Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONSIDERING the vast worldwide market that exists for sexual material of all kinds , it is remarkable just how bad mainstream cinema has been when it comes to portraying sexual passion . |
| 2 | A good application form can be helpful but what has to be considered is whether it stops the candidate from expressing him/herself . |
| 3 | let me , the o the other thing we can do is if it 's broken the shop can send it back but the man , the other person pays . |
| 4 | The reason why it 's quite a good thing to do is because it gets you into descriptive language okay and thinking about how you describe things , adjectives are describing words . |
| 5 | How much easier and clearer it might have been if it had been possible to say that both parents and husband were equally concerned and that they might all talk together . |
| 6 | This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise . |
| 7 | The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head . |
| 8 | but what I 'm saying is if it happens , |
| 9 | The reason this one survived is because it travelled on the tour bus and not on the chartered plane , which crashed after take-off from Mason City airport in Iowa , while taking Holly , the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens to a gig in Moorhead , Minnesota . |
| 10 | And if I might just come in on this thing that 's always thrown up against Mrs. Thatcher about her rejoice , she said rejoice when South Georgia had been retaken and the rejoice was because it appeared to have been done without any casualties — that was what she was rejoicing for , not the victory erm |
| 11 | Dr Neil made vain attempts to stifle the bleeding , his own face now as grey as the bedlinen had been before it turned red . |
| 12 | ‘ The only way that 's going to happen is if it receives wholehearted support from the clubs , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The only way that 's going to happen is if it looks like a professional West End production . |
| 14 | And the five main points that are covered is whether it 's organized for the benefit of its members , which partly comes into that , but it goes a bit beyond that I think . |
| 15 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 16 | One question that immediately arises is whether it refers to the content of speech or to the form — the sequencing of utterances , for instance . |
| 17 | ‘ The reason it was changed was because it came soft . ’ |