Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or when he left the table on two occasions , ’ Auguste said firmly , remembering Sir Thomas 's absence after the meal , which had been longer surely than it took merely to change his clothes for those of Bill Sikes . |
| 2 | Unfortunately for IBM , its problems are not simply that it has too many staff . |
| 3 | It will be all right because it 's got to be all right , it 's necessary — without it the world ends . ’ |
| 4 | They both were astonished that so far no indication of trouble had come from the town common ; but reckoned that it would not be long now before it did , for a few escapers from the castle had been glimpsed running in that direction . |
| 5 | Well , I was n't prepared to believe that my career would be over almost before it had started . |
| 6 | The classes are on Tuesday evenings from 7.15 to 9.15 pm , a two-hour session which seems to be over almost before it has started , such is the enjoyment . |
| 7 | They have to be already there or it does n't er really work . |
| 8 | ‘ We are going to be here forever and it does not matter what happens in Madrid , ’ said a spokesman for the Jewish settlers . |
| 9 | It would therefore not be too long before it settled down to a stationary state . |
| 10 | I looked around at the place ; I had been here before but it had never looked so huge . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been there before and it has often worked out well for me . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been there before and it has often worked out well for me . |
| 13 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 14 | Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ . |
| 15 | This is so even though it had absolutely no contractual effect and operated to non-one 's detriment . |
| 16 | Sooner or later , the knee will have to make a move , but now it is immobilised by the two flies , the lower of which is so still that it seems dead . |
| 17 | The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party . |
| 18 | But all is not quite as it appears . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of OSO is not only that it has continued as a headquarters unit functioning from Glasgow for so long , but that it survived the Thatcher era as an interventionist wing of Government intended to nudge work in the direction of British industry . |
| 20 | This is not only because it has a weak case — as we show elsewhere ( this issue , p 76 ) , there are certainly some doubts about the validity of the CEGB 's claims that Sizewell B will reduce the cost of electricity in England and Wales by allowing the board to burn less coal — but also because it is difficult to see what the inspector can say about economics when he comes to writing his final report . |
| 21 | Well it 's not just that it destroyed |
| 22 | It 's not actually cos it causes real problems . |
| 23 | Erm well what I , what happens , I think that 's good , it 's act it 's not , it 's not inside because it 's encapsulated , it 's not inside because it 's held in there by the socket joint if I draw , draw you a picture , it 's not because the socket joint is so tight it ca n't fall out , is that what you 're saying to me ? |
| 24 | As a story line it 's not all because it does n't say anything about the girl , it does n't say where she 's going , where she 's come from and what 's happening on the way . |
| 25 | At least Stoke-by-Nayland is still almost as it appeared to Constable 's eye . |
| 26 | There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now . |
| 27 | FreeHand is still there but it has now been joined by Illustrator 88 . |
| 28 | When the radio is playing , they think to themselves that nothing serious can be wrong because the background noise is still there and it reassures them . ’ |
| 29 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 30 | In some ways ending a marriage is now easier than it has ever been . |