Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — far lower than in Germany , where it is 26 per cent. , the United States where it is 33 per cent. , and Japan where it is more than 60 per cent . |
| 2 | Compared with most other shingle features in the British Isles the beach is a simple though large ridge , reaching its maximum size at the Portland end , where it is 60 m ( 200 yd ) wide and just over 12 m ( 40 ft ) high . |
| 3 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 4 | Now Channel 4 has gone and the sport is back where it was six years ago . |
| 5 | Another marked feature of the service industries is the large amount of female labour they employ : among the highest levels were professional and scientific services where it was 70 per cent by 1970 and in both catering and retailing just over 60 per cent . |
| 6 | Medical practice booklets four years ago or it 's five years now I guess , five years ago erm er it 's almost five , legislation was brought in by the then Health Secretary Ken Clarke now our dear Chancellor . |
| 7 | Because you 'd you could n't hold that much in your head so you have to try and break them down into little patterns of Oh it 's one of that lot or it 's one of this lot . |
| 8 | And , or it 's one of the two lifts they had and they 've made it er toylands . |
| 9 | because it 's either one more or it 's one less . |
| 10 | yes or it 's zero based budgeting . |
| 11 | , so the complex number that is the square root , is either two in that pair , minus five , plus three , nine , or it is five minus three , nine , so it 's either that one , or it 's that one , and we can write that down very , very simply because that one and that one are just the opposite sides , but either plus or minus . |
| 12 | TYPE , TOM The Media Type specified is greater than the maximum allowed or it is zero . |
| 13 | MDT The Media Type specified is greater than the maximum allowed or it is zero . |
| 14 | Except it is four in the afternoon . |
| 15 | He never really understood what happened next except it was one of those chances , the movement of fortune 's wheel , or the sudden intervention of God 's saving grace . |
| 16 | Although it is one of the most widely-known volcanic rocks , obsidian lava flows are rare . |
| 17 | The National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association is by no means the only ‘ moral entrepreneurial ’ group of this sort , although it is one of the most long-standing , and it has , through Mary Whitehouse , generally achieved a higher profile than many of the others . |
| 18 | Wasdale Head boasts the highest mountain , the deepest lake and the smallest ( although it is one of several claimants ) church in England . |
| 19 | Although it is 40 years since I was called-up , the memories of that part of my life are still vivid and I still have my flying logbook to refresh my memory . |
| 20 | Although it is 40 years since the incident , I urge my right hon. Friend to give urgent consideration to the case because the suffering of Derek Bentley 's family continues day in and day out . |
| 21 | It looks fairly ordinary , although it 's one of the ‘ big head ’ designs and it seems to be made of some sort of high-tech composite of plastic and metal . |
| 22 | So , although it 's one of the most standard reproaches against philosophy , that it 's inconclusive , I think this probably springs from a misconception of what human beings are , and what the possibilities of human intellectual self-consciousness can really be . |
| 23 | Although it 's two years later they 've got to resell at the price that er it 's been discounted more or less . |
| 24 | But although it 's two one to Notts , the scoring is a long way from over and Pisa , two one down , are a long way from being finished with . |
| 25 | Six of our residents took part in a driving exercise and we demonstrated that clearly and this is for your benefit we 'll give it to you , although it 's three miles longer to the point where the A sixty one joins the A one , even with the present state of the A one , it is ten minutes quicker to go via the A six five eight , A fifty nine , A one route . |
| 26 | erm he , although it 's twenty one , fifteen do really damn all . |
| 27 | When she went downstairs to make herself some toast it was still very dark , although it was eight o'clock and she could hear the children talking in their room . |
| 28 | So that you can in the end , when I came to do it , although it was seventeen people I did n't find it too difficult . |
| 29 | There was a bed in one corner still unmade , although it was five o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 30 | Two sizeable works had gone in under two hours , although it was forty-eight hours before new outbreaks ceased . |