Example sentences of "it be [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never has it been more important that News At Ten provide a big prime-time audience . |
| 2 | It is style that is the Navy 's hallmark , and nowhere in its long history has it been more evident than in those laconic naval signals in which the maximum humorous or dramatic impact is made in the minimum number of words . |
| 3 | Rarely has it been so clear that freedom is indivisible , and that attacks on one set of civil liberties are likely to be a part of a projected destruction of all such freedoms . |
| 4 | That 's a miserable farmhouse , and the people in it are perilously unhappy or I 'm a monkey 's uncle . |
| 5 | But old age itself is not a disease , and many of the conditions associated with it are neither inevitable nor universal . |
| 6 | Melanie Henwood in her chapter on healthcare emphasises that old age itself is not a disease and that many of the conditions associated with it are neither inevitable or universal . |
| 7 | The second consequence of the failure to accord to walking the dominant role in urban transport that its trip share warrants , is that facilities for it are either absent or neglected . |
| 8 | Bake at 325°F ( 160°C ) gas mark 3 until the custard is just set but still trembling in the centre and the tops of the bread projecting from it are deliciously toasty and crusted . |
| 9 | Perhaps certain parts of it are more efficient than they were 10 or 15 years ago , but the sector is shrinking . |
| 10 | Average age for the ceasing of menstruation is around 50 , but the hot flushes and sweating that can accompany it are more common after the periods have ended , and may last from just a few months to more than five years . |
| 11 | Actually , sneering is n't at all big or clever and most people that do it are as soft as shite , really … |
| 12 | Actually , sneering is n't at all big or clever and most people that do it are as soft as shite , really … |
| 13 | In the middle there is a little pond with a fountain , and the golden carp that swim in it are so tame that they come at the sound of Dennis 's voice . |
| 14 | The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS . |
| 15 | The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS . |
| 16 | will it be completely void or void in so far as it be more to the point |
| 17 | Should it be outrageously new or timeless ? |
| 18 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |
| 19 | Would not it be legally wise and politically sensible not to go ahead with the compulsory order to bring in bulldozers until difficulties with the European Commission and local people have been resolved ? |
| 20 | ‘ Would it be so terrible if they knew ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Would it be so bad if you were ? ’ |
| 22 | " If we have been unable to give Spain greater well-being " , he said , " let it be very clear that this has been due to foreign incomprehension . " |
| 23 | When you say slightly larger will it be more visible or , I mean the present one is partially hidden in actual fact . |
| 24 | If the underclass theorists have got it right , argues Kinsey , then nowhere will it be more apparent than among the children of welfare-dependent single-mother families . |
| 25 | ‘ Would it be more comfortable if I sat on your lap ? ’ |
| 26 | Will it be as close as that ? |
| 27 | Will it be as easy as it looks on paper ? |
| 28 | Will it be as good as last year 's ? |
| 29 | I fully I fully accept that , er you would obviously build in the facilities which are necessary , but the most of the settlements are limited by existing physical and other constraints , and those can not be overcome , you can not duel the A nineteen as far as Easingwold without very substantial harm , for example to the open countryside , even if it were physically possible and economically possible , to expand Easingwold , sorry , to expand Tadcaster to the required size , we 'd need to roll back greenbelt boundaries , again contrary to P P G two . |
| 30 | If menstruation was hidden — in theory , at least — the bodily changes which accompany it were clearly observable and indeed the outward signs of its invisible presence . |