Example sentences of "it be [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the three pairs of tests ( N = 269 ) , 46 pupils would have passed on one of the two occasions had the pass mark been 50 per cent and 54 had it been 70 per cent . |
| 2 | Yeah , outside , it 's like my pram , I mean , I was , Stacey was going in hospital last year to have her adeno adenoids out and Sue was having him and I thought well , he was too big for his carrycot , but take the pram down and he 's got nothing to sleep in and er , I put him in it , it been six months since it was do well since he started using it , so I give that a good going over and the pram wheels come up lovely |
| 3 | This would fit the many reports that had the young mother dying in childbirth , for had it been one of the aforementioned ladies Wild Will might well have been rather proud of himself . |
| 4 | That tension is still with us , but overlaid on it are two others . |
| 5 | Knowing what you 'd like to say and actually having the courage to come right out with it are two different things . |
| 6 | Wedged so tight against the bottom of the last page that I can hardly read it are four handwritten words that make my heart leap : ‘ Yours sincerely , Elizabeth Serafin' . |
| 7 | There is an entrance hall of perfect proportions , which is twice as long as it is square , and leading off it are three reception rooms of great height and elegance . |
| 8 | Above it are three products fulfilling the role of distributed system management ; the OmniSQL Gateway , detailed last month , is designed to provide interoperability between a number of non-Sybase and non-relational systems , and the Replication and Navigation Servers . |
| 9 | Above it are three products fulfilling the role of distributed system management ; the OmniSQL Gateway , detailed last month , is designed to provide interoperability between a number of non-Sybase and non-relational systems , and the Replication and Navigation Servers . |
| 10 | Why should it be zero or below before they receive the small amount of assistance of £6 a week ? |
| 11 | Pausanias does not consider the authorship of the metopes , but the difference of approach we noticed between the two groups corresponds so exactly to the difference between the gables that we can safely postulate one designer for the sculptures at each end of the building ; but can it be one man who designed both ? |
| 12 | " Must it be one of the children ? |
| 13 | For a moment he thought he smelt a rat ; could it be one of Marjorie 's ‘ little jokes ’ ? |
| 14 | For a moment he thought he smelt a rat ; could it be one of Marjorie 's ‘ little jokes ’ ? |
| 15 | Will it be twenty-three nine point eight seven . |
| 16 | So would it be ten divided by three hundred and sixty ? |
| 17 | How can it be three storey up ? |
| 18 | Will it be 40 million , 50 million or 60 million tonnes ? |
| 19 | Two men will have two weeks off and it were twelve in the shop . |
| 20 | It were twelve o'clock when you went today , when you dropped me off at work . |
| 21 | and it were , it were nine ninety nine |
| 22 | And it were nine ninety nine . |
| 23 | It were thirty pence when it were , when it was er this fella owned it |
| 24 | But you know on his log book , last person that had the car he went down to see them , and they told him that it were thirty thousand over from when they sold it . |
| 25 | ‘ It were 1938 , I think — yes , o'course it was , because McCabe hit 232 at Nottingham — and I was getting sedooced away by this gel . |
| 26 | Well it were seventy one . |
| 27 | And at the same time the income divide between the top twenty percent of men and the bottom twenty percent is now greater than it were hundred years ago . |
| 28 | and erm it were a long play and it were hundred and twenty nine pound video . |
| 29 | It were hundred and twen cos that to , to tell you the truth I was seriously thinking because ours we 've |
| 30 | I said , it were hundred and odd together . |