Example sentences of "[noun pl] it be [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because erm even going back to those days it was the bright ones that were pushed forward and the the sort of dog take the hinder most sort of thing you know . |
| 2 | A high turnover of newcomers does not have a serious effect on the community if a substantial group of native families remain rooted in the same spot , but if over the years it is the oldest families that are emigrating then the parish structure will be unstable . |
| 3 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 4 | Second , in many cases it is the poorer countries who will be most affected by the greenhouse effect . |
| 5 | In many societies it is the older males , including the ‘ head of household ’ who allocate labour , control access of young men to women for marriage , and make other major decisions . |
| 6 | But realism itself is just a matter of convention ; for some people it is the defamiliarized codes which seem realistic , whereas for others it is the traditional devices which convey a sense of reality , and no one device is inherently more realistic than another . |