Example sentences of "[prep] it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of it 's vastly populated and punctuated by well defined compact small market towns and villages . |
| 2 | The trouble is that some of it 's still attached and so it 's going start erm bu butting again , growing . |
| 3 | If , moreover , ‘ the senses reveal no necessities ’ ( to quote an old tag ) , then our mental grasp of it is not given by the senses . |
| 4 | Twelve kilometres to the north-east of it is somewhere better : Sauveterre-de-Béarn , an interesting old place sat up above the Gave d'Oloron . |
| 5 | We are a high-consumption society and we have got to conserve the national resource and make sure that every part of it is effectively used . |
| 6 | Much of it is intensively managed grassland carrying a heavy stocking of dairy cattle . |
| 7 | Apart from the fact that much of it is badly executed — the uneven paving is a disgrace in a city full of fine Victorian craftsmanship — it seems to many meretricious and , above all , out of place . |
| 8 | Much of it is also written specifically for specialists , being virtually impenetrable to the uninitiated reader . |
| 9 | While much international tourism is undertaken to enjoy cultural attributes , much of it is also prompted by scenic , wildlife and marine features . |
| 10 | M most of it is just formalizing what we 're doing and formalizing the changes in the establishment |
| 11 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 12 | Much of this written work can be done alone , but some of it is best achieved in collaboration ; it might be that the purpose of the drama is to work together to produce documents , for example : The letters written by the sailors on the Mary Rose as they left port ( had they been able to write ) . |
| 13 | Much of it is n't recorded in great detail , so one is left to read between the lines about the activities that were involved . |
| 14 | If I said some of it is n't made from the words or the message some of it is made from the tone of your voice . |
| 15 | In this it is related to the heads of the Two Nudes painted a few months earlier , but as opposed to them , it is more completely mask-like , and every area or section of it is clearly defined and forms a self-contained unit . |
| 16 | The original stone-built block still survives , although much of it is rapidly decaying . |
| 17 | Instead of going directly to the academy 's institutes , much of it is now awarded to projects by committees representing science and industry . |
| 18 | Family Allowance , or Child Benefit as a modified version of it is now known , has not always had the unequivocal support of the entire women 's movement . |
| 19 | I I 've learnt the Pitman school but to a basic level and a long time ago and a lot of it is now forgotten . . |
| 20 | Anyway you then look through it with the solution in and you 'll find that if , for example , you started off with it completely dark you 'll find it 's then grey cos the plane of light 's been rotated , now it 's where there was no light getting through now some of it is actually getting through , cos it 's been rotated . |
| 21 | The geographical spread of the mining industry is hard to ascertain , for much of it is poorly recorded , but incidental references in both ecclesiastical and secular sources show the existence of mines in Yorkshire , Staffordshire and Wales as well as in the North . |
| 22 | The field is a specialised one and the study of it is still producing refinements of previous discoveries . |
| 23 | Many people would balk at the thought of setting up a new business during a recession ; but to embark on a new accountancy partnership when half of it is about to have a baby would surely cause the strongest to flinch . |
| 24 | ‘ It do n't seem like it 's even begun . ’ |
| 25 | I can hear that car like it 's just going past here . |
| 26 | It might seem like it 's all going to fall apart at any minute , but that 's the key to it — it 's totally wrong to call them shambolic ; you have to be right on top of things to sound this loose . |
| 27 | The now well-honed Mould character traits are everywhere : his underlying cynicism , the ongoing mistrust of people and the bits where his head sounds like it 's about to explode . |
| 28 | ( 1.5 ) unc If none of the booleans in IF is true , the process behaves like STOP ( i.e. it comes to a complete halt without terminating ; a process sequentially composed with it is not allowed to start ) . |
| 29 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 30 | And even if you buy a cheap carpet to start with it 's not gon na last long as i , i , i |