Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 Christian Aid has encouraged me to see whether it is feasible to work towards a nationally-recognized , cross-agency , accredited system of training in human resource development , concentrating on communication and campaigning skills , which would probably be organized in a modular/portfolio style .
2 It can be as difficult for them to adjust as it is for the individual in distress .
3 Spots , and in some cases acne , can result from testosterone excess and it may help them to know that it is a passing affliction .
4 ‘ I think I can rely on you to see that it is not .
5 I wanted you to confirm that it is in fact his .
6 I come to you to know if it is true that you hold him here in your charge . ’
7 People were sitting the main point of the chair is is to enable you to write and it 's actually very satisfactory to write in , it 's just the right height .
8 Now I I 've chosen an example w with a Conservative Secretary of State and the Labour majority , but I ask the Noble Lords on all , in all parts of the House to think it could work the other way round , because a Labour Secretary of State could exercise exactly these powers in an area where with a er Conservative majority on on er on on the local council or councils and I ask the House to think of this , not in a party er as a as a party issue between Labour , Conservative or Liberal Democrat , I just ask you to consider whether it is right for a Secretary of State of any political persuasion to er secure by appointment to a police authority a political control from the centre of that police authority , because that is what the Government 's presents proposals would still achieve and er it is our view and it is the view of which is which is finds expression in Amendments five , eight and eleven that the we should return to the tripartite system of p of policing which policing is a partnership between the Chief Constable er the local authority in the area and the Home Secretary , that er tripartite arrangement has worked extremely well for thirty years , there have been minor conflicts in some parts of the country , but nothing to justify the wholesale removal of of of the partnership which is now proposed .
9 I am writing to you to ask if it is possible to obtain drawings , designs and or working instructions for making what is known as a Steamer Chair .
10 ‘ Who are you to tell if it 's misguided and inappropriate ?
11 Do you really expect me to believe that it 's out of respect for my position that you insist on calling me Mr Vass ? ’
12 You implore them to believe that it is an object with certain transformation properties under rotations .
13 In fact social life in the evenings will be easier in every way for him to find than it is for a widow , who can not go out alone at night without some feeling of apprehension , and who would generally anyway feel out of place sitting on her own in a saloon bar .
14 He stressed , ‘ We only want him to come if it 's right .
15 About er refurbishment and closure programme Mr talked about , a a refurbishment and closure programme is a Tory programme , not a Labour programme and of course this is all verified by Mrs coming along to the committee and saying please do n't close Barleythorpe Hall , please tell the people that you 're going to re-open Barleythorpe Hall , please do not allow them to think that it 's going to close .
16 you 've just bought a car or you 've got a car you can take it and the police look over it to see if it 's alright .
17 We 've got accountants working on it to see if it is at all possible .
18 We 've got accountants working on it to see if it is at all possible .
19 Yeah I mean the would be very nice if you could get it to go cos it is it is quite acceptable speech .
20 ‘ If a child ca n't see how it 's performing , ’ demanded Mr Stannard , ‘ how 's it to know if it 's doing well or not ?
21 Suffice it to say that it is likely to be difficult — if not impossible — for each school to maintain a balance of consultants .
22 For example we can use it to show that it is possible to pivot from any primal feasible tableau ( T1 ) corresponding to a set of constraints to any other primal feasible tableau ( T2 ) for these constraints , maintaining primal feasibility .
23 Relative to the matter in hand I take it to mean that it is to do with the budget er to prepare for this County and do not er to be the irrelevancies of machination in other places .
24 Do you want me to say that it 's a fair cop or something ?
25 So , since they claim to know the complete and final story about the nature of mental substance , it is incumbent on them to show that it is impossible for the same consciousness to be transferred from one substance to another .
26 The Elizabethan playwright , Ben Jonson , challenges us to see that it is appropriate to appreciate everything :
27 ‘ It is unreasonable for us to accept that it is commonplace for people like our Cabinet Ministers to have affairs , and yet to consider that someone like the Prince of Wales is unfit for the job . ’
28 The theory of disengagement has led us to believe that it is a normal feature of growing old to withdraw from social life , that isolation and loneliness is a chosen path and not the product of enforced retirement , low income , low status and inadequate social provision .
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