Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Cos she 's quite pretty actually if she lost weight .
2 But she is still not quite as she was , I take it ? ’
3 Until we do , I would suggest , and it 's not just about until we do , then , I do n't think we 're going to make really serious dint with the number of children that we now have in care .
4 Newry defender Errol Lutton , called into the 20-strong Irish training panel earlier this week , has a chance to impress coach Cees Koppelaar , but it 's not clear yet whether he will line out for Ireland or for his club !
5 So that 's many hundred years ago now but it is er er it 's not long ago since I read that in w in museum in Ayloch
6 It 's not so long since we learned the link between eating certain ‘ E ’ numbers and the behaviour of highly disruptive children .
7 It 's not so long since it was in the United States and er I 'm quite shocked really , but I 'm er I mean Manchester did a terrific job really .
8 No it 's not m it 's not much it 's not much further than .
9 It 's not much further than .
10 Why it 's not much more than twelve hours since I saw you . ’
11 Joseph retorted : ‘ It 's not all right if she 's going around saying that . ’
12 So you should , it 's not that long since we 've oh is it two years we 've moved ?
13 I mean it 's not that long since that room was done
14 ‘ I decided that was the job that appealed and it 's just as well because at the interview I talked myself out of the other jobs by being so keen on the post office . ’
15 But they do admit that it 's still more often than not a case of all talk and no action when boys discuss sex in the playground .
16 It 's all over now although the papers are still ferreting around .
17 Since we are c.3000 feet up , it is not oppressively even though the sun is directly over your head at noon .
18 It is not so long till some bushes are there .
19 More riskily , the budget announced in December was based on the assumption that the oil price would average $22 a barrel for the year ; it is not much more than $17 now .
20 This was never the case and in the current working world it is even less so because of developing technology which has its impact on almost all jobs and also on the social context of work .
21 It is even more so when treasures were cast into deep water .
22 This is sometimes due to a generally secretive approach but it is probably more often because of a fear of being made to appear inadequate at the hands of an experienced interviewer .
23 Its only disadvantage is that it is n't as quite as easy as plugging in a coprocessor card .
24 There are other times , too , aside from being a brood mare , when a horse has extra nutritional needs so it is just as well if the horse has learnt to eat and enjoy lucerne and grain .
25 So it is just as well when approaching a strange horse to check that one 's presence is , if not welcome , at least accepted .
26 It is very rarely still because of the strong tidal currents .
27 Even when our conscious feelings are not in a state of conflict , it is difficult to portray them relatively accurately in words , but it is much more so when they are .
28 It is above the eighth magnitude , and is visible with × 7 , though only as a dim blur ; its real distance is 69000 light-years , so that it is much further away than the brighter globular clusters such as M13 Herculis and Omega Centauri .
29 Failing to set the handbrake is sometimes detected when it is too late i.e. when a vehicle has been parked unattended and has then begun to move and run away downhill , perhaps resulting in an accident .
30 I am sure this happens , but I do n't know that it is any more so than for most other serious books , including the Bible and Shakespeare .
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