Example sentences of "[conj] it be [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Fourteen ninety nine Out of that it 's all bottles ey or most of them bottles . |
| 4 | Not that it 's any thanks to you ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One essential paradox is that it is those groups who are poorest in terms of resources to cope with difficulties who are beset with the greatest problems . |
| 7 | For although it is clear that /ε/; raising is diffusing on a much broader social front than /a/ backing , the generalization still seems to hold true that it is those persons in the inner city for whom the vowel functions less clearly as a network marker who are the principal innovators in their own communities . |
| 8 | In the following summary of current approaches to the analysis of culture , for example , Raymond Williams suggests that it is these interactions which produce the way of life defining a social collectivity : |
| 9 | It is important to realise that it is these eggs deposited in the first half of the grazing season from April to June , which give rise to the potentially dangerous populations of L3 from July to October . |
| 10 | Remember that it is these kinds of tests that are carried out in conventional ( econometric ) tests of economic theories . |
| 11 | ( Parenthetically we may note , too , that Urn argues that it is these struggles within civil society that dominate in capitalist societies rather than those in the sphere of production , hence the fragmentation of the working class in national politics , because classes-in — struggle are much more important to them than class-struggle . |
| 12 | Hurley suggests that endotoxin in the bloodstream is an epiphenomenon accompanying the transition of bacteria to their cell-wall deficient L-forms , and that it is these L-forms that are responsible for the symptoms . |
| 13 | Though Bede considered Oswald 's brother and successor , Oswiu , to have been the sixth of the overlords of the Anglo-Saxons ( HE 11 , 5 ) , it is clear that it was many years before Oswiu could securely establish himself as king even over all the northern Angles let alone as overlord of his southern neighbours and that this latter position was very short-lived . |
| 14 | I was so immersed in my thoughts that it was several seconds before I realised that the sound dinning in my ears was the telephone ringing . |
| 15 | Although it was morning and the quietest time of the day the air was already pungent with the smell of curry and spices , reminding Massingham that it was some hours since breakfast and that there was no certainty when he would get his lunch . |
| 16 | An MC200 pilot claimed one Hurricane damaged , and it is probable that it was these fighters , rather than Bf109s , which attacked Laubscher and/or Pain subsequent to their fight with the biplanes . |
| 17 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 18 | He has no teeth , so it is all gums and drool when he smiles . |
| 19 | Foul weather with squally winds put paid to an immediate start on the building so it was several months before the engine strip-down could begin under the new roof . |
| 20 | We started talking and it 's all figures flying , and if fact it 's that Casio three , eight , seven . |
| 21 | But where she used to live the houses have been pulled down ooh a few years ago and it 's all shops now . |
| 22 | And it 's all hedgehogs and stuff like that . |
| 23 | That 's more than flock to watch Madonna OR Jackson at Wembley — and it 's all thanks to you . |
| 24 | And it 's all thanks to your friend Mike . ’ |
| 25 | And it 's all thanks to Raleigh International that the 26-year-old woman , from Glencregagh Park , was able to undertake the exciting project in South West Africa . |
| 26 | A £20,0000 playground opens in Toxteth today and it 's all thanks to parent power . |
| 27 | Right , erm , yes , it 's for adults I think , and it 's such things as Leonard Cheshire Homes , er , and I ca n't thing of any other , |
| 28 | What can we get out of it and we 'll do that tomorrow , we 'll derive y'know estimates of expectations , co-efficients and and elasticities and it 's those sorts of things that you might be asked to in an exam but , you wo n't need to derive anything in your exams |
| 29 | And it 's these finds in the trays are actually real archaeological finds from real sites in York . |
| 30 | And it 's these developments that the borough council wishes to see embraced by a new policy . |