Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway it bring 's back the age old question , should we play Batty when he comes back or should we leave well enough alone ? |
| 2 | Love has inspired more mystical utterances than any other human emotions ; for some saints and mystics , it has been almost the whole of religion . |
| 3 | One recent advertisment carried a photograph of a rather seedy individual in a large hat and dirty raincoat which it stressed was precisely the type of applicant not required . |
| 4 | If it had been only the Empress and a Court clique who desired war , things might have turned out differently , but given the wave of bellicosity which swept the entire nation , it would have required a miracle to produce a peaceful end to the crisis . |
| 5 | ‘ For me it 's been exactly the opposite ; I 've never been healthier — and I 'm much more religious than when I started doing this . |
| 6 | ‘ For us it 's been quite the reverse of a recession . |
| 7 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 8 | Thus , underlying the other side of Gramsci 's picture — the continuous construction of class alliances , with its articulative dimension in the cultural domain — there is a basic dichotomy , organized around the relationship of ‘ hegemonic ’ and subordinate blocs , ‘ power bloc versus popular classes ’ ( Hall 1981 : 238–9 ) , the content of each and the terrain it controls being precisely the object of cultural as well as economic struggle . |