Example sentences of "[verb] it be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 2 | For none of the above has it been a lonely battle . |
| 3 | Has it been a result of clear theological arguments ? |
| 4 | Has it been a happy one that augurs well for the ‘ marriage ’ of your two households ? |
| 5 | Has it been a pleasant experience ? |
| 6 | Now what essentially , what you 're doing , is that you 're writing an essay in very , very condensed form , so it 's just , I mean you still , still must have the same recipe in there when you write a short answer , right , but you just have to be very , very brief , so you know , para paragraph on definition , you know , paragraph of examples , right , erm , paragraph on some sort of explanation or erm , how it 's , how it 's measured erm , has it been a contentious issue erm , what are the problems with this er , with this concept erm , right , you 've got to get those sort of things in there , like you would in an essay , if you were asked to write an essay on reciprocal dumping you 'd , you 'd have all those things in there , right , but you only need to write a sentence , a sentence about them . |
| 7 | Has it been a distinctive political culture , citizens being prepared to acquiesce in and , when called on , to support the demands made of them by government ? |
| 8 | Of those , of those thirty nine has a , has it been a good experience or not ? |
| 9 | Or has it been a build up over a ye number of years |
| 10 | The tour is almost over , but has it been a success . |
| 11 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 12 | Yeah but how many , how many times has it been a shop ? |
| 13 | Has it been a nuisance having them ? |
| 14 | In fact has it been a very difficult year for you or have you been able to have some control , because it 's all down to the watering I guess |
| 15 | Nor has it been the result of government action and state control . |
| 16 | Has it been an interesting experience then for you all seeing artists so close and at work ? |
| 17 | The Genesis flood story has a recognizable background in Mesopotamia , and the numerous similarities suggest it is a record of the same event as the Babylonian . |
| 18 | And erm since we 're both to some extent , crystal ball gazing , I suggest it 's a matter of choice which to believe is most likely . |
| 19 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 20 | However , more recent sightings by Archbishop Trench in the sixteenth century suggest it was a beast in its own right : |
| 21 | ‘ How else would she know it 's a thing like that ? ’ retorted Hester , unabashed . |
| 22 | I do n't even know it 's a good idea they should be sorted out . |
| 23 | Miss Menzies suddenly stood up , looked him straight in the eyes and said , ‘ Do you know it 's a very serious offence to impersonate a police officer ? ’ |
| 24 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 25 | I do n't know it 's a hundred and fifty or something . |
| 26 | Do n't know it 's a mauve , something . |
| 27 | I do n't know it 's a bin ! |
| 28 | I do n't know it 's a pain I know that , I mean we do n't want to hear anything do we ? |
| 29 | Ah yes , this one 's been , we 've all been very organised on this , you know , so it 's been better than most , but , 'cos er you were , er you 've seen it and your listeners who 've seen it will know it 's a very complex play , so it 's made us get more disciplined to start with . |
| 30 | How do you know it 's a she ? |