Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For a classical particle we can know both its position and momentum , where it is and what it is doing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | where it is and then zoom . |
| 7 | so that we , we all know what 's going on and and where it is and |
| 8 | However , LIFESPAN ABLE will display a warning message and the cursor will remain where it is if : |
| 9 | However , LIFESPAN PMR will display a warning message and the cursor will remain where it is if : |
| 10 | Will he also introduce training schemes to put the United Kingdom back where it was before we had a Tory Government and to take it out of this recession ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had n't mentioned where it was but she had spoken of it with love . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | She asked him to hold the screen just where it was and she went round the back of it , out of his sight . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Put everything back where it was and start the engine , ’ she screamed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | except it 's as you find it , rather than being produced artificially . |
| 21 | Although it 's that are . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Cat-equipped two-litre 16-valve engine sounds even more potent than it is but gives good economy . |
| 24 | The value of having such materials in brief and physically separate forms is that it is easier to manipulate ideas while they are still in note form than it is once you have written them out in prose . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Equally , science would be much less advanced than it is if the only available data were intuitive estimates of quantities . |
| 27 | Once waste is solidified , it is much less dangerous than it is when blowing about in the air or dissolved in water . |
| 28 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |
| 29 | Of course I admit there 's an alcohol problem , but then again it tends to look worse than it is because the res is dry so everyone congregates at the nearest bar , which is two miles south , in Nebraska . |
| 30 | They 've improved the chimney recently and it 's very much better than it was but we still get the smells . |