Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | Except it is four in the afternoon . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although it is one of the most widely-known volcanic rocks , obsidian lava flows are rare . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Wasdale Head boasts the highest mountain , the deepest lake and the smallest ( although it is one of several claimants ) church in England . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Although it 's two years later they 've got to resell at the price that er it 's been discounted more or less . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | erm he , although it 's twenty one , fifteen do really damn all . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There was a bed in one corner still unmade , although it was five o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 22 | Two sizeable works had gone in under two hours , although it was forty-eight hours before new outbreaks ceased . |
| 23 | Although it was one of the train 's first stops and there were never many passengers on board , the people waiting at Raxaul always crammed around the doors , clambering up and forcing themselves in . |
| 24 | Unwilling to be a wallflower at the workstation ball , Intergraph Corp muscled in with an announcement that it will implement Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system for its Intergraph Clipper RISC microprocessor — despite the fact that although it was one of the very first to declare a commitment , it has still not made good on its promise that it will put OSF/1 on the Clipper . |
| 25 | The red room was a cold , silent room , hardly ever used , although it was one of the largest bedrooms in the house . |
| 26 | Although it was 12 years ago , both vividly remember the day they learned about their parents ' seperation . |
| 27 | It should be emphasised that this is an extreme version of the sentence-grammarian 's view and one which is found less frequently , in contemporary linguistics , than it was fifteen years ago . |
| 28 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |
| 29 | This aspect of a head 's management is better understood now than it was thirty years ago . |
| 30 | Sharing is even more out of step with materialistic white Australia today than it was 200 years ago . |