Example sentences of "[conj] it be [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it is clear a person has some deficits in functioning then an advocate should be appointed , a relative , friend , solicitor , or occasionally the social worker . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) Fourth , although it is unusual the purchaser may have agreed to take over some liabilities such as payments under leasing arrangements or after sales repairs . |
| 3 | The flat string of squares flickered slightly just sufficiently to show it was a projection , nothing real ; but although it was apparent the line of squares itself was merely an image , on its surface sat seemingly real and solid wooden chess pieces made from black and white wood , and set on that strange line like tiny isolated guard towers on a chequered frontier wall . |
| 4 | And , ’ he insisted threateningly , when it seemed she might find her voice to make some vigorous protest , ‘ if you value your job , which I 'm sure you do , you wo n't breathe a word to him that it 's all a put-up affair . ’ |
| 5 | It crossed her mind that perhaps she should , despite her employer 's ‘ … if you value your job , you wo n't breathe a word to him that it 's all a put-up affair ’ , explain some of it to Travis . |
| 6 | You seem to think that it 's all a game , a make believe . |
| 7 | A reference to its dictionary would help it realise that it is unlikely a word would begin with the character ‘ 5″ , but , in all probability should read ‘ Singing ’ . |
| 8 | The Commercial Director of British Coal has admitted that it is likely the industry will be a fifth of its present size by the mid-nineteen-nineties . |
| 9 | I kept telling myself that it was all a mistake , some kind of ghastly mistake . |
| 10 | Basically , he avoids discussion of his amazing wartime adventures , preferring to indicate that it was all a mistake . |
| 11 | How could he tell her that it was all a mistake ? |
| 12 | You 'll explain that it was all a mistake . ’ |
| 13 | Just before the verdict was announced he told Central South that he never attempted to gas his wife — and that it was all a plot by her to ruin his life . |
| 14 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 15 | The more I think about it , the more I veer to the conclusion that it was all a fantasy . |
| 16 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 17 | She says that it was all a question of remembering rules and methods . |
| 18 | And there was a suspicion in Britain that it was all a bit of a plot to er to kind of isolate Turkey . |
| 19 | I had my hair cut very very short and I just all of a sudden realised that it was all a bit serious ; that something else was about to happen . |
| 20 | He fell to thinking of the shape in the well-pit , and then dropped into a drowsy half-dream , in which El-ahrairah said that it was all a trick of his to disguise himself as Poison-tree and put the stones in the wall , to engage Strawberry 's attention while he himself was getting acquainted with Nildro-hain . |
| 21 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 22 | In vain did he protest to the shopkeeper that it was all a joke . |
| 23 | The whole jape took on a rather serious complexion when the police refused to accept that it was all a joke . |
| 24 | That first day or two , I kept on thinking he would telephone , that it was all a sort of whim . |
| 25 | Rank , however , argued with equal conviction that it was all the government 's fault . |
| 26 | Alarmed by this sign of the strength of popular monarchist feeling , Franco 's political adviser , Carrero Blanco , assured the Caudillo that it was all the work of Freemasons — an explanation Franco readily accepted . |
| 27 | He could n't understand how his world had collapsed and although he said to himself , several times a day , that it was all the fault of the theatre , that sick , all-pervading fever that seemed to turn everyone foolish and mad , in his heart he knew it was more than that . |
| 28 | The auditors seemed to be implying that it was all the Bank 's fault . |
| 29 | When Rebecca Kraemer remarked , as the last murmurs of the slow movement died away , that it was such a pity the conductor was still following the now-discredited Haas edition , she was telling everyone within earshot — which included half the audience — everything that Alison could have wanted them to know but naturally would n't have dreamt of mentioning herself . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've always thought you were so pretty , and that it was such a shame to hide that behind those thick glasses , and that studious pallor . |