Example sentences of "it [be] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christ , how long has it been since I … ? |
| 2 | How long has it been since I got a present from a girl ? |
| 3 | How long had it been since she had let anyone come this close , comfort her , try to ease her fears ? |
| 4 | How long 's it been since I 've been there ? |
| 5 | How long 's it been since you went to Sainsbury 's ? |
| 6 | Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway . |
| 7 | But given the discrimination shown against climbers in the present price structure , how long might it be before you climb at High Rocks by season ticket , or prior arrangement and private fee only ? |
| 8 | How long would it be before her father came up ? |
| 9 | It you were filling the bath with both taps on and the plug out , how many minutes would it be before the bath overflowed ? |
| 10 | In France , a government minister is working on plans to make sexual harassment a criminal offence , so how long can it be before Britain begins a similar move ? |
| 11 | It does n't though , and the photocopiers are good enough to pass official muster , how long can it be before we have the sort of crisis of confidence in our physical currency not seen since the days of the coin-clipping Tudors ? |
| 12 | ‘ How long will it be before they give me the all-clear , do you think ? ’ |
| 13 | How long will it be before they pair off — if in fact I have a pair ? |
| 14 | If they are both off work today , how long will it be before they are both off again ? |
| 15 | A thing that worried me all through the deliberations … was this : supposing we made all the right recommendations and supposing the Government gave effect to them in legislation , how long would it be before the judges turned everything upside down ? |
| 16 | Joseph would be going back to the United States soon and would be beyond her gossip , but if Maurin convinced her of Joseph 's innocence , then how long would it be before she realized that he , too , had a strong financial motive for wanting the truth about the Durances kept secret ? |
| 17 | How much further would it be before she reached the main road ? |
| 18 | How long will it be before the Student Loans Company will be able to administer mandatory grants as well as cut out the middle man ? |
| 19 | With the shortage of food throughout the sections ; how long would it be before the TOP 's stopped the supply ? |
| 20 | Unless such a study is organised then how long will it be before hospitals begin to pressurise surgeons to be regularly tested ? |
| 21 | How long will it be before we find Cockayne |
| 22 | How long will it be before our Labour Councillors are spending a quarter of a million on trips abroad , as in ? |
| 23 | He 's off sick today , from today , how long will it be before he gets his first cheque from us . |
| 24 | How soon will it be before you 'll know what is going to be the first production ? |
| 25 | If we all want it put a stop to , will the government do something about it , or will it be like you said , Mr. Gerrard ? |
| 26 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 27 | ‘ What else can it be when you 're covered from head to toe in foul little pustules ? ’ |
| 28 | What will it be When that the wat'ry palates taste indeed Love 's thrice-repured nectar ? |
| 29 | Your gelled and moussed-up creation might look stunning on the day , but how will it be when you wake up next morning . |
| 30 | It would be mischievous to suggest that the opponents no longer see safety as a problem , but it does seem to have receded from the foreground , despite the fact that — or could it be because ? — there was a serious nuclear accident in the US , in a PWR very different from that designed for Sizewell . |