Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it was twice or three times in a year . |
| 2 | Everything was er so much more difficult than it , than it is today and er things were not sort of disposed of like they are now . |
| 3 | At that time , ultrasonagraphy was less developed than it is today and was not available in all 10 treatment centres . |
| 4 | Crime is lower in their area than it is nationally and the clear-up rate is higher . |
| 5 | Volcanoes emit very large concentr very large amounts of hydrochloric acid as a gas H C L gas and earlier in the earth 's history volcanic activity was much , much more widespread than it is now and during this period vast amounts of H C L were emitted . |
| 6 | It was a bit of a pill at the time and y used to pay a shilling in the pound , well a shilling was a lot more valuable than it is now and erm I used to begrudge paying in it forty eight and sixpence but it does provide the , well the pleasures of life now , whereby the pens the ordinary old age pension would n't . |
| 7 | Those who are asking for that — many voices , including important voices , in Northern Ireland are asking for it — would create a situation for everybody in Northern Ireland that would be far worse than it is now and , God knows , it is bad enough at present . |
| 8 | The need for sound social democratic education was never greater than it was today and there was never a better opportunity for the building up of a strong National Socialist Party . |
| 9 | I 'm not sure you 've made it any clearer than it was before but erm |
| 10 | Its activities have grown with every year , but public financing has not , so it is more and more dependent on what it can extract through planning regulations from the developers and industrialists themselves . |
| 11 | He had n't touched the black box alarm so it was now or never . |
| 12 | It 's like it 's there and it 's staring us in the face but I just ca n't … ca n't access it . ’ |
| 13 | Moreover , if we make indiscriminate use of drafting , if it is invariably or artificially imposed , it may well lead to a child 's interest in writing declining . |
| 14 | When the ferret is re-entered he will either kill another rabbit if it is there or , if it is tucked up , he will scrap away at its hindquarters . |
| 15 | But it can only happen , he wrote , if it is totally and utterly divorced from me . |
| 16 | you might end up down to once a week if it 's twice or whatever |
| 17 | Okay , so the gradient which shows you how fast they 're going If it 's more or less horizontal , they 're still . |
| 18 | It 's too much , if you ever have too much you can just fold a bit down , if you have a big bandage you can fold either of those edges down first if you 've got too much and then you fold it forward and back , now your pin sticks in , but all the material and out of all the material and it goes in a straight upward direction , again it must go in that direction so that if per chance it comes undone it falls out and drops on the floor , whereas if it was sideways or downwards it would open and stick in your casualty , so that 's why we have it done that way . |
| 19 | ( Kelly 's more sophisticated approach gives figures between about 5 per cent and 10 per cent E. ) In a way it does not matter very much if our figure is not very accurate because it is seldom or never reached when testing real materials in bulk . |
| 20 | Such archived information is frequently used in research because it is more or less free ; but , to avoid fallacious conclusions arising from what is usually called secondary analysis , we must be prepared to think critically about the source , reliability and consistency of the data involved . |
| 21 | And er of course , one felt a little more a little happier after sort of meeting someone you know because it 's quite and I was very shy at that at that time . |
| 22 | Because it 's so and so |
| 23 | It could no more act as a ‘ watchdog ’ than a critical examiner of the actions of politicians or government because it was closely and inextricably tied to both . |
| 24 | The reason that this has been brought on , the reason that this er er agenda item brought to housing committee was basically er because it was there and er it 's I think it 's repulsive to bring forward to housing committee any er government regulations or we need to look at debating and er and that 's basically the reason . |
| 25 | . And this is why I choose the cutters because it was mechanically and er I I was quite with it , I was able to sort of get it going if it stopped , one road or another . |
| 26 | It was angry , but I felt safe because it was below and outside . |
| 27 | And now , nearly twenty years after it was well and truly over , she sometimes still reeled late at night with not understanding . |
| 28 | The model assumes that the buyer will pass through this series of steps , whether it be consciously or unconsciously , until the purchase is ( or is not ) made . |
| 29 | The North and the South must sort this one out themselves whether it be peaceably or with the gun . |
| 30 | However small it was ( and whether it is just or not ) , I have felt over the years that the Halton experience has enabled me ( despite my background ) to bridge the gap between those far off days , and reaching the rank of sergeant pilot , and the mid-war years when , in a few months , there was swift passage through the roles of flight commander , squadron commander , staff officer and station commander . |