Example sentences of "[conj] it be [det] [noun sg] " 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 | Me , I 'm miserable that it 's all beginning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's not only that it 's all money in n it , that 's why |
| 7 | This is the , the awkward bit , that it 's all upside down . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Th that 's what th the books are saying , that it 's that production of tea in the Soviet Union has gone down . |
| 10 | I get the impression that it 's some sort of systematic research , maybe a response to a leak . |
| 11 | You must n't think every time you 're tired or ca n't sleep that it 's this thing starting up again . |
| 12 | She tilted a defiant chin at him , ‘ From a friend — not that it 's any concern of yours . |
| 13 | ‘ And even if he has , I ca n't see that it 's any concern of yours , Dr Kent . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Keith subscribes to the theory that it 's more luck than judgement . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | With Kiesling he argues that it is that femininity signifies inferiority to Thomas , and not femininity as such , which makes a woman unsuitable . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The task here is to make people feel that it is some way superior , " Nothing works faster than Anadin " , is probably one of the best examples . |
| 26 | The first contends that the word ‘ appropriate ’ has built into it a connotation that it is some action inconsistent with the owner 's rights , something hostile to the interests of the owner or contrary to his wishes and intention or without his authority . |
| 27 | The depression on the ‘ blade ’ and the overall shape suggest to me that it is some sort of agricultural implement , such as a weeding paddle or potato lifter . |
| 28 | Er are you saying that it is any part of the Council 's case that this land th it it 's it is er a possibility that having this land as a strategic reserve er can er is of assistance , or are you saying that it is simply er having included it in , it might form part of a strategic reserve ? |
| 29 | How can I avoid seeing that it is this kind of government that threatens my grandchildren ? ’ |
| 30 | They go on to note that it is this feature of the market that necessitates detailed regulation to protect the interests of the shareholders , a principal objective of the City Code on Take-overs and Mergers being , for instance , to ensure a fair distribution of the take-over premium among the members . |