Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which effectively determined this case in the courts below and it is the law as so stated which the appellant prosecutor now challenges as an unwarranted judicial gloss upon the statutory language , as opposed to a legitimate construction of it . |
| 2 | There is a metaphysics of ontological realism underlying the conception of variable analysis , if only to the extent that it makes sense to talk of indices only if it is assumed that they " stand for " something . |
| 3 | Furthermore , in practice , we are often interested in making comparisons among the strata so that it is sensible that each be well represented . |
| 4 | It is important to number all of the items in the minutes so that it is easy to refer to particular items at a later date . |
| 5 | Tails so if it 's tails you read it first |
| 6 | It seems " fair " to both parties only because it is not obviously unfair to either of them , It is rather like the resultant of mechanical forces pulling in different directions . |
| 7 | The alternative to this , he suggests , is , " to subdivide and codify the design process incorporating the knowledge of the existing designers so that it is reduced to a sequence of simple choices " . |
| 8 | In the results reported below we treat the two repetitions separately since it is quite clear that behaviour changed between the two attempts . |
| 9 | The West Bank terminal was again the focus of job losses yesterday because it is there that the greatest loss of business has occurred . |
| 10 | Thus , payment for work carried out now might be made several months later and it is convenient for the debt to be expressed and for the payment to be made in money terms rather than in terms of some commodity . |
| 11 | He acts on his own skill and judgment in reaching his decision , and that decision will be binding on the parties even if it is wrong ( Campbell v Edwards [ 1976 ] 1 All ER 785 ) . |
| 12 | I mean it was only months ago cos it 's only a while ago that Tim came . |
| 13 | Engineering employment in the first half of nineteen ninety three is estimated to be a hundred and twenty thousand fewer than twelve months earlier and it is forecast to fall another forty five thousand in the next twelve months . |
| 14 | It is usually 2 or 3 times longer than it is wide , and can measure anything from 12′ to 24′ long and 6′ to 8′ wide ( 3.66/7.32 × 1.83/2.44m ) . |
| 15 | Remind me before the end of this lesson and we 'll have a little look at how to get full stops right cos it 's not too hard with those . |
| 16 | I 've had good Christmases since but it 's a feeling I can not shed . |
| 17 | You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ . |
| 18 | The above two examples give body to the suggestion by Alan Clarke that early learning , in itself , is of no more consequence than learning at any other stage of development , and that it will bring about long-term effects only if it is repeatedly reinforced throughout subsequent childhood . |
| 19 | Trim the top of one of the cakes so that it is flat . |
| 20 | What I will do , is I 'll split , there are two erm , has got to comply with the procedure or there is a procedure change and I 'll split that into two columns so that it 's a bit more clear |
| 21 | People do n't reject Darwin 's book on the emotions just because it 's , it 's rather heavily tainted with Lamarckism . |
| 22 | ‘ Once this is ready it must get to the plates quickly while it 's hot . ’ |
| 23 | In the same way , we think that credit agreements could usefully include a strike-out clause , arranging credit insurance and adding its cost to the instalments automatically unless it is struck out . |
| 24 | It cuts well , and splits beautifully , an burns even when it is green ; and it is a fast grower . |
| 25 | However , words need not always have a consistent meaning attributed to them : the context may show that the same word bears two different senses even when it is repeated in the same section . |
| 26 | I 'll even pay what Langbaurgh council would have to pay the bus companies even if it 's £80 , it would save me money . ’ |
| 27 | And I 'd say well if there are two parents there whether it 's whether they 're married or whether they 're not , the parents are there together , it was shared equally . |
| 28 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 29 | Possible explanations for a difference between older and younger women are that the operation has a delayed effect , that the operative technique has changed over the years so that it is less likely to affect bowel function , or that gynaecologists are doing fewer operations on women with pelvic pain of intestinal origin . |
| 30 | When it came to structuring the District Health Authorities in the form which existed until 1990 , the Department of Health stipulated that ‘ it is important to make appointments only where it is likely that prospective members will have the health and vigour to make an effective contribution throughout their term of office . |