Example sentences of "[prep] it be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one hundred share index was 17.4 points higher at one stage , but finished the day well below it 's best level , 4.2 points higher at 2152.2 , at 4 o'clock the volume was mediocre at 321.7 million shares . |
| 2 | Some of it 's similar man int it ? |
| 3 | cos a lot of it 's bloody play by ear you know the contract 's |
| 4 | It 's particularly concerned about conditions in Jordanian refugee camps which two of it 's Middle East staff , sent on a fact finding mission , have described as grim . |
| 5 | And in turn , the new University is also listening to the fears of it 's future workforce . |
| 6 | None of it 's much difference . |
| 7 | Sharpness docks is now a shadow of it 's former self . |
| 8 | I mean in fact when it 's sold to tenants it 's sold at erm a fraction of it 's real value . |
| 9 | Michael X/Abdul Malik , for example , was respected and liked by some of It 's editorial board , such as Bill Levy and Jim Haynes . |
| 10 | The catholicism of McGrath 's tastes , coupled with the contacts of Miles and his wife Sue Miles , and the input of Trocchi , Moore — whom McGrath had introduced to Haynes — and Hopkins were the core of It 's initial success . |
| 11 | Well I mean I do n't wan na put in er a great deal of money because most of it 's ploughed back into the business . |
| 12 | All this is on top of it 's infamous repression of half the country 's population — the women . |
| 13 | But as the organisation has seen to be when it meets generally speaking , the council and the executive are one and the same dealing with exactly the same business , I 've considered it a meeting of the organisation , and the organisation now basically is going to be the seven sub-committee plus an Annual General Meeting of it 's full council . |
| 14 | And er , one has to admit , when you look at the literature of like , you know Gandhi , and and this kind of thing , and a lot of it 's psycho-history stuff . |
| 15 | A lot of it 's hard work . |
| 16 | Jashav Barisna says it 's auction price will be only two percent of it 's original value . |
| 17 | The estate , which was once labelled the worst in Europe because of it 's rundown condition , is being renovated in a £6 million partnership with the council and private developers . |
| 18 | But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind . |
| 19 | Apparently this particular branch is receiving more than 11,000 pieces of post every week and a high proportion of it is non-essential correspondence ‘ such as simple acknowledgments of previous transaction ’ . |
| 20 | There 's a great deal that a competent d-i-y enthusiast can undertake himself : the majority of it is hammer-and-saw work . |
| 21 | ‘ If a man will take a view of all Popery ’ , wrote the late sixteenth-century Calvinist theologian William Perkins , ‘ he shall easily see that a great part of it is mere magic . ’ |
| 22 | The irony of it is that Hawkeye was the progenitor of every Western hero , down to John Wayne in The Searchers , who by that time is a racist . |
| 23 | The essence of it is that information is material if it is likely to make a difference in user evaluations of financial statements . |
| 24 | The camp is made of trash but none of it is any good . |
| 25 | None of it is local stone : there is a tradition , perhaps connected with the Venetians or , later , the Turks , who successively occupied Crete till the late nineteenth century , of importing these stones and making jewellery . |
| 26 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 27 | Whether they are capable of it is another issue entirely . |
| 28 | Whether we ought to set ourselves up as molders of it is another question . ’ |
| 29 | Whether he 's aware of it is another matter altogether . |
| 30 | Whether any good would come of it is another matter ! |