Example sentences of "[adj] it be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With predicted export sales of more than £21 million in 1993 it is 15 years of exceptional growth and an export success of which we can all be proud . |
| 2 | For 347 ( 87% ) this matching was done 3 years after surgery and for the remaining 53 it was 2 years after surgery . |
| 3 | Does the case suggest that the worse the plight of the promisor ( for example , the bigger the penalty clause ) the greater the benefit to him and the more likely it is that performance of the contract will be held to be consideration ? |
| 4 | But more likely it was some time in London . |
| 5 | And when it 's cold it 's bloody cold in there . |
| 6 | One British observer has pointed out how curious it is that assessment of performance procedures has been developed ( by the APU ) without any reference to procedures for the improvement of performance . |
| 7 | FEBRUARY 1992 It is three weeks after Ali 's fiftieth birthday . |
| 8 | As far as Diana was concerned it was another set of ‘ velvet hairbands ’ . |
| 9 | But if time is not too desperately important it is one way of seeing a vast stretch of surprising and magnificent country , some interesting and unspoiled old towns , perhaps even of discovering some village in the heart of the still primitive agricultural Auvergne , some little-known hotel where one would like to stay instead of hurrying on , to which one would return another year . |
| 10 | But coming up first it 's open surgery with Dr Kathleen Long . |
| 11 | By the 1930s , when the problems of dialogue recording made it easier to bring the world into the studio rather than taking the camera to the world ( whereas in the pre-sound 1920s it was fine control of lighting that favoured studio shooting ) , moving images — then and now called ‘ plates ’ — could be projected behind the action and foreground props or sets , provided the camera and projector were ( as in the step-printer already discussed ) exactly synchronized . |
| 12 | This results primarily from the greater longevity of women compared with men ; life expectancy at birth is 78 years for women and 72 years for men , while at 65 it is 17 years for women and 16 years for men . |
| 13 | It 's two it 's twelve quid for six . |
| 14 | In fact the breed is so rare it 's attracting attention from criminal quarters too . |
| 15 | Being so close it 's much beloved of families on a day 's outing , but is still an alpine hut for all that . |
| 16 | The next it is two sisters in Rhode Island who run a summer camp for mentally retarded children . |