Example sentences of "[prep] it be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 cos a lot of it 's bloody play by ear you know the contract 's
2 Well I mean I do n't wan na put in er a great deal of money because most of it 's ploughed back into the business .
3 All this is on top of it 's infamous repression of half the country 's population — the women .
4 What 's left of it is many yards under water now .
5 There is more to say about this problem , but the essence of it is this question of fact .
6 Well it 's bound to me , he must get fed up , but eh , he do n't really want a job like , full time , he wants to be able to he gets fed up of it being full time after a while .
7 And there was a , a book , I always regret not pho photostatting it , where one of the people who write on health er made the point that you start with the full page in the book , and the outer band of it were all pictures of the world , and then it was erm a particular sort of location in a town , and then it was a house and garden and then it was a room in a house .
8 Part of it was simple force of personality , buttressed by a Marine uniform ; part of it was expectation , a slow series of teasing appearances and an avalanche of peculiar facts , built up over many months .
9 We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to !
10 Now you 're preaching the sacrament of the foaming fibreglass , and digging your rail into the face like it was some kind of religion .
11 Blanche had drawn the hedgehog-child in a Victorian high chair at a Victorian table ; behind it were dark panes of cupboard glass , before it a huge intruding hand , pointing to its dish .
12 Behind it were several sets of screens at different angles , behind which the stripogrammers or Boozebusters got changed .
13 Come dusk the place starts to come alive and the narrow streets behind the harbour , with it 's vast array of magnificent wood-built sailing cruisers , turn into a huge open air jamboree with everybody jostling , shopping , eating , drinking and generally having a good time .
14 That move , with it 's inherant risk of charge-capping , has immediately been branded as irresponsible .
15 ‘ It will be the end of an era with it being four generations of the family , ’ said Mr Cooper , ‘ but we are ready to enjoy our retirement now . ’
16 But as far as freebies are concerned , as you know our cage driller machine , that 's now into it 's third year of development , I have an assurance from the college that we could be we could use it on the day .
17 The process which has just been described is clearly a very complex affair , but most of the decisions involved in it are programmable types of decisions .
18 Erm , if we are asking Mr to look at the long-term viability and the ways of preserving that , those options may be other than option one which was what you moved , and I think it 's rather premature to actually go down a road that says we preserve it in it 's present form with some disposals , when , we are asking for a report for it 's future viability , which may mean complete disposal , or may not , and I think , that , that 's why I 've seconded Mr 's amendment , because it 's right we should wait for that that report to come to property , know the full facts , and then we can make a decision as to which option we want for the County Farms estate .
19 Now that would be an ea that 's er telemarketing in it 's in it 's pure sense in that you 're offering something free are you interested
20 I want you to bring it in it 's completed state to next week 's lesson please ?
21 It 's an aircraft which has been rarely out of the headlines in it 's 25 years with the RAF .
22 In it were all kinds of animals and birds .
23 Mixed in it were 30 kg of TCDD .
24 In it were elaborate displays of every kind of knife : from vegetable knives for the kitchen , to horn-handled hunting knives .
25 Beyond it was another raft with , even as he watched , a dark shape rearing up out of the sea alongside .
26 We had some very , very moving speeches yesterday , as we had had at previous meetings , which made it quite clear that a few pounds were vital and crucial to people 's lives , so we thought it was a a gesture that was worth making , and I have to say that probably our group also includes people on , as members , as Councillors , who are themselves on income support , so it was a move which was n't without it 's personal difficulties for us either .
27 She 's going through a stage talk about cakey , cakey goes to it 's all sort of pathetic , oh yes hello Joseph , and erm she says pardon , pardon , she said daddy .
28 I think deep down it 's some kind of fear , a fear of comparisons .
29 This policy of ‘ cost optimisation ’ will be continued into the current year , he said , and should be helped by the relocation of Siemens Nixdorf 's parent company , Siemens AG , into UK headquarters in Bracknell — Siemens ' lease on it 's former site in Sunbury has now run out .
30 They 've got a double decker they use for the school run and that is absolutely on it 's last legs by the look of it !
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