Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company adds that it is already benefiting from increased efficiency and expects a large return on its financial investment in Weldon . |
| 2 | Tom adds that it is very important for young horses to have their teeth checked before they are bitted and broken ; racehorses usually have their first session at two years-old . |
| 3 | Taken in with his bottle of National Dried Milk and vitamin drops that it was all right to kill . |
| 4 | In Greek tragedy , in most of Jane Austen 's novels , a leading figure in the drama realises with a sense of shock that the world is other than once imagined , and accepts that it is so . |
| 5 | Catt accepts that it was only a minor detail in her boyfriend 's sacking but feels it has a relevance . |
| 6 | Beattie concludes that it is only during the hesitant phase of a speech cycle that the clause is a major unit of speech planning . |
| 7 | ‘ So it looks like it 's all solved already . |
| 8 | Looks like it 's very inhabitable . |
| 9 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 10 | But even in democratic societies knowledge of the past changes as historical scholarship develops and it is often found that the official record of the time under study contains errors or even deliberate falsification . |
| 11 | now I am retired and er yes last year I was feeling a bit decrepit , you know I used to go for a full wal walk round after lunch , after dinner , around where she lives and it 's much harder now . |
| 12 | He has not done a lot of opera but thinks that it is just the way things worked out . |
| 13 | He thinks that it is more important to convince doctors that ‘ teaching ’ is a broad term and covers much of what they do every day and to ensure that they receive adequate training and support to carry it out well . |
| 14 | If you are asking me where the remedy lies , my answer is that I have told you before and I shall go on telling you , and you know perfectly well what it is , though everybody thinks that it is too difficult and that therefore there must be a different remedy . |
| 15 | When one thinks that it is so easy to simply discard direct mail , it is more difficult to ignore a telephone call , especially if the message is ‘ personalised ’ . |
| 16 | Now Councillor thinks that it was just an accident and people will understand . |
| 17 | In its latest World Development Report , the World Bank acknowledges that some of its past policies have led to environmental degradation , but insists that it is now geared toward promoting sustainable development and , in particular , the alleviation of third world poverty . |
| 18 | She insists that it was entirely benign . |
| 19 | In Claude Berri 's latest film , ‘ Uranus ’ , he knocks back a whole bottle of wine without pausing for breath ; although he insists that it was merely coloured water , his fans believe otherwise . |
| 20 | But anyone who knows anything about it understands that it is very far removed from being an ‘ interchangeable with Labour ’ vote . |
| 21 | When one thinks , however , that coming up the Sacred Way one 's first sight of the building would be the corner , the long Gigantomachy stretching in front of one , the combat of the east abutting on it and the seated gods closing the composition at the end , one understands that it is so designed to suit its position ; as the formal archaic structure of the west frieze suits the highly decorated frontally approached entrance-façade . |
| 22 | While he strongly believes that violence produces results ( presumably by dramatising the point in question ) he agrees that it is morally wrong . |
| 23 | The practical difficulties of nursing a sick relative can be very great , but Pitkeathley agrees that it is often the emotional upset of having to bath a previously fastidious mother , or pretend your father has spilt his tea when the bed is wet , or simply having to make all the decisions for a once strong parent , which cases the most upset . |
| 24 | The theory of the second-best says that it is allocatively more efficient to spread inevitable distortions thinly over many markets than to concentrate their effects in a few markets . |
| 25 | Koons says that it is exactly this childlike aspect that makes her vulnerable to the tacky mandarins of the porn industry , whom Koons loathes , despite the mountain of mad flesh in Made in Heaven . |
| 26 | The government turns its head aside from government support — apart from words — and says that it is either the employers ' responsibility or the employees ' … |
| 27 | Walter says that it is probably a wedding but suggests that we investigate . |
| 28 | AT&T says that it is already using the two components in its New Generation Testing system that troubleshoots toll-free 800 number services and can pinpoint problems on up to 42 lines simultaneously . |
| 29 | Joining fees have yet to be set , but the Forum says that it is particularly looking for users to join its efforts . |
| 30 | In addition , Article 23 says that it is especially forbidden ( a ) ‘ to employ poison or poisoned weapons ’ ; ( d ) ‘ to declare that no quarter will be given ’ ; and ( e ) ‘ to employ arms , projectiles or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering ’ . |