Example sentences of "[verb] it be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So how do we know it 's that Sunday ? |
| 2 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 3 | I do n't recognise it is that ford , that 's ford Ruth is n't it ? , that 's what it is , it 's a back ford , Pearly Way , those factories I 'm sure . |
| 4 | You say it 's all crap , but you 're starting to believe in it . |
| 5 | Police say it 's another case of rural areas being plagued by gangs of city criminals . |
| 6 | say it was any thing to bother about |
| 7 | You know I mean that 's basically what we want it 's any situation where people talk to each other , with some kind of agenda in mind . |
| 8 | ‘ But at the end of the day , we both realise it is each other 's happiness which matters most . ’ |
| 9 | If she stood firm , there was nothing he could do , she told herself — though whether she believed it was another matter . |
| 10 | A new name soon to be engraved in the swindon town hall of fame is centre-half Adrian Whitbread … a five hundred thousand pound signing from Orient Adrian was on the County Ground pitch for the first time today to line-up with his new team mates for the annual pre season picture … and as you 'd expect it was all smiles |
| 11 | She says it 's less noise , and traffic which used to be nose to tail now flows freely . |
| 12 | He says it 's another shock , to extend it five years — it 's more devastating than it was to begin with — yet more uncertainty . |
| 13 | He says it 's some kind of sadist that carries out this kind of attack . |
| 14 | Mr Sullivan says it was this incident that prompted him to stage the break in . |
| 15 | there are advantages erm and quite honestly if erm er the way I put it is that salary company car and BUPA and all that sort of thing |
| 16 | ‘ I do not understand you , ’ he rasped , ‘ but coming from you I imagine it is some acid comment . |
| 17 | I imagine it was all part of the same reaction . |
| 18 | He ha scored ten in thirty minutes before he was hit on the temple of his helmet by a ball from Marshall that lifted sharply ; with his vision blurred it was several days before he left hospital , and he did not play again all season . |
| 19 | The company behind the scam , Mandela , are refusing to fill in any more details , however , so we can only assume it 's another cash-in wind up . |
| 20 | Whether the public will want to keep on swallowing it is another matter . |
| 21 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 22 | ‘ She reckons it were that chap she worked for , the one what lives in one of they new houses here in Upper Benbury . ’ |
| 23 | He conducted sermons , and met many Nez Perce headmen , including Tuekakas , of whom he wrote : ‘ If there is one among this multitude who it may be hoped has been everlastingly benefitted by the gospel , I should believe it is this man ’ . |
| 24 | All was well at first , but when she calved it was another story . |
| 25 | Well I do n't remember it being any hassle for me . |
| 26 | At the end of my talk the chairman of the session , John G. Taylor from Kings College , London , claimed it was all nonsense . |
| 27 | ‘ Was there someone else around you would rather she had married ? ’ he asked bluntly , deciding it was that sort of conversation . |
| 28 | Police suspect it was some form of protest . |
| 29 | Fringe , flat out at racing pace , had a wildness about him I could n't really control and I guessed it was that quality which won him races . |
| 30 | we had some carbonated drinks factory I said well they they asked me if I 'd go over there and I said I ca n't work in there I 'm allergic to oranges and he said oh bloody or I 've never seen an orange , do n't worry , you know it 's all chemicals ! |