Example sentences of "[conj] it be [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 and the ones that had been cast out would be without that thing , so that 's why it 's gone in relation to that it 's because those that did n't have the faith that the army officer had would be cast out as the sons , of the sons of the kingdom , that 's why he mentioned it in likeness
2 The belay will probably be a few feet lower than it was and nearer to the exit from the groove .
3 You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way .
4 There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward .
5 And just as it was that the woman was instrumental in the fall of the human race , so it was that another woman was instrumental in its restoration .
6 But so it was that this Hungarian son of a would-be inventor moved towards his abiding preoccupation with scientific ideas .
7 It may not be so any longer and it 's because this report deals with this aspect that I feel this a vital and important matter er that that in fact comes in front of us .
8 This is one point in the course , and it is but one example , where the inter-relation between Professional Studies and the Curriculum Course is a matter for explicit emphasis .
9 And it is that each local church , of whatever sign should be invited to nominate from amongst their elder division those elders who district council might consider and recognise as dividing elders for a stated period of years with authority to do , provide them all services of worship and meetings of that local church , as the need arises .
10 The conclusion is obvious ; and it is that those local searchers for a place here , who are being crowded out by the southerners , are most likely to be northern Catholics .
11 It also , in those days was mileage for the tyres was paid on the number of miles run per tyre , so at the end of the month you could record , you knew what tyres were on a certain bus , you knew of how many miles that bus had done , so you recorded that particular tyre on that bus had run so many miles and it was that that we paid for our tyres that way .
12 France was an ally of the US and it was as such that she was to receive the greater part of the half a billion dollars in military assistance for the Far East which had been appropriated by Congress .
13 But it is that same obstinacy or , put another way , determination to win , that has not only made him a successful captain , but also into one of the most feared batsmen in the world .
14 The insecticide is carried in a very penetrating light oil but it is nor fair to expect it to penetrate heavy deposits of dust , dirt and cobwebs before it reaches the timber .
15 But it is and that 's why in flour mills
16 It is not worthwhile retrieving the matched word strings themselves if the number of matches is too large , but it is if this number is within a reasonable limit .
17 Marcus here — ’ ‘ Yeah , yeah , whatever — he maybe has n't got it yet but it 's as good as . ’
18 Oh oh oh not really , but it was when this chanting came in that the young fellas seemed to like gangs in the crowd and this when all the trouble started
19 What they could have in common it would be difficult to guess , unless it was that both were defiantly unacademic and felt the need to make a common front against the teachers — not that learning sat particularly heavy on any of them , either .
20 I wondered whether it was because neither of them had stirred herself to go through the contortions attendant upon attracting men , but it was n't that .
21 Like , for instance , can they bargain with you to alter any of the exclusion clauses , or do they have to take it as it is and that 's that ?
22 We have very little as it is and this plan will just wipe it out .
23 diverting attention from his hopelessness , while helping the group to support him vis-a-vis the child to be helped — not by recounting their own success stories but by recognising what support potential he might already have , buried as it was but ready to be drawn out by support from others .
24 Nor can any reconstructed , facsimile wilderness ever approach the condition of nature as it was before human influence became dominant .
25 Such advice is becoming as offensive , ignorant and out of touch as it was when first uttered by the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) many years ago .
26 Things were pretty tense as it was and all her own tension had come flooding back , especially when she thought of her reaction to Felipe .
27 you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ?
28 To attribute any subsequent pathology in the child to that single event would be misleading , for it is but one link in a chain of traumata , any one of which — or , more likely , the sum total of all — may be responsible for the child 's condition .
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