Example sentences of "it [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 2 | The degree of selective pressure towards co-operation group awareness , and identification was so strong , and the period over which it operated was so extended ( at least three million years , and probably even longer ) , that it can hardly fail to have become embedded to some measure in our genetic makeup ( 1977 : 209 , emphasis ours ) . |
| 3 | The radical consequences of relationism and what it overthrows are neatly described by Loader : |
| 4 | So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner . |
| 5 | The helplessness of that figure and the hopelessness it conveyed was always there . |
| 6 | Oddly the land on which it sits was actually called Folly Hill before the building was added , as if it was fated to be there . |
| 7 | While The Excursion ( 1814 ) contains a Pastor and a Churchyard , the Christianity it offers is still minimal ; Wordsworth himself says that it illustrates ‘ the Bible of the Universe , as it speaks to the ear of the intelligent ’ . |
| 8 | Clearly one source is unreliable , and the interpretations which it offers are heavily biased . |
| 9 | The sores that it produces are usually found on the external surface of the penis in the male , but rarely the site of infection may be inside the urethra , and in these cases recurrent ‘ non-specific urethritis ’ may occur , which is particularly resistant to treatment . |
| 10 | It was not a big watch but the noise it made was much bigger than you would have expected . |
| 11 | The first of the three conceptions of law I introduced in the last chapter , which I called conventionalism , shares the general ambition of the popular slogan , though the interpretation it builds is more subtle in two ways . |
| 12 | A professional body may find that the qualifications of an applicant to the profession it regulates are only partially equivalent to those required of their own nationals . |
| 13 | During the 1960s the scheme was widened to include more categories of workers and the financial assistance it provided was also considerably raised . |
| 14 | The damage done can be much worse than from a fire — while the chances of it happening are much higher . |
| 15 | I could n't swear that a thalidomide sort of accident will never happen again , but the chance of it happening are much less . |
| 16 | Like power , money as it stands is neither a good nor a bad commodity . |
| 17 | The crucial factor of associational appositeness relating a symbol to what it symbolizes is rarely seen directly and explicitly , although heraldry is replete with such purpose-built symbols . |
| 18 | Indeed , it has been lately feared … ’ |
| 19 | That has been the Government 's argument for a national curriculum — it has been broadly accepted — but we need a national curriculum that is secure and delivered by the inspectorate . |
| 20 | It has been persuasively argued by Ashworth ( 1993a : 59–68 ) that the myth of judicial independence has no foundation in constitutional reality , for Parliament is at liberty to legislate on any aspect of sentencing should it choose to . |
| 21 | The captain is now advised to store it in a bank , after it has been duly admired by friends and family , though I know one captain kept it under his bed , causing his mother a lot of sleepless nights ! |
| 22 | It is usual to make specific provision for service of such notices , eg at the last known home address of a partner , in a way that will afford evidence that it has been duly given ( eg by registered delivery , entry in the firm 's post book etc ) . |
| 23 | ‘ However much analogy may lead us to conjecture the universal prevalence of law and orderly sequence , it has been acutely remarked that the phenomena which are most immediately important to the life and welfare of man are precisely those which he has never been , and probably never will be , able to reduce to a scientific calculation . |
| 24 | But perhaps worst of all , it has been clearly demonstrated that while a change in attitudes to a brand or product can precede a purchase of that brand , it can equally well follow the purchase : does attitude change influence a purchase , or does it merely result from it ? — since people often feel the need to justify a purchase , especially a major purchase , after they have made it . |
| 25 | In the United States it has been clearly demonstrated that they do . |
| 26 | But in any case it has been clearly apparent to all fieldworking anthropologists for at least sixty years that the various kinds of performance which have , in the past , been assigned to the categories " magic " , " religion " , " magico-religious " , are expressions of artistic creativity rather than misguided attempts to control the material world by mechanical means . |
| 27 | It has been clearly expressed ( Anon 1970 ) 4 that merely counting ‘ publication rate would not distinguish between the fluency of genius and the loud noises of empty vessels . ’ |
| 28 | It has been clearly expressed ( Anon 1970 ) that merely counting ‘ publication rate would not distinguish between the fluency of genius and the loud noises of empty vessels . ’ |
| 29 | It has been subtly shifting the goalposts of what can be done in and through art . |
| 30 | It has been reliably reported with large doses of intrathecal morphine and diamorphine and probably occurs occasionally with large daily doses of the same drugs intravenously . |