Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " That 's just possible as an explanation , " said his wife , " if it were n't for one thing . " |
| 2 | If it were n't for this job creation scheme I 'd be on the rubbish tip |
| 3 | ‘ concluded that the submissions raised in it were not of sufficient substance to justify referring the same to the judiciary or altering the first review date . |
| 4 | ‘ Just to demonstrate — if it were ever in any doubt — the total unsuitability of our present situation . |
| 5 | I think he were going for a , a month , a month and a half summat like that , and he said it were out of this world . |
| 6 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |
| 7 | It 's probably about one size |
| 8 | I would suggest that it 's probably in that region , yes . |
| 9 | The aim would be to help people ‘ who never find love , it 's not about casual sex . ’ |
| 10 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
| 11 | " Well , it 's not for any outsider to say , " remarked Alice . |
| 12 | ‘ No , Clive , ’ she screeched at him , ‘ it 's not for last time . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , it 's not for this boy . |
| 14 | That was , the music was made for his , that time , you know what I mean , it 's not for this time . |
| 15 | It 's not it 's not on that level . |
| 16 | No it 's not on this tape , it 's on the other tape . |
| 17 | It 's not on this list . |
| 18 | It 's not in industrial use if one takes the definition that it 's railway land . |
| 19 | Well now , and it 's not in serious music , it 's in erm in popular music , in pop . |
| 20 | So it 's not in that lot so page down to the next one . |
| 21 | It 's not in any way in competition with ni with er apostle 's creed or anything else , it 's a quite different er er er er animal . |
| 22 | Well it 's not in any dictionary that we can find |
| 23 | As Victoria Wood said , if it 's in bad taste it 's not funny but if it 's funny it 's not in bad taste . ’ |
| 24 | The good has to be imposed from outside , it 's not , it 's not in human nature . |
| 25 | The sensitivity of the panel allows the torch to be recharged , even when it 's not in direct sunlight . |
| 26 | so er that 's old is it Shepherd and Metzler No it 's not in this case but I think they invented the task , yes they did good old Shepherd and Metzler |
| 27 | It 's not in , it 's not in this scope . |
| 28 | ‘ Rob knows where the first-aid box is , ’ Luke retorted , ‘ and it 's not in this office ! |
| 29 | It 's , it 's not in this week then , that one ? |
| 30 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |