Example sentences of "it be [adv] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , ’ she enquired haughtily , putting down her coffee-mug with a flourish , ‘ would it be too much trouble to ask for the number of the nearest garage ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's probably that face pack you put on , ’ Alexandra said . |
| 3 | It 's much more economical than separate cards and with a good sharp punch it 's not much effort to punch the extra rows at each end ! |
| 4 | if it 's here it 's not much point leaving it for once a year . |
| 5 | No it 's not this holiday gives you the choice of either hotels or self catering , situated in the beautiful coast coastal town of Travana , summer in cha , chateau six days , one bed and breakfast , four half board |
| 6 | ‘ If theatre has any magic it 's when that curtain comes down and there is that lovely separation , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Oh , and one other thing , I 'm fed up with people saying , ‘ It 's just that London Talkin Loud vibe . ’ |
| 8 | It 's just that other have had so much more to say about the work . |
| 9 | Well it 's just that dad said he passed a great big piece of wood , I said that must have been painful ! |
| 10 | Remember it 's just that salt has become the MSG of the occidental table ! |
| 11 | We would only need to witness a marked increase in trade and there will certainly be an increase in demand why do you think trade has increased ? and trade is n't a necessary condition it 's just that trade has tended to grow at the same time as erm as demand is growing . |
| 12 | it 's just another book to lose where , I mean |
| 13 | Ah right oh no I 'm panicking at the fuss It 's just some joker walking round setting them all off ! |
| 14 | And it 's where that lot meet . |
| 15 | It 's where most people throw it away on the sketches , they just pick a tiny , tiny portion and look at that in great detail , say ah , look at that , wonderful . |
| 16 | It 's far less trouble to give way . |
| 17 | It 's always such fun to see the faces behind the brand names — I bet you never thought the faces behind your face looked like this ! |
| 18 | If there was any time when radical land reform would have succeeded , it was during nineteen forty eight to nineteen forty nine , and it 's precisely that time looking into an area which would seem to be the most favourable for radical land reform , they have not taken that opportunity . |
| 19 | And it 's quite another thing to foresee what 's going to happen , and then deliberately to prevent its happening . |
| 20 | It 's quite another thing to share a summit with 60 people who express disappointment that there is no hot-dog stand . |
| 21 | Except the brain is screaming for more dopamine , so you overdose because you ca n't accept that the drug is n't working any longer , and it 's then that cocaine starts doing its other things to you . |
| 22 | Be that concentrating , it 's too much effort to concentrate , yeah |
| 23 | I 'd like us to ask another question this week , it 's slightly different , perhaps a strange on the surface and it 's how much faith does God have in you ? |
| 24 | It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away . |
| 25 | R is difficult when you are at work all week , to find the time and it is not much fun spending your only free time cleaning . |
| 26 | It is not any sense over-engineered in the manner of some US made exotica that has crossed my path , but over-engineering is not necessarily good engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering , which is a quite different thing . |
| 27 | It is not enough compensation to read on your contemporary one that Her Majesty 's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs requests and requires . |
| 28 | It is when that figure falls below one-quarter that people begin to use the term ‘ modular ’ , ‘ unit-credit ’ , or its colloquial equivalents such as building-block , cafeteria , pick n'mix ( or worse ) . |
| 29 | Indeed it is when these statements strive to go beyond themselves to grasp the complexities of the phenomena to which they refer that they are most likely to resort to rhetorical devices . |
| 30 | It is here that hope has a place . |