Example sentences of "[vb base] it [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Available evidence confirms sorry first of all the increase in the provision of affordable dwellings identified by this monitoring survey er is not being maintained , so there is a national problem South East regional problem field and in our own er monitoring report on housing development and population change we say four point seven two available evidence confirms the existence of a social housing problem in West Sussex and surveys studies suggest it is significant and that table on page forty items , gives you the precise er application position erm it is I think erm just . |
| 2 | ‘ A pity it 's necessary — unexpected drama , I mean , ’ said Jane , thinking of the stories she had heard of the bonhomie of the war , in contrast with the stiff , glib cult of the eighties . |
| 3 | To discover arbitrage possibilities in the FT-SE 100 index it is necessary to keep track of the prices of the 100 shares in the index i.e. £S , as well as the present value of the expected dividends before delivery for each of these 100 shares , i.e. £D , for each of the three available delivery dates . |
| 4 | ‘ I expect it 's private , so perhaps you 'd like to go into the dining-room ? |
| 5 | No , I expect it 's that |
| 6 | It 's quite cold here , and I expect it 's worse where you are … |
| 7 | I expect it 's all in a day 's work to an adventurous lot like you . " |
| 8 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 9 | I expect it 's true , do n't you , Toby ? ’ |
| 10 | but I mean I , I expect it 's true , everybody does well even those who er , well people who turn now , they must have , voices I 'm told about work and they could er |
| 11 | And we went all round the bed and we went all round outside , we went all through the back smelt outside Jane 's door in case she 'd she were on fire could n't find nothing , sat down and read , he said it 's cos the telly 's on and I expect it 's damp and it 's you know |
| 12 | I expect it 's hard for them to find their feet on these shifting sands . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I mean , I expect it 's difficult to manage without harming them . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I expect it 's stuck in the traffic , ’ Scarlet apologized . |
| 15 | I expect it is warmer than |
| 16 | And a fellow said to me about two ye , two to three years ago I expect it was two telegraph people up that pole out an just outside of my gate and he 's still there and I walk along the gate and he turned round to me he say you 're a lucky man ! |
| 17 | Sister said , ‘ I expect it was one of our students at present working here as a dresser . |
| 18 | I expect it was one of these walks you know , and Ian found a stick and then he thought Tim would like one . |
| 19 | I expect it was drugged . |
| 20 | But no , if you hang it up that long it 's hard work . |
| 21 | ‘ If Britain is going to produce a Wimbledon Champion it is vital that young school children are continually attracted to tennis at an early age , ’ said Durie . |
| 22 | So he saw it , told nurse it were right in folds down there |
| 23 | The tone of your information and the authority with which you report it is important . |
| 24 | They say it is incorrect , ’ says Bookseller Association director Tim Godfray . |
| 25 | Tories say it is essential to win the battle against inflation if they are to reduce the dole queues . |
| 26 | The people who designed the drill say it is capable of drilling for oil in almost any direction , and will penetrate deposits that today 's drills can not reach . |
| 27 | Some teachers say it is useful to have a pact with someone else , preferably another teacher , which allows you to complain in the most dreadful and unreasonable way to each other , in turn , for a fixed period of time like ten minutes . |
| 28 | If the conditions in which a lineage of animals lives remain constant ; say it is dry and hot and has been so without a break for 100 generations , evolution in that lineage is likely to come to a halt , at least as far as adaptations to temperature and humidity are concerned . |
| 29 | We say it is unclear why free phones should only be issued for incoming and outgoing calls and for nine nine nine calls . |
| 30 | A difficult route to grade , and some say it is nearer E3 than E2 . |