner or later , the landscape historian will have to give this question some consideration .
5 where it is and then zoom .
6 so that we , we all know what 's going on and and where it is and
7 where it was but I came across somewhere where there was a freephone and people at a g on a given sort of in a given week could all just go and use this freephone number , and ring up and they 'd hear a tape recording .
8 She had n't mentioned where it was but she had spoken of it with love .
9 I could have my own contributions returned or I could leave my pension where it was and draw it at the age of sixty-five .
10 They then spent the rest of the lesson — the first part had taken twenty minutes — in writing an account of why Rome was settled where it was and comparing it with the legends that they knew concerning Rome .
11 ‘ So I hailed a taxi outside the motel and just said British Committee and he knew immediately where it was and drove me straight there . ’
12 She asked him to hold the screen just where it was and she went round the back of it , out of his sight .
13 When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel .
14 ‘ Put everything back where it was and start the engine , ’ she screamed .
15 Taking her courage in both hands , she left her bag where it was and turned the knob , pushing open the door into the kitchen which smelled so warm and inviting and blessedly familiar that a lump rose in her throat .
16 I mean , nobody 's there to back you up , if you need a , if you need any assistance , or it 's or the company 's not really bona fide then you 've got no comeback .
17 But it 's no good starting from scratch the night before , or it is but I mean you 'll you 'll suffer for it .
18 He found himself saying , ‘ In 1919 the Enabling Act was passed ’ and then could not remember what the Enabling Act was ; although it was and still in part is the Act which defines the nature of the establishment in England .
19 According to that theory everything exists for only an instant and is then replaced by a facsimile of itself , so that it is but a series of momentary existences like the successive frames in a cine-camera film .
20 I desire only to know that all is well ; that it is but my own foolishness , aided by my being here at so unholy an hour , which causes me such anguish …
21 The area of special needs in further education/training has had to contend with the fact that it is but a very small part of a very much larger whole , and that the FE college and the training schemes are subject to the vagaries and constraints of the external environment .
22 If they suggest that the legal sanctions against the abuse of power by company controllers are not wholly adequate , it must be remembered that it is but rarely that power is abused .
23 However , assuming that it is and that Winchester became for the purposes of the Act of 1986 a member of Lautro , then the assumption does not lead to any relevant conclusion .
24 It will provide you with two sides of an A4 sheet giving you very little detail about the property except that it is or is not worth the agreed purchase price .
25 We may often be sure that we can judge by the quality of the drawing or painting , but there are always at least some cases in which our uncertainty is deepened by the absence of the expected signal , that it is or is not intended to be art .
26 No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands .
27 Many would have claimed that it served none , that it was but the result of the Fall and of sin , and that it brought only harm and hurt to the world .
28 The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past .
29 You that you accepted that as as conclusive that it was and not .
30 Our society does seem to be far more violent that it was or , perhaps , we are more sensitive to aggression that we once were .
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