Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the name of Powell is invoked to give legitimacy to the event ; it 's rather like getting the priest to bless your car . |
| 2 | Butyl liners can be repaired successfully with a patch and special adhesive ( it 's rather like repairing a puncture in a cycle inner-tube ) . |
| 3 | It 's rather like knowing your mother is always the same , ’ she told reporters . |
| 4 | It 's rather like deciding where to hang a picture on a blank wall . |
| 5 | I think it 's probably worth mentioning on that similar context following Mr 's comments about the false alarms , that the more successful we are at reducing those , the more that impacts on our budget because they take out for S S A , unlike road accidents . |
| 6 | But if all else is equal , it 's probably worth using a trader who offers an arbitration or bonding scheme . |
| 7 | Yeah , it 's probably worth changing the control in n it , to see what happens ? |
| 8 | Erm yeah so I mean that 's generally the way to go so I th I think you know it 's probably worth working away towards a , a more specific set of questions that you might want to ask and , and think of ways of administering them so you get some sort of , you know , numerical information in the end . |
| 9 | It 's not about proving it ; it 's a moral question . ’ |
| 10 | No , it 's not about taking chances in the commodities market but rather a kind of theatre of concern about human potential in our era of heightened environmental concern . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not about diving into the murky depths in search of treasure — that is just the impression we want to get away from ’ , insists Noel Fojut , Historic Scotland 's Principal Inspector responsible for underwater archaeology . |
| 12 | So having introduced the idea that I S O Nine Thousand is about improving our management competence , it 's not about improving our technical competence , we are technically very good . |
| 13 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 14 | THE campaign for keeping open Rosyth Dockyard is all very laudable as long as it 's not for servicing nuclear submarines . |
| 15 | If , in defence of your own attitudes , you do n't wish to examine them and believe that they are fixed , it 's not worth exposing yourself and listening to anything that might make you think differently . |
| 16 | So it 's not worth getting a job because we wo n't be as well off . |
| 17 | A BT spokesman said : ‘ It 's not worth getting your woggles in a twist over . ’ |
| 18 | He said bracingly , ’ 'Darling , it 's not worth getting upset . |
| 19 | It 's not worth getting that out is it ? |
| 20 | Yeah , it 's not worth getting some , no send them through , 'jama 's |
| 21 | I ca n't I ca n't really , I du n no it 's It 's not worth getting in trouble cos if this gets put on report |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not worth trying a surprise raid ? ’ |
| 23 | F of seven , what 's the next prime number , well it 's not worth trying the evens , nine obviously is n't prime , so eleven is the next one . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not worth risking . |
| 25 | Unless the price soars to beat £4.57 in the next week , it 's not worth bothering with the warrants . |
| 26 | We could have phoned Amy and found out there and then virtually , but I think we said oh , I , summat like i i it 's not worth bothering about , do n't matter just put . |
| 27 | It 's not worth looking on the box for the news because it 's , they 'll be nothing new . |
| 28 | That 's not to say that it 's not worth listening to : it clearly is , and it grows larger the more you hear it . |
| 29 | Now , quarter past seven , it 's not worth taping the rest of it |
| 30 | Now I do n't wan na , want me to prattle on much more tonight , if it 's not worth speaking about , I think it 's probably about enough |