Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [subord] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And would n't it be ironic if John Smith , after much agonising about Labour 's soul and purpose , bit the bullet , and , abandoning what many say was the reason for failure last time , promised not to put up taxes — and nobody believed him . |
| 2 | If this is anywhere near the true figure , would n't it be nice if Mr Dobson made a substantial donation to help fund treatment for the three-year-old handicapped boy , say £2,500 , plus another £2,500 for the echocardiograph appeal ? |
| 3 | ‘ Would n't it be lovely if Terry was one of them ? ’ a colleague said , but Sarah said quietly that she had received a letter from him and knew when he would arrive . |
| 4 | Anyway there 's a advertisement in there for Grays at Bentley and , it were funny because Jack and Sherry who we were talking to yesterday , they said that shop in Bentley did n't they ? |
| 5 | It 's awful cos Minnie keeps taking throwing her wrappers out , her food . |
| 6 | I think it 's understandable if Trevor was put out by this favoured treatment Sinatra got . |
| 7 | If SVR4 is adopted , it 's unclear whether SCO would start with its existing V.3.2.4 implementation and add SVR4.2 features , or start with SVR4.2 and add backwards compatibility with its SCO Unix and Xenix offerings . |
| 8 | It 's debatable whether PGA is the best golf game , but it 's certainly the easiest to get into without the fuss of reading pages of instructions and swatting up on the physics of the humble golf ball . |
| 9 | It 's funny because Dinda does the same thing . |
| 10 | It 's alright cos Ann 's |
| 11 | It 's alright cos Jenny , Jenny 'll be back . |
| 12 | It is good because Léon Bonn at , a loyal son of Bayonne , first collected these pictures and then left them to the town , which responded by building a small palace in which to show them . |
| 13 | That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed . |
| 14 | The same attitude is recognizable in the fragments of the histories of Posidonius , the pupil of Panaetius who , amidst all his philosophical work , decided to become the continuator of Polybius for the period after 146 B.C. It is uncertain whether Posidonius concluded his histories with the events of Sulla 's dictatorship or whether he extended them to include the Eastern wars of Pompey . |
| 15 | It is uncertain whether HPV DNA acts as a causal agent or a causal passenger in colorectal carcinogenesis . |
| 16 | It is unclear whether Derbyshire Education Committee actively endorsed Outram 's sex education lessons . |
| 17 | It is unclear whether FRISC Inc sold anything or even attempted to , or whether Micron will try to peddle the technology to someone else . |
| 18 | It is unclear whether Microsoft intends to support PC-NFS on one or other or both client and server versions of NT . |
| 19 | It is unclear whether Mr Balladur 's five-year plan to knock the government 's finances into shape , reducing the budget deficit to 2.5% of GDP , can produce results that quickly . |
| 20 | The actual terms of the membership have not been revealed , so it is unclear whether Novell will purchase two memberships or keep USL 's membership with a re-negotiated fee . |
| 21 | It is true because Wirral , as a suburban borough with an interesting and extensive coastline , an impressive green belt , some extremely affluent townships , a large number of owner-occupiers and a thriving private schools sector , does have the look and feel of a very well-heeled community . |
| 22 | ‘ It is important if Leeds City is to be made attractive to good footballers that the club should have the reputation of conferring good benefits , ’ he told the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 23 | Speculating about their answers is pointless yet it is inevitable when Mr Garel-Jones 's resignation letter crosses the boundary of credulity . |
| 24 | Last year , a couple of their events were not fully covered by sponsorship income and it is doubtful whether Mark McCormack will want to add to the £2million or so he has already poured in . |
| 25 | Yet it is doubtful whether Baldwin was in fact wasting time . |
| 26 | It is doubtful whether Asquith fully assimilated the shift of allegiance which this letter quietly announced . |
| 27 | ‘ Bold , not to negotiate with the nationalists ; as the outrage was felt exclusively by the Dutch it is doubtful whether Mountbatten would have resented the description . |
| 28 | Yet it is doubtful whether M Mitterrand can repeat his success of the 1970s and weld the fractions of the Left — what Mme Cresson called ‘ progressive forces ’ — into a whole . |
| 29 | The ideology is talked about less ( though Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley has his hour of glory at the Conservative Party conference ) , but on the evidence so far it is doubtful whether Major 's much-vaunted caring image will ever filter through to meaningful policy change . |
| 30 | It is doubtful whether Kierkegaard himself held this view , certainly by the time of his last and great work Concluding Unscientific Postscript , where he insisted that ‘ faith must not rest content with unintelligibility ’ . |