Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically it was about certain British officials allegedly colluding in drug-test avoidance at some meetings in the early eighties . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was by pure chance that the other woman had been there , and Matthew was entirely innocent . |
| 3 | It would be a tragedy for the aircraft preservation and restoration movement as a whole if it were all scrapped , and so it is with great sadness that after a great deal of thought they are agreed ( having been partners both in business and as husband and wife ) that the time has come to take life a bit easier and retire from the business . |
| 4 | So it is with space-time : on a very small scale it is ten-dimensional and highly curved , but on bigger scales you do n't see the curvature or the extra dimensions . |
| 5 | So it is with conservation policies . |
| 6 | 1982 ) and so it is of great concern to primary health care teams . |
| 7 | One of the things you will notice when watching the television is that close-ups are used very effectively , and so it is of vital importance that the actor has absolute control over his/her face and expression . |
| 8 | And so it is in Christian life generally . |
| 9 | Erm and the reason we set this is that we are erm er the er , er we believe that this above average er growth in the in the , erm , er , earnings per share of the company is what shareh increases in shareholder value really depend on and er again to give an example erm , if you take the , the , the , the , the , the F T S E a hundred companies erm , and you do analyses of their er , growth rates and earnings per share you will find that the average growth rate was eleven and a half percent and ours er , was er , twenty , twenty percent so it 's above average remuneration erm , er , er , for above av for above average performance . |
| 10 | So it 's with added comprehension that a reader of On the Look-Out can approach the taut ferocity of Sisson 's early poems and the sombreness of those more recent , the jarring plainness of his Divine Comedy and other such translations , the savagery of his two gaunt novels , and the war against fashion-induced mediocrity waged by Sisson the literary critic . |
| 11 | So it was of trivial significance as a means of realizing surplus . |
| 12 | We were proud to participate in the CCPR Wembley Festivals of Movement and Dance in 1955 , 1958 and 1963 , which some of you will remember , and so it was with particular pleasure we accepted the invitation to join in the celebrations to be held on 20th April at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 13 | Thus it is of considerable interest to ascertain if English law mandated this result and , if it did , whether , yet again , our legal practices fall below the minimum standards prescribed by the European Convention . |
| 14 | And it was n't just it was by pure coincidence , I mean his kidneys would have stopped anyway , that bloke thumped him in the pub . |
| 15 | Or possibly it was of Norman origin , for it is known from a twelfth-century description of London that bull-baiting was practised by them . |
| 16 | Clearly it is of prime importance to know how and why this dramatic reversal of traditional attitudes has occurred , and to ask ourselves the question why our approval of democracy should be so automatic and unhesitating when , had we been born a century or so earlier , we would have been equally unhesitating in disclaiming any support for so dangerous and radical a notion . |
| 17 | When they answer back it 's in disembodied voices |
| 18 | Now it is for real and , though the race will be staged on a parkland road rather than a track , Foster believes it has considerable significance for the rest of Cram 's summer . |
| 19 | And that was mainly for dog dirt but now it 's for other hazards int it ? |
| 20 | Now it 's in urgent need of blankets to lend to those forced to sleep rough . |
| 21 | Often it is on caring friends and neighbours that the responsibility of looking after such people falls . |
| 22 | ton per cu , well it 's per cubic metre |
| 23 | Well it 's to runny . |
| 24 | It came so fast the keeper hardly saw it so for him and for all Hereford fans here it is in slow motion |
| 25 | It is hard to believe that any business whose life blood is communications could lag behind in using modern information technology , but that is how it is with British public relations . |
| 26 | That 's how it is between flat mates . |
| 27 | Well I think Simon for doing it is a really excellent way of doing it , it states the source of items , suggestions or quiffs , and makes a proposal erm , which we can debate agreed , and then it 's for clear instructions to what needs to be changed on the procedure . |
| 28 | Well I know that but there is English names on a lot of stuff except certain stuff and then it 's in foreign and it 's |
| 29 | Then it was for real , and each of the surveyors were totally in control and flying solo through a flight , two landings and a take off ! |
| 30 | He at length quoted the evidence given by Wells , the butcher and pointed out that , if the jury believed this and the evidence of Drew 's landlady , Mrs Goodall , then it was in direct contradiction to the majority of other witnesses . |