Example sentences of "[is] [adv] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 2 | Talking about privatising the National Health Service and opting out of the National Health Service is not actually very helpful because people do n't believe that , they do n't believe it 's er N H S P L C. They do not , it is not a British Gas , it is not a British Telecom , they know it 's not and it devalues your argument if you talk of it in those terms , and it allows Waldergrave to stand up and to renounce and reject your statements and weaken your case . |
| 3 | But extinction is forever and it does n't do the world much good to save a seed for a year or two . |
| 4 | Virtual reality is currently virtually nothing like reality and more like the confusion you get if you 've drunk heavily on antibiotics , but Interactive Video is here and it works . |
| 5 | The tension 's there and it comes out in bits and bobs , either on one of the girls or one of the staff . |
| 6 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 7 | but it 's not the hexagon shaped one , it 's round and it 's got an orange lid on it and an orange side |