Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next . |
| 2 | Do you kn erm on the subject of I know last last time I came when I spoke to you that you were saying about you were saying about religion and it was and the fact that you erm go to church . |
| 3 | That 's right , I mean why di why have we got the structure of agriculture as we have , you know why why do we still have an atomistical industry right , it 's not just a , a freak of nature , there are economic laws , erm , and opinion that s , that structure the industry and it 's because you just do n't get economies of scale staying in agriculture . |
| 4 | And when I took those I did n't come down for a , and that frightened me , I said to Russell I will never ever take speed because it 's if , I was er we were in the pub right on a Sunday morning and I was there but I was n't there , I was somewhere else . |
| 5 | On any model , when knitting the neckline , start with the second side of the neck with the carriage on the same side as it was when you started the first side of the neck . |
| 6 | Yes , erm Arthur as I have mentioned earlier was erm the fourth in command as it were and erm if I can just sort of go down the erm the pecking order , mm , Leslie was the Chief Education Officer . |
| 7 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 8 | Next week we start the second part of the course , our erm , our key as it were and we 'll look at the first one with er . |
| 9 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 10 | We have a very detailed management plan on the reserve with our main aim being to maintain the habitat as it is and to ensure that any disturbance to the bird community is minimal . |
| 11 | It might seem odd to talk about entry halls as a postscript as it were but in practical terms most people put decorating their living rooms first . |
| 12 | People passed by without a glance in her direction and it was as though she had suddenly become invisible . |
| 13 | Ironically , the Great War would not have been the war that it was if it were not for the machine . |
| 14 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 15 | Too may newly unemployed people say to themselves , in effect : ‘ I 've lost my job and it 's because I 'm useless . |
| 16 | Well yeah but what you can see is the cellar because the torch beams have hit the cellar and it 's and it 's back into your eye . |
| 17 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 18 | Like erm , like Maureen she 's erm she 's worried for Joe , she says he do n't stop , he do n't , but you see the difference being is it 's Joe 's business and it 's as he said , some people do n't pay you for twelve months , and a lot of your money has gone out before you can get a chance to get it back in |
| 19 | The Realist approach , he remarks , gets its name from precisely this point : that it deals with human nature as it is and not as it ought to be , and with historical events as they have occurred , not as they should have occurred . |
| 20 | Nor can any reconstructed , facsimile wilderness ever approach the condition of nature as it was before human influence became dominant . |
| 21 | Will he also introduce training schemes to put the United Kingdom back where it was before we had a Tory Government and to take it out of this recession ? |
| 22 | ‘ When I got back and found your note I did n't think for a minute that it was because you thought I was the father of the child . |
| 23 | But exploitation produces conflict and it is because of the conflict inherent in each stage of development that history is the unfolding of a drama in which we move from one kind of society to another and which ultimately leads to socialism . |
| 24 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 25 | There was a sign but it was and it was just cracked so cars behind me were just driving over it and nobody could , you ca n't see it . |
| 26 | Well I suppose you could erm I suspect it would be cheaper than but it would n't actually increase your pension per se at the end of the day because it 's as I said it 's a separate you know it 's a separate sort of erm income to your pension lump sum . |
| 27 | And erm well we wrapped up a whole pile of paper for paper paper recycling and erm we mushed it up and the best of the stuff we put in the liquidizer and erm we put it in a tank and dyed left some stuff as it were and we dyed some other stuff green . |
| 28 | I just did n't know it was as much of a tribute as it was until I was told … rather abruptly ! |
| 29 | What is is this come to light after the event as it were or did you know that was there when we were redoing the machine ? |
| 30 | In the beginning , okay believed in and or whatever you wan na call it , but it also believed in other gods as well , except he was the chief god , he was number one god as it were and he 's the one you got to follow . |