Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or perhaps it 's this city , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it was that recollection , however poignant , was better than emptiness . |
| 4 | Perhaps he was afraid of the responsibility , or perhaps it was pure selfishness . |
| 5 | ‘ By whether or not it 's good business ? ’ |
| 6 | Whether or not it is good fortune to fall in love with the person you marry , our culture dictates that this is the basis of proper marriage . |
| 7 | A fresh standard supermarket turkey costs a little more than frozen , while the price of a traditional farm fresh bird does vary depending on the producer , breed and whether or not it is free range — but you can pay up to twice as much . |
| 8 | So if you can start writing your list of , you have examples already of other areas that you think could be interesting , useful educational , helpful to a child either as in a group or maybe it 's two children ! |
| 9 | There was nothing so cosily malicious , once it was mutually accepted , as dead love , and besides it was plain Dotty had a thing going with Fairchild . |
| 10 | We we tried to do as much as we could we drove from erm Colorado right the way round California up through Utah and stuff and so it is some parts of the desert are very boring . |
| 11 | And so it were good propaganda this er this , people were saying , Well they 're prepared to go to Russia and fight the Russians to re re you know release our lads , they 're trying to capture . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's amazing what you learn and basically it 's good fun . |
| 13 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
| 14 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 15 | And thus it was that glamour had arrived for our heroine . |
| 16 | He laughed and kissed her again , and somehow it was another hour before the last of the doughnuts and her third cup of tea were consumed and he decreed that the colour had returned to her cheeks and they could leave . |
| 17 | And probably it was cold weather they would have two or three coats er you know . |
| 18 | And now it 's all panic again , and it always will be — until we mend our ways and Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) graciously allows us back into the Store as better , wiser nomes ! ’ |
| 19 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 20 | And then it 's eight hours on the boat . |
| 21 | and then it 's fifteen pence |
| 22 | You 've not talked to me all day and then it 's that sort of thing . |
| 23 | I 've got Kieran back for next week two weeks and then it 's half way through March and first week in April I have n't got him , I 've got three weeks |
| 24 | Yeah , six pound and then it 's ten pound for the conditioner and the |
| 25 | She 's the fifties or sixties generation , and then it was all slimness , tight dresses . |
| 26 | we 'd had the collection and then it was all choruses and then it was oh where were we , he 'd , then he 'd forgotten his glasses , could n't find his glasses , what page were we |
| 27 | And the women went oh eh unlucky that was seven numbers , Shaney said to her it were n't that was six numbers , and they got and that and got the computer print out and all that , and then it was six numbers . |
| 28 | And then it was mammoth time and nothing she could do about it . |
| 29 | And indeed it is high time to think about lunch . |
| 30 | It is well known that Trish 's expertise is accompanied by unwavering dedication and perseverance and undoubtedly it was these qualities that upgraded the nervous novice to a Grand Prix horse within three years . |