Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This movement , as Rufus had no doubt intended , sent Mary toppling forward into Adam 's arms , her breasts lightly slapping into his chest in a way that would have been blissful if it had been allowed to continue but Mary , drunk as she was , had sprung aside , actually sprung to her feet , and rather late in the day hugged her arms across her chest . |
| 2 | But at high NO concentrations , ozone levels are low as it reacts with NO to form NO&sub2 ; . |
| 3 | We respond to all four strongly , but cats are weak when it comes to sweet tastes . |
| 4 | I am sorry if it means opposing the official candidate , but I would vote for Frank Field . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I am sorry if it seems I have tricked you , my dear Watson . |
| 6 | It is not intended to be and I am sorry if it appears so . |
| 7 | ‘ We have had our differences and I am sorry if it has caused offence . ’ |
| 8 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 9 | They are stingy when it comes to overheads : in most discount stores , there are few staff in sight and goods are sold out of the boxes they come in . |
| 10 | We pray for those who are sad because it has been the first Christmas without a loved one , and who grieve with their memories . |
| 11 | The trouble is local authorities are autonomous when it comes to applying trading standards but Haverfordwest seems out of step with other councils on the issue . |
| 12 | The only thing is i it would have been nicer if it had of printed . |
| 13 | But the civil servants have been vague when it comes to the detail of who is to be the competent authority , who is to foot the bill for its work ( and any extra studies it may require before giving consent ) , and how much of its deliberations are to be made public . |
| 14 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 15 | ‘ Jamie says you 're ruthless when it comes to getting what you want . ’ |
| 16 | A And then again have chair , you know , pe , people are reticent of it , they 're frightened if it goes |
| 17 | ‘ I have been lucky when it has come to the crunch but in life you make your own luck . |
| 18 | Cox argued that the interception had been unlawful because it did not meet the published criteria regulating such interceptions . |
| 19 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
| 20 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 21 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 22 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
| 23 | I am intrigued if it does n't like wind rock , how it manages to survive on the drove roads over the downs that where Gerard . |
| 24 | It had seven base stones and four capstones ; she knew it well ; she had been present when it had been discoverd and excavated . |
| 25 | The machinery of employer reaction may have been rustier than it seemed to be . |
| 26 | Before leaving the ministry in mid-1861 the sensible Evgraf Kovalevskii came up with a programme for reducing the volatility of the universities which might have been effective if it had been introduced gradually . |
| 27 | I am sure when it opens in May 1992 , golfers will appreciate its outstanding beauty . |
| 28 | The relief on Joe 's face would have been comic if it had n't been so worrying . |
| 29 | This was widely regarded as indicating a warmer attitude towards NATO , in which France 's position had been ambiguous since it withdrew from its integrated military structure in 1966 . |
| 30 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |