Example sentences of "[subord] 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 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 .
17 Cat-equipped two-litre 16-valve engine sounds even more potent than it is but gives good economy .
18 On the other hand , what you 'll get is this continual lying going on about kidding everybody that everything 's better than it is and , of course , the eternal gratitude .
19 They 've improved the chimney recently and it 's very much better than it was but we still get the smells .
20 That unpleasant responsibility is less necessary than it was but the habit of mind , in society as much as with the professions , lingers on .
21 The management of the health service is now infinitely better than it was and the trend to devolving responsibility downwards has continued apace .
22 The belay will probably be a few feet lower than it was and nearer to the exit from the groove .
23 You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way .
24 The ratio of bankers ' balances to deposit liabilities will be smaller than it was and if , as we have now said several times , the original ratio was a desired one , then banks will have to make further adjustments to their balance sheets to restore the ratio .
25 It did n't hurt , honestly , but it looked worse than it was and Lisabeth sort of saw red . ’
26 Gesner had made it better than it was and had carried Ingrid through most of her numbers .
27 There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward .
28 Once it was or while you were building it and once it was up .
29 Small towns , therefore , occupied a defined economic niche , even if it is but imperfectly understood .
30 Swainson ( 1840 ) had called this animal Polytropa lapillus ( L. ) but that name must give precedence to one of the older names if it is valid-and the name Polytropa lap ii/us is rarely seen in modern literature .
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