Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has made it quite clear that it believes that the existing legislation can deal with such matters . |
| 2 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 3 | It 's completely cordless so it goes where you go , and because it operates on both batteries and mains , you 're not tied to the nearest plug . |
| 4 | My voice was high and it shook and I did n't convince even myself . |
| 5 | They were originally intending to work in Zaire , but the situation is still somewhat unstable and it seems that the time is not quite right for them to go there . |
| 6 | The mention of Cyprus is interesting because it shows that Egypt was not mere opportunism : the decision to attack Persia in strength on Cyprus had already been made . |
| 7 | I found that interesting because it appears that the Minister does not know how many doctors made a claim that was above the amount of the reimbursement schedule or , if he did know , he was unwilling to tell me , so I must presume that he did not know . |
| 8 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 9 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 10 | A little embarrassed because it looked as though she had been prying , Meredith murmured , ‘ I 'm not much of a cook . ’ |
| 11 | The law , ‘ All planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ , is scientific because it claims that planets in fact move in ellipses and rules out orbits that are square or oval . |
| 12 | This shows that the actualization of the infinitive 's event is not what such sentences express , an analysis supported by Coates ( 1983 : 100 ) , who gives a similar argument for the meaning of can in her discussion of She can swim , and Palmer ( 1977 : 5 ) , who has pointed out that a sentence such as ( 12 ) is impossible because can " is not used to imply actuality in the past " : ( 12 ) * I ran fast and could catch the bus , Example ( 13 ) however is quite acceptable because it implies that the event did not take place , being seen merely as a possibility in the past ( i.e. a potentiality ) . |
| 13 | It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks . |
| 14 | He was the first star to weather the storm of a dope scandal , emerging unscathed and proving the Indianapolis Star wrong when it prophesied that ‘ The public never did — never will — laugh off a dope scandal involving a screen favourite performer . |
| 15 | The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête . |
| 16 | Moreover it saved us as a family from being caught in the 1914 — 18 war as my sister and I were eighteen and sixteen years old when it finished and almost all our contemporary male cousins were killed . |
| 17 | This passage is interesting as it assumes that there would have been no right of recovery in any of the cases to which the section referred although had the Woolwich principle been applicable there would have been recovery , apart from the section , in some . |
| 18 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 19 | We are not sorry that it failed and that , accordingly , Chapter 9 breaks into dialogue . |
| 20 | People know this , they identify with this , they recognise that you 're back-tracking and it looks as though your ke case is hereby weakened . |
| 21 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 22 | Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength . |
| 23 | This treatment , which originated in Japan , is by no means as violent as it sounds and it can be used , in varying degrees , on anyone from babies to the very old . |
| 24 | It is clear , however , that in this case the contracting company felt extremely nervous when it found that representatives of a safety committee had gone straight from the employer to the ultimate operator in the field . |
| 25 | This is n't as easy as it sounds because all the DOS 5 files are compressed . |
| 26 | This is not as easy as it sounds as it needs a change to the German constitution which requires a two third majority in the German parliament . |
| 27 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |
| 28 | When I joined the NCT , like most members , I did so because I wanted the best antenatal classes possible and it seemed that I would have the chance to meet new mothers and make new friends after the birth too . |
| 29 | Right now the gossip in the town is that Ingrid is pregnant and it looks as though Olive King is about to become a star … about time too ! |
| 30 | If , of course , her grief becomes prolonged and it seems that she is making no headway towards adjustment , it will be advisable for her to see her doctor , but this rarely happens . |