Example sentences of "[vb past] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a spoken sentence is long and complicated it is more likely to be PARATACTIC ; this means it is likely to be a string of sentences tied together with " and " , " or " , or " but " . |
| 2 | With that much money involved it is not surprising that fusion has seen its share of political intrigue . |
| 3 | Eh , I , I do n't know , it 's quite large , I found it 's quite big as one , I do n't know , , I know very little of . |
| 4 | I have n't seen it yet , but I am told it 's quite spectacular . |
| 5 | I suppose whatever happened it 's not right Far too these ones are alright . |
| 6 | Nowadays when tigers are ‘ shot ’ and measured it is almost always by research scientists . |
| 7 | Yeah , so they reckoned it 's not a scrapbook , but it is really . |
| 8 | Rehabilitated and well furbished it is now the pride of the waterfront . |
| 9 | Establishing a pool is initially time consuming , but once properly planted and stocked it is relatively undemanding compared with many other features of the garden . |
| 10 | Try it first heard it 's really good . |
| 11 | Chief Medical Officer , Sir Donald Aitchison , warned it 's now vitally important that heterosexuals adopt safer behaviour patterns . |
| 12 | A I 'm concerned about you , and I 'm surprised your doctor implied it 's not unusual to feel as you do . |
| 13 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 14 | This profit and lost is not real profit and lost it is n't real profit and lost . |
| 15 | If it is to be baled or carted it is most important that it is well and evenly dried . |
| 16 | But when you 're self employed it 's very important to know that you 're going to get |
| 17 | Erm one of the things that I like to emphasize er at this stage is that although it 's self employed it is as close to being employed as you can possibly be with a company but then but still destined by your own efforts to earn earn the money . |
| 18 | So far we have focused on the time-depth of vernacular variants in English , using ( h ) as an example and treating it as a binary variable ( we have assumed that in such words as hall , hit it is either pronounced or dropped ) . |
| 19 | It may be spring outside , but inside this cold storage shed it 's permanently Arctic . |
| 20 | Said to be trivial erm which meant it is n't erm book says that erm cos women talk about things like erm children and husband and things , |
| 21 | ‘ No-one wanted us to go to the spot where he died it 's right in the middle of what they call ‘ bandit ’ territory . |
| 22 | DFC felt it is now necessary for the Garden to take a policy decision on the standards to adopted for plant names . |
| 23 | Where the defendant has innocently made a substantial investment on the basis of information innocently acquired it is most unlikely that an injunction would be granted to restrain him from making use of that information ( although the fact that an injunction might drive the defendant into liquidation is not relevant if the tests in American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon [ 1975 ] AC 396 have been satisfied ; per May LJ in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis [ 1987 ] ICR 464 ) . |
| 24 | She says when she was a child we thought it 's just a few joint pains . |
| 25 | They 've stopped their publishers take action over several infringements — ‘ We thought it 's not really in our spirit ’ — but some still rile . |
| 26 | Oh aye , it is painful but I thought it 's not going away so I 'd better go and see about it . |
| 27 | on now this year to have me mum and dad cos she never had them at Christmas and I thought it 's not fair , you know , she 's the |
| 28 | And I , I thought it 's where we 've we could share the minutes together before Monday 's meeting . |
| 29 | and then suddenly from the other end there 's this like , cos we , it 's like a big room , it 's the other end of the room all the dealers there , and er anyway and er and suddenly I hear , and then someone 's like saying talking , they 're all , somebody 's like mi microphone and starts talking to them about er what 's happening in the market , things like that blah blah blah blah blah , and this means blah blah blah blah so watch out for blah blah blah and I thought it 's like living in a different world , it 's amazing . |
| 30 | Well I was going to put mine out and I thought it 's too wet . |