Example sentences of "it [be] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind it were several sets of screens at different angles , behind which the stripogrammers or Boozebusters got changed . |
| 2 | And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out . |
| 3 | We 've said that when it 's a baby inside its mum , does n't have to control its own temperature , and in actual fact it 's several days after birth , after the baby 's born that it can effectively produce its own heat and its metabolism functions efficiently . |
| 4 | It is several hours and nearly dark before anyone comes to find me . |
| 5 | It is several critics ' testimony that John 's awakening re-awakens the reader to John 's sleeping presence ( or , rather , immanence ) . |
| 6 | It was several preceptors phasing out together , Posi later explained , that threw directional control and some other functions out of kilter . |
| 7 | It was several minutes before he had found the courage to ask her how she had got to the beach . |
| 8 | The house seemed to be an absolute maze of rooms , though , and it was several minutes before she finally opened a door that led into a surprisingly well-equipped kitchen . |
| 9 | And it was several minutes before her quick ears picked up , from somewhere well ahead of her , the snap of a broken branch under a trampling foot . |
| 10 | It was several minutes into the meal before Rune broke the silence between them . |
| 11 | Her lifeless fingers refused to obey the simplest of commands , and it was several minutes before she felt the spray , as hot as she could bear , pounding her stiffened body back into life , tingling the nerve-ends until she felt almost human again . |
| 12 | It was several minutes before she decided that he really was n't there . |
| 13 | It was several minutes before Harris reappeared . |
| 14 | And when at last he got a ringing tone , it was several minutes before it was answered . |
| 15 | It was several minutes before Tommy , wearing the dead German 's pickelhaube , appeared at the top of the stone steps . |
| 16 | His monistic philosophy promoted a sense of the unity of Nature among later generations of environmentalists , but it was several decades before serious work on what would now be called ecological topics began . |
| 17 | Begun in the 1250s , it was several times remodelled and in the 1470s King Matthias added a fine tower which still stands and for which the Church has been named since . |
| 18 | It was several pages long and marked ‘ Top Secret for Addressee Only ’ . |
| 19 | It was several storeys high , with many small windows , some of which were barred . |
| 20 | His agitation seemed an aspect of my fading dream , and it was several moments before I could take in what he was saying . |
| 21 | It was several moments before she realized she was running ankle-deep in water . |
| 22 | It was several moments before she regained her self-control . |
| 23 | It was several moments before he spoke . |
| 24 | It was several moments before he replaced the little oil in the box along with Tommy 's other possessions . |
| 25 | It was several points short of a pencil . |
| 26 | I was so immersed in my thoughts that it was several seconds before I realised that the sound dinning in my ears was the telephone ringing . |
| 27 | It was several seconds before they recovered their breath . |
| 28 | It was several seconds before Lindsey recognised the dark-haired girl grinning at her . |
| 29 | It was several seconds before it dawned on her that his last words had been spoken in Italian . |
| 30 | Foul weather with squally winds put paid to an immediate start on the building so it was several months before the engine strip-down could begin under the new roof . |