Example sentences of "it be one " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | " Must it be one of the children ? |
| 4 | For a moment he thought he smelt a rat ; could it be one of Marjorie 's ‘ little jokes ’ ? |
| 5 | For a moment he thought he smelt a rat ; could it be one of Marjorie 's ‘ little jokes ’ ? |
| 6 | It is misleading to write of Aquitaine as though it were one vast feudal jungle where vassals rebelled against their lords , nephews fought against their uncles , and all done with a passionate ferocity which left little or no room for effective ducal government . |
| 7 | Equalization is not so much between classes as between individuals within a population which is now treated for this purpose as though it were one class . |
| 8 | One and er it were one and three into pictures . |
| 9 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 10 | And , as it were one voice , an agony Of lamentation , like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land , where no one comes , Or hath come , since the making of the world . |
| 11 | It were one |
| 12 | It were one o'clock Monday I went to pick her up . |
| 13 | Yeah , she er we went to the river shore , you know the bridge near o on our part of the road and he were behind the trees and er I was wo wo , it were one of his sons who were with us , you know , Tommy and he was shouting |
| 14 | I thought it were one of them , you know when you go in hospital and you 're off work and that ? |
| 15 | I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not . |
| 16 | I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not . |
| 17 | She were , she 'd got a scooter bit similar to mine and she er were coming home and it were one of women from school actually one of women from school . |
| 18 | Cos it , I think it were one pound thirty nine or one pound forty six , something like that not dear , anyway er to buy two and then you get the third one free . |
| 19 | It were one of the two . |
| 20 | Well he said it were one point six but that says one point three and I really do sh well I want a one point six . |
| 21 | Of Belgium who appreciate it 's one of life 's great joys . |
| 22 | It wo n't work for political reasons — it 's one con-trick too far . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's one con-trick too far . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It 's one of my favourites . |
| 25 | Certainly it 's one small car which I can drive for several hours at a stretch and step out feeling refreshed . |
| 26 | It 's one of my favourites . |
| 27 | It 's one of the advantages of a bar , they ca n't bug them all . |
| 28 | However , we 'll see about that — it 's one thing jumping well in your own gym , but it 's another one altogether doing it in a stadium — in a championship — with thousands of people looking at you . |
| 29 | Since I spend most of my working life wearing clothes I would n't normally be seen dead in , it 's one of my life 's real pleasures . ’ |
| 30 | With me that rings a warning bell , since it 's one of those suspicious New Age buzzwords that always portend a scam or screwball notion such as crystal therapy or out-of-body travel . |