Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hsiang p'ien tastes awful when it 's cold . ’ |
| 2 | I suppose because one is so helpless , there 's nothing you can do if anything goes wrong and it 's an awful long way down . |
| 3 | But anything goes wrong and it 's God 's fault ! |
| 4 | But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems . |
| 5 | A mismatched , haphazard gang of pots looks terrible and it is worth investing some decent money in creating a cohesive style . |
| 6 | This is an approach to gardening which looks good because it is good , common sense . |
| 7 | In any event , it is important that the dog stands still while it is being groomed . |
| 8 | It looks great when it 's down or in a simple self-knotted style . |
| 9 | If you put Tina 's number plate on another car and visa versa that would throw , I I 'd probably look at it and think you know , oh somebody 's got a new car or that looks familiar but it 's not the right car so I would n't think about it . |
| 10 | It looks new and it is n't listed on the inventory . ’ |
| 11 | I said it looks nice as it is and I do n't know if he will or not , I forgot to ask him on the phone . |
| 12 | It gets so dirty and it looks dirty if it 's not polished every day . |
| 13 | But it looks alright because it 's a big lawn . |
| 14 | The analogy with a mechanical process no longer rings true and it is unlikely that this case will be followed . |
| 15 | but it looks horrible when it 's right up . |
| 16 | Bitter chocolate may be added to meat sauces for extra flavour — it sounds odd but it is very good and originates from a traditional Mexican dish of turkey cooked with very hot peppers , the chocolate being added to slightly sweeten and round the sauce . |
| 17 | An elderly lady , this weekend actually , i it sounds funny but it 's rather serious what she said actually . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I know that sounds clichéd but it 's the truth . |
| 19 | It sounds simple but it is not , which is why for the time being Zurich seems to have stolen a march on its rivals . |
| 20 | A feature of their new show is a hilarious This Is Your Life , where they ad-lib a potted biography of a victim in the audience to a few hints given by the subject 's so-called friends , and the Christmas Story enacted in a series of styles chosen by those there on the night-Joseph and Mary as a double glazing sales force , for example , sounds tasteless but it 's all surprisingly inoffensive and very funny . |
| 21 | This sounds easy but it 's not when faced with 10 mean faces all wanting to ‘ splat ’ you . |
| 22 | It sounds easy but it is hard work , especially when trying not to crush creativity or step on the toes of hardworking marketing and advertising departments . |
| 23 | I know this sounds obvious but it 's surprising how many organisers depend on brochures , models and plans ( it 's fine to have those as well , of course ) or even their recollections of a place five years ago ( when it and your needs were different ) . |
| 24 | Sounds remarkable but it 's erm it 's true . |
| 25 | The fourth type of love is what the New Testament calls agape and it is this kind of love to which Jesus refers in calling on us to love our neighbour as ourself . |
| 26 | Well because there is er an industrial bias , erm what industrial bias means is that gets subsidized because it 's subsidized they can pay higher wages er erm so it 's not just the government jobs that are well paid it 's the industrial jobs . |
| 27 | All this sounds complicated but it is n't . |
| 28 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 29 | Something which seems to be soluble at some stage and the water gets hot and it 's not soluble , so we 're looking for things here that are not not soluble . |
| 30 | The slapping sea sounds nice but it 's insincere , flattering to deceive , flattering to deceive . |