Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of this exercise was considered prohibitive , and the time factor to effect the alterations involved had it been financially acceptable , would have taken a couple of years . |
| 2 | Yeah has it been too obvious ? |
| 3 | Never has it been more important that News At Ten provide a big prime-time audience . |
| 4 | Now , few can afford to discard the eighties equivalent of disposable fashion , the market stall tat from East End sweat shops , but for those with the readies to spend on real flash ( these are the ones who know that LV means Louis Vuitton as well as Luncheon Voucher ) never has it been more important to make a clear and expensive statement about the level of personal well-being and survival . |
| 5 | It is style that is the Navy 's hallmark , and nowhere in its long history has it been more evident than in those laconic naval signals in which the maximum humorous or dramatic impact is made in the minimum number of words . |
| 6 | Or had it been so unimaginable ? |
| 7 | Rarely has it been so clear that freedom is indivisible , and that attacks on one set of civil liberties are likely to be a part of a projected destruction of all such freedoms . |
| 8 | Never has it been so important for museums to prove themselves popular . |
| 9 | Had it been that bad ? |
| 10 | I 've seen I 've seen it been down sub zeros outside and it 's been eighty degrees in our house . |
| 11 | That 's a miserable farmhouse , and the people in it are perilously unhappy or I 'm a monkey 's uncle . |
| 12 | Through counselling I have come to terms with the fact that the world and the people in it are n't perfect , and nor am I. |
| 13 | Those who are doing it are grossly overworked . |
| 14 | This is particularly important because in practice we assume that ‘ accounting ’ for the business and ‘ financing ’ it are distinctly different issues . |
| 15 | But old age itself is not a disease , and many of the conditions associated with it are neither inevitable nor universal . |
| 16 | Melanie Henwood in her chapter on healthcare emphasises that old age itself is not a disease and that many of the conditions associated with it are neither inevitable or universal . |
| 17 | Most of the issues and problems involved in the definition of democracy and in the struggle to achieve it are already clear in the experience of Greek democracy . |
| 18 | So I do n't think the stars on the diagram itself are as I see it are particularly important . |
| 19 | The second consequence of the failure to accord to walking the dominant role in urban transport that its trip share warrants , is that facilities for it are either absent or neglected . |
| 20 | Attempts have been made to distinguish the two forms by close reading of ‘ groups ’ or ‘ sequences ’ within the collection , but such attempts either to arrange the order of the 1609 Quarto into some new scheme , or to read a consistent development within it are equally misguided . |
| 21 | Bake at 325°F ( 160°C ) gas mark 3 until the custard is just set but still trembling in the centre and the tops of the bread projecting from it are deliciously toasty and crusted . |
| 22 | Half a century ago , youths in Wellington bombers flew out to deal death and have it dealt to them in return ; now the American F-111s roar overhead , and , from time to time , a plume of orange flame and a cloud of smoke appear on the horizon to remind us all that dishing it out and taking it are widely differing talents . |
| 23 | The question therefore arises that if the system or the people operating it are not effective , should not the whole organisation be scrapped ? |
| 24 | I believe , in fact , that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers , but merely ladies who can not resist exploring someone else 's house . |
| 25 | The importance of affirmation With regard to football it perhaps does not matter very much — people who like playing it or watching it are not likely to be seriously affected by our negative comments ; they will just think that we are stupid and go on playing and watching as before . |
| 26 | It can develop strongly in almost any weather , but contrary to popular and widespread belief and advice , the conditions that most favour and encourage it are not damp and mugginess , but hot dry days interspersed with clear , cold , dew-laden nights . |
| 27 | Hubble and Just Do It are both fantastic in their own way , but they can not be compared . |
| 28 | Similarly , damage to the ancient Chinese fang ding and the lead solder used to repair it are clearly visible on the radiograph ( fig. 8.8c ) , in which the X-rays pass easily through the restorer 's plaster and false patina . |
| 29 | It is less stringent than the spin selection rule , partly because the mechanisms for getting round it are more effective . |
| 30 | Perhaps certain parts of it are more efficient than they were 10 or 15 years ago , but the sector is shrinking . |