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 | Oh , and one other thing , I 'm fed up with people saying , ‘ It 's just that London Talkin Loud vibe . ’ |
| 4 | It 's just that other have had so much more to say about the work . |
| 5 | Well it 's just that dad said he passed a great big piece of wood , I said that must have been painful ! |
| 6 | Remember it 's just that salt has become the MSG of the occidental table ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | it 's just another book to lose where , I mean |
| 9 | Ah right oh no I 'm panicking at the fuss It 's just some joker walking round setting them all off ! |
| 10 | It 's far less trouble to give way . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And it 's quite another thing to foresee what 's going to happen , and then deliberately to prevent its happening . |
| 14 | It 's quite another thing to share a summit with 60 people who express disappointment that there is no hot-dog stand . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Be that concentrating , it 's too much effort to concentrate , yeah |
| 17 | It is here that hope has a place . |
| 18 | It is here that psychoanalysis has had its most popular appeal , seeming to explain why some obsessionals continually need to wash their hands , or why some children are desperately afraid of horses or dogs , or why some people are afraid to go out of the house . |
| 19 | It is here that Aspect has taken a crucial step with his latest experiment . |
| 20 | It is here that condensation forms unless the space is ventilated — which it hardly ever is . |
| 21 | But in Guatemala it is just another body thrown on the pavement … ’ |
| 22 | When will the Secretary of State accept responsibility for the crisis in education provision in Cambridgeshire , or does he believe that it is just another scare got up by pupils , parents , teachers and Conservative county councillors in that county ? |
| 23 | It is one thing to speak of involving the student , " teaching concepts rather than facts " , " practising skills " and all the other catch phrases of educational discourse ; it is quite another thing to put them into practice , to find out how to involve the student , to elucidate which concepts are of most importance and which facts are necessary to their understanding , and particularly to distinguish which are the key skills and how they are to be most usefully practised with these students in this situation . |
| 24 | Another argument I must meet is that while it is one thing to tolerate behaviour and remove criminal sanctions , in this case concerning homosexual activities , it is quite another thing to facilitate and give recognition to unions built on such activities . |
| 25 | It is quite another thing to assess how out of balance the individual is and how to set about restoring the balance . |
| 26 | But it is quite another thing to go on to suggest that such a minority therefore possesses no political rights , or should be deprived of those which it holds equally with all other citizens . |
| 27 | But it is quite another thing to see the truth clearly and wilfully to reject it ; quite another thing to ascribe the power of the Holy Spirit to the devil — which is what the scribes were doing . |
| 28 | It is quite another thing to suggest that it is therefore proper to place higher burdens of proof on defendants , and to restrict the presentation of the defence . |
| 29 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |
| 30 | I am not saying that churches should not state their views about social evils , but it is quite another thing to imagine that clear statements are denting the Evil One 's power . |