Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 2 | Books by , and about , lesbians have been in comparative abundance in the last 5 years or so but it 's debatable whether this literary output has served as insular affirmations or taken lesbian sexuality a little further down the road of acceptance . |
| 3 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 4 | In fact I have made one very important friend in the past week or so and it 's ironic that your last letter is responsible for this friendship ! |
| 5 | Okay so it 's being fairly cloudy this morning around er , well the last half hour or so and it 's going to black for a fair while across lunchtime . |
| 6 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 7 | It will need renewing every seven years or so as it is not long-lived . |
| 8 | Put the filling into the pre-baked pastry case and bake at 350°F ( 180°C ) gas mark 4 for 20 min or so until it is hot and just set . |
| 9 | Membership is gained consciously or unconsciously and it is often difficult to determine the time when a person becomes a member . |
| 10 | Back in January , at the beginning of the hearing , Baker said ‘ No plutonium produced in CEGB reactors has been applied to weapons use either in the UK or elsewhere and it is the policy of the government and of the CEGB that this situation should continue . ’ |
| 11 | The rules are beautifully simple , but its branching ratio is 300 or more and it is more subtle than chess . |
| 12 | No relevant issues were raised , no acknowledgment that rape is about male power , or even that it is wrong . |
| 13 | It does not follow that , because the legal system systematically discriminates against black people , such discrimination is its raison d'être , or even that it is the outcome of the undoubted prejudices of the police or judiciary . |
| 14 | Or even that it 's a Sunday at all ? ’ |
| 15 | This may be given by reference to time elapsing after the date of issue of the document , and it is quite possible for the time-limit to be passed before the document can be served or even before it is received by the Central Authority . |
| 16 | ‘ Or even if it is the right . |
| 17 | However , s14(3) comes into its own where the purpose in question is not a common one , or even if it is a common one the goods are fit for some other common purpose thereby making them merchantable . |
| 18 | The court may have ordered one party 's solicitor to conduct the conveyancing ; but if not so , it would seem appropriate ( assuming the husband to be the conveyancing or transferring party ) for the husband 's solicitors , if the house is in the sole name or even if it is in the joint names of the husband and wife , to deliver to the wife 's solicitors an epitome of title consisting of a copy of the last conveyance , copy of any mortgage , copies of any documents relating to " sales-off " or other transactions affecting the property and copies of any covenants affecting the same . |
| 19 | As we shall see , a gene may increase in frequency not because it increases the fitness of its carrier but because it associates with other genes that do , or even because it is in a sense parasitic on other genes . |
| 20 | There are a number of circumstances in which the Commission may consider that a restriction on competition does not of itself fall within Article 85(1) because of the economic context in which it operates or alternatively where it is appropriate to grant individual exemptions . |
| 21 | It is an option that is not very often used , either through choice or simply because it is not much publicised . |
| 22 | Put ½ lb. of fine dried apricots to soak in water just to cover for a couple of hours — or overnight if it is more convenient . |
| 23 | Take a pair of binoculars with you so that when you spot surface activity in a distant area you can use them to confirm or otherwise that it is bream which are the cause . |
| 24 | The point , therefore , is to validate Marxism , to show that it is not simply a method of interpretation , nor even that it is the best method of interpretation that can most successfully account for the facts and the course of history , but to prove a priori that history works according to dialectical structures , and to demonstrate ‘ the moments of their inter-relations , the ever vaster and more complex movement which totalises them and , finally , the very direction of the totalization , that is to say , the ‘ meaning of History ’ and its Truth , ( I , 69 ) . |
| 25 | In this conclusion nothing is explained ; all that is provided is a terminology ( the distinction between the body-as-it-is-for-me or body qua sensitive ; and the body-in-the-midst-of-the-world or body qua sensible ) which makes it possible to state the ‘ natural ’ answer unambiguously and so that it is not open to logical difficulties . |
| 26 | There is only one way : in terms of symbolic representations of the predicates , as in ‘ X is a chair and only if it is a portable seat for one person ’ . |
| 27 | If you need urgent information you are invited to use the following telephone number but , please , only use it between 19.00 and 21.00 on Mondays to Thursdays and only if it is absolutely necessary … |
| 28 | Together the analogues of 1.4.10 and 1.3.7 show that , in Q[x] , an element is prime if and only if it is irreducible . |
| 29 | The Chinese consider the clenched fist as a weak and vulnerable weapon , to be used rarely and only if it is aimed at a soft part of the body . |
| 30 | He prepares to do so , and only when it is clear that he will obey the divine command does God at the last moment spare his son and tell him to kill a sheep instead . |