Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you know , do n't you know that it 's true love you 're the one I 'm dreaming of . |
| 2 | Ignoring the tenure could leave Edinburgh open to a costly legal challenge , although it has stressed that it is consulting unions . |
| 3 | Also , it should not be forgotten that it is raw data that is being presented and not refined information . |
| 4 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 5 | They say that it 's good news … there 's going to be some celebrating tonight ! |
| 6 | Of course you might want to take a very purist line and say that it is bad manners to remind others of their bad manners . |
| 7 | We have all had our share of fruitless journeys to find our dream home , set amid magnificent rolling countryside , only to find that it is 200 yards from the noisy A12 , hemmed in by an ugly industrial building , with a pungent smell of pigs wafting across the garden . |
| 8 | We are therefore not surprised to find that it was this part of his work which most nineteenth-century readers chose to ignore , as any Victorian anthology will prove with its selection of passages relating to Nature . |
| 9 | Early in the war a postcard was issued at Crewe Station showing women railway workers holding out their hands to indicate that it was clean work . |
| 10 | I do n't know if it 's that sort of a do really . |
| 11 | I do n't know if it 's old age or not , oh , it 's getting worse . |
| 12 | I do n't know if it 's any help to you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't know if it was false alarm or they got my name confused , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ( Lest it be thought that that example does not count because it is seventeenth-century English , it is worth noting that modern translations retain the and at the beginning of that verse . ) |
| 15 | Daisy nearly said Perdita could start off by weight lifting some of her belongings upstairs , but desisted because it was such heaven to be on speaking terms again . |
| 16 | And that was about every other day she used to bake about ooh I forget whether it was fourteen pound or twenty eight pound of flour she us . |
| 17 | I do n't know whether it 's this weekend |
| 18 | so I do n't know whether it is that tablet , it 's eased off now |
| 19 | How will you know whether it is genuine regression or something you have imagined ? |
| 20 | I do n't know whether it was inspired intuition but he pinched the grating on the day of the Darrowby Gala . |
| 21 | he said he did n't know whether it was Pink Floyd |
| 22 | It was a meadow ready for cutting and suddenly I realized that it was high summer , the sun was hot and that every step brought the fragrance of clover and warm grass rising about me into the crystal freshness of the air . |
| 23 | She greeted Philip with a kiss , which did n't please Eileen — until she realized that it was common practice . |
| 24 | He generated a lot of enthusiasm and was supported each day by his colleagues from the company who agreed that it was great fun and a huge success . |
| 25 | I 'm not telling every woman to take me H R T , I 'm suggesting that it 's preventative medicine . |
| 26 | In the following days , however , the Argentinian Foreign Ministry , anxious not to impair the improved climate of relations with the UK [ for 1990 restoration of diplomatic relations see p. 37245 ] , toned down Menem 's proposal for arbitration , suggesting that it was one option among several . |
| 27 | How can I avoid seeing that it is this kind of government that threatens my grandchildren ? ’ |
| 28 | She wanted to make some sarcastic retort about his being so bossy , but he was already clearing away the plates , not paying the slightest scrap of attention to her , and she realised that it was this lack of attention that really annoyed her . |
| 29 | When you look more closely at this apparently innocent use of words , it is easy to see that it is all part of a very carefully engineered process . |
| 30 | Abolitionists successfully used the convention drastically to reduce the freedom of parliamentary action and to claim that it was more representative of national opinion than the legislature . |