Example sentences of "[conj] it be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She picked four kids up and you know right at end here where it 's that criss-cross ? |
| 2 | But it seems to me she should n't be locked up in Broadmoor , she should be somewhere where it 's more supervision , but more freedom where she can walk around gardens and places like that , erm |
| 3 | That seemed pretty profound , till I found another cinema where it was all violence , sex-and-violence , and violence . |
| 4 | Crocheted antimacassars graced the backs of all the chairs although it was many years since a gentleman with pomade on his hair had sat in one of them . |
| 5 | Mrs Gracie still called Nathan Holland the young gentleman , although it was several years now since he had become practically an inmate of the house . |
| 6 | Me , I 'm miserable that it 's all beginning . |
| 7 | Fourteen ninety nine Out of that it 's all bottles ey or most of them bottles . |
| 8 | What I 'm begging , especially our leaders so to speak , to do is to stop thinking that it 's all kind of a joke that 's being perpetrated by idiots or by of some sort against the public . |
| 9 | It 's not only that it 's all money in n it , that 's why |
| 10 | This is the , the awkward bit , that it 's all upside down . |
| 11 | Erm the Labour Party is absolutely furious that unemployment goes down in this country and they keep trying to say to the public that it 's all hooey and , and , and , and the figures are distorted etc. , etc. , The fact is unemployment is going down , we are overcoming the recession , er faster than any other member of the er European Community or the European union as it 's now concerned and , and these are the facts but having said all that , we on this side er certainly support a continuing strategy whether we 'll er have to continue spending money at this level , er I do n't know , hopefully er the , the recession will be overcome and the spending can be reduced , but the strategy we believe . |
| 12 | Th that 's what th the books are saying , that it 's that production of tea in the Soviet Union has gone down . |
| 13 | I get the impression that it 's some sort of systematic research , maybe a response to a leak . |
| 14 | You must n't think every time you 're tired or ca n't sleep that it 's this thing starting up again . |
| 15 | She tilted a defiant chin at him , ‘ From a friend — not that it 's any concern of yours . |
| 16 | ‘ And even if he has , I ca n't see that it 's any concern of yours , Dr Kent . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I thought , ’ she said , ignoring her father 's advice to treat him with kid gloves , ‘ not that it 's any business of yours , that I might potter into Nice for the day . ’ |
| 18 | Not that it 's any thanks to you ! ’ |
| 19 | Sonia : Seriously right , if you go to another white teacher or somebody , and tell them that they 're being prejudiced against you , they 'll make out it 's not , that it 's another reason . |
| 20 | Keith subscribes to the theory that it 's more luck than judgement . |
| 21 | The referral form is physically passed to the social worker or social work assistant in the allocation process , indicating that it is that person 's responsibility to initiate action on behalf of that client . |
| 22 | He defined shared values in the 1980s in the broadest sense , But I maintain not only that it is valid to speak about shared values in that sense , but also that it is that commonality that defines us as a society . |
| 23 | With Kiesling he argues that it is that femininity signifies inferiority to Thomas , and not femininity as such , which makes a woman unsuitable . |
| 24 | What makes The Rape so durably haunting is not its ( rather banal ) conceit of a woman viewed literally as a sex object , but the fact that it is that woman with that neck and that terrifying and terrified hair . |
| 25 | When you look more closely at this apparently innocent use of words , it is easy to see that it is all part of a very carefully engineered process . |
| 26 | On a fast , gusty launch a wooden glider will treat you to a series of creaks and groans , and occasionally bangs , which are alarming until you realize that it is all pretence and that the structure is not in the least danger of breaking up . |
| 27 | Then there is toughened glass , which is homogeneous in the sense that it is all glass , but the outside , which is susceptible to cracks , is put into compression at the expense of a tension in the protected middle . |
| 28 | And that success led to television programmes about advertising , pages in the quality press about the media world , and , of course , the image that it is all Porsches , champagne and fun . |
| 29 | Should we then insist that it is all SEGLAB 's fault and sit back waiting for it to improve ? |
| 30 | Let us admit that good taste and proper judgement have to be worked out slowly and painfully and personally , and that it is each man for himself . |