Example sentences of "it is [adv] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 2 | Sometimes truth may be suppressed for a long time but while it is imprisoned it gathers to itself more and more power so that on the day that it is finally released it explodes , blowing everything asunder . |
| 3 | It is also hoped it will avoid the much faster wheelchairs catching the elite women runners — who start five minutes earlier — at an early point where they are running as a group and hard to pass . |
| 4 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) When looking at clauses which require compliance with time limits ( eg a time limit for notifying a warranty claim after a defect is discovered in goods supplied under the contract ) the question to ask is whether the time limit has been imposed from a genuine need to protect the other party 's position , or whether it is there to make it difficult , or practically impossible , for the other party to exercise its rights under the clause . |
| 6 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 7 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 8 | It is perhaps putting it a little high to say they are exercising judicial functions . |