Example sentences of "[conj] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean , it was a fluke that it all happened , because that kind of music was being played all through the South East — Louisiana , Arkansas , Mississippi , Tennessee . |
| 32 | ‘ But there 's so much music that we 've heard throughout our lifetimes that it all shows up as an influence . |
| 33 | History relates that it all began when Hahnemann was translating a treatise on materia medica written by the Scottish physician Dr William Cullen , a section of which dealt with the use of cinchona bark ( otherwise known as Peruvian bark ) from which we obtain quinine to treat malaria . |
| 34 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 35 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 36 | That 's about it for the plot , except to say that it all ends happily with the birth of a new egalitarian mobster alliance . |
| 37 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |
| 38 | But then to do it well , so that it all sounds extremely natural — so that it flows and sounds effortless — that requires a long preparation , which everyone at La Scala was happy to give it . |
| 39 | The absolute precision of the rhythmic detail in ‘ Reprises par Interversion ’ ( from Livre d'orgue ) would be spellbinding were it not for the fact that it all sounds as natural as breathing , and I marvel at Messiaen 's immaculate measuring of grace notes , not least the recurring four-note figure of ‘ La Vierge et L'Enfant ’ ( from La nativité ) ; how sensible it sounds , how easily it all flows . |
| 40 | We can now see that it all began in 1979 . |
| 41 | It is not enough to say , as successive reports from the IMF or the World Bank have tended to do , that it all depends on governments and that it is up to them how the economy prospers . |
| 42 | Husband and wife again particularly to plan a will so that it all ends up with the children if that is eventually what you want with no tax payable or a a a reduced amount of tax . |
| 43 | In a place like that it all depends how you get on with the screws : some lasses did take hell . |
| 44 | You may toil on a project enthusiastically for many years , only to find that it all comes to naught because of a political change of direction . |
| 45 | ‘ But you must agree that it all looks very strange . ’ |
| 46 | As Newton ( 1976 , p. 147 ) notes , the literature ‘ includes case studies of powerful officers , and powerless ones , as well as the conclusion that it all depends on the department ’ . |
| 47 | The fact that it all seems to come so pat : on top of the row with Viola , just after the publication of the book , just when the second book was going to bring her a lot of money . |
| 48 | You can spend quite a lot of time subsequently getting the machine configured just as you want it but at least you can relax in the knowledge that it all works and the difficult part of the upgrade is well and truly over . |
| 49 | Erm , I think that the most important point within the , the er , report Chairman , is in paragraph erm , three four , where the Rural Development Commission are , are saying very strongly that if there 's more than one area designated within the county and there are now three areas designated within Shropshire , in the past there was only one R D , R D A area , that it all runs through , there are now three separate R D A areas , the , the R D , the Rural Development Commission are recommending very strongly that if you do have that , then they should be managed by a single R DP Committee . |
| 50 | They made specific donations on the night in the knowledge that it all the proceeds were going to the cancer day ward and that helped to boost the figure . |
| 51 | The more I put in then , logically , the more determined I 'll be to see that it all goes through smoothly . |
| 52 | However , our married life was so brief , and it took place so long ago , that it all now seems a matter of very little importance . |
| 53 | Though no eye-witness survived , there is reason to believe that it all began with some Bavarian soldiers brewing up coffee — in a delightfully careless South German way — on upturned cordite cases , using explosive scooped out of hand grenades as fuel ! |
| 54 | I like to check that it all works you know ? |
| 55 | er apart from that it all went very well . |
| 56 | We 're off er well York this funny thing I got to see that it all goes through for my dad . |
| 57 | And that that shows that it that is true of working . |
| 58 | One defect was that it required proof of the likelihood of a breach of the peace as a result of the defendant 's conduct . |
| 59 | One of the reasons why this proposition was distasteful to many of Bruno 's contemporaries was that it deprived humanity of a privileged place in the cosmos . |
| 60 | I think that it best meets that very important criterion . |