Example sentences of "be [adj] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely marriage and prostitution are separate and it insults marriage to infer that they thrive on one another ? |
| 2 | People know this , they identify with this , they recognise that you 're back-tracking and it looks as though your ke case is hereby weakened . |
| 3 | It is recognised in planning circles that planning applications for fish and chip shops are contentious and it has been said that whilst ‘ Joe Public wants hot food shops he does not want them near him and he is prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop anyone opening one near his house ’ . |
| 4 | The learning process from this project has been invaluable and it 's allowed Save The Children to move forward in several other countries . |
| 5 | Often this has been because THE new housing market has been buoyant and it has been acknowledged that this market can not be missed as , at best , it is lost for a CONSIDERABLE time . |
| 6 | Like the insect , its span has been short and it has already been superseded by the Double Whammy campaign . |
| 7 | Its moisturising formula is ideal for natural curls or for permed hair as both hair types tend to be dry and it costs £1.19 for a 200ml bottle . |
| 8 | To be effective , an innovation has to be simple and it has to be focused . |
| 9 | I could see he was going to be humble and it depressed me . |
| 10 | In other words , publishing commitments have to be substantial and it does not take much to sap confidence when the risk is so high . |
| 11 | ‘ Although I 'm champion and it 's been a wonderful year I feel I ca n't truly call myself the title holder until I beat Joey on the roads . ’ |
| 12 | Four other colourways are available and it comes in five widths , about £23.50 per sq m Accessories : Yellow photograph album , £12.50 ; Jennifer Tuckey stationery , £8.95 and £9.50 Best for : Any room , but especially suitable for halls and stairs |
| 13 | However , from such a small island herd the exports have been phenomenal and it has spread from the tropics to the Arctic . |
| 14 | " You were upset and it seemed simpler to see you both together , but I will now give you information about all the bequests and tell you what I have arranged about probate and death duties . " |
| 15 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 16 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 17 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
| 18 | Another reason for the lack of interest in PEPS is that its benefits were predictable and it tied up clients ' money for at least a year . |
| 19 | The physical demands were enormous and it says much for the exceptional fitness of both crews that neither wilted . |
| 20 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy claimed the move would deliver to Solaris the three volume chips likely to survive : PowerPC , Sparc and Intel as SunSoft resources are moved off the new Intel Corp version , he said , they would be dedicated on the PowerPC — McNealy said this would be ready in late 1993 and SunSoft president Ed Zander immediately stepped up to contradict him , saying the date would more likely be early next year ; few details were available and it remains to be seen who would use it and how it will be sold . |
| 21 | Her curtains were open and it went across her window in the sky . |
| 22 | Of all these , Augmentations was probably the most remarkable , since its accounting processes were modern and it used a more rational system for collecting revenues than did the old Exchequer . |
| 23 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 24 | By opening night , they were ecstatic and it has to be said , the brightest , the best , and the most appreciative audience we 'd played to . |
| 25 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 26 | It 's big , it 's loud and it wears an ill-fitting suit : more ‘ youth ’ telly inanity on REMOTE CONTROL before NME 's own kings of pestilence Collins and Maconie perform more of their light-hearted haircuts , sorry , comic turns for MARK GOODIER . |
| 27 | Right now the gossip in the town is that Ingrid is pregnant and it looks as though Olive King is about to become a star … about time too ! |
| 28 | It is eternal and it illuminates despair . |
| 29 | And I think it 's great , and it 's uniformed and it 's played at the opening of , of the Fire Service technical college at Morton March , it was invited to play there with the other bands and erm before the Queen , and er so it 's , it 's gone on , from strength to strength and we are very proud of it , we really are . |
| 30 | A copy of the 1991 Census datasets will be deposited at the ESRC Data Archive ( where it will join the data from previous Censuses ) when the data is complete and it appears that all corrections have been made . |