Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] it be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More stomach pains says where 's the tablets so it 's alright I can give it away can I ? |
| 2 | We 've been in a couple of times and I said that I wanted a chaise you see ooh I got this erm one for Victorian one it 's very nice , and lovely warm you know , the legs anyway it was one one thousand three hundred you see , so I thought , oh I said well I did n't wan na |
| 3 | Until about nine months ago it was normal to heap all the blame on his Interior Secretary , James Wan , a born-again Christian who has stuck to the letter of Genesis in his attempts to have the Earth subdued . |
| 4 | Five months ago it was tens of thousands , quickly to become millions , of Chinese invoking his name as a symbol of the political reforms which their own rulers would not give them . |
| 5 | Only a few months ago it was full of optimism , with real GNP growing at 5% a year , financial markets soaring , companies rushing to invest , and consumers strutting the streets with their furs and Rolex watches . |
| 6 | Similarly , with the state lacking means of its own to regulate the conduct of business by its subjects overseas it was convenient to delegate this function to the great trading companies , which also assumed responsibility for general colonial administration . |
| 7 | Any probes which have been previously mapped provide a means for ordering and orienting these contigs into their correct positions on the genome , for if two contigs contain neighbouring mapped probes then it is likely the contigs should be adjacent , even if there are no hybridisations linking them . |
| 8 | If the normal and primary way of justifying the legitimacy of an authority is that it is more likely to act successfully on the reasons which apply to its subjects then it is hard to resist the dependence thesis . |
| 9 | The Cold War was at its height when Peter Benenson , the British lawyer , founded Amnesty , and three decades later it is hard to believe that the Moscow AI Group finally has permission to become part of Soviet life . |
| 10 | In all behavioural matters and indeed in many technical matters also it is important to avoid the impression that when operations in practice contain undesirable features not predicted by designers then the designers have made mistakes . |
| 11 | With hundreds of thousands of paying spectators each week , with rising transfer fees , and the registration of clubs as limited liability companies surely it is reasonable to conclude that professional football was ‘ a business ’ ? |
| 12 | Even in today 's nuclear age such a claim would be widely reported ; three decades ago it was front-page news throughout the Western world . |
| 13 | If you put it in a tea chest and bend its limbs then it 's likely to get broken , and it would n't quite fit in you see d' you see it , And yes she she 's jumping ahead already you see . |
| 14 | I wo n't be playing squash with him for about another what , four or five days so it 's next Wednesday |
| 15 | From the tracks alone it is possible to be certain of the bipedal stance of certain dinosaurs , and to measure their stride . |
| 16 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |
| 17 | For Macmillan nineteen years later it was still , to be fair , a matter of regret . |
| 18 | In 1865 , the infant mortality rate was 154 per thousand live births ; a hundred years later it was 21.8 per thousand ( Registrar General , 1963 ) . |
| 19 | For my purposes here it is convenient to regard Barthes 's work as having two phases ; the first in which he is concerned with semiology , the second in which he is concerned with discourse . |
| 20 | When the champion hurdler , Beech Road , and Morley Street won at Cheltenham ten days ago it was hard to say which put up the better performance and which would be the stable 's first choice for the Champion Hurdle should both be trained for the race . |
| 21 | Ten years ago it was 42 . |
| 22 | Okay , yeah better transport technology a hundred and fifty years ago it was impossible t erm , to transport meat across the Atlantic it 's er , very straightforward now so the advent of different types of , er , transport technology and improved transport technology erm , has made tr , facilitated trade okay . |
| 23 | However , there is no escaping the fact that fifteen years ago it was rare to see wildly deranged people on the streets of London and other major cities . |
| 24 | Until a few years ago it was possible to stand on the incline , particularly in summer , without becoming the least aware that here once stood one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of apparatus ever constructed on English canals , and the idea of two narrow boats going up while another pair came down would have been quite beyond belief . |
| 25 | About thirty years ago it was first demonstrated that a drug , 6-mercaptopurine , suppressed the immune response to bovine serum albumen in the rabbit . |
| 26 | As for Italy , when I lived there 20 years ago it was common knowledge that many small businesses kept two sets of books : one for the authorities , the other for real . |
| 27 | Years ago it was common to graft different varieties onto a single tree trunk . |
| 28 | Well I used the word to mo er in a report I was writing years ago it was ten years ago and I knew what I meant but I had n't sat down and defined what I meant , perhaps I should have done . |
| 29 | Ten years ago it was full of Italians , who , when the Hispanics moved in , drove through and shot from car windows . |
| 30 | Two hundred years ago it was those recipes listed under the heading of creams which were much more like the fruit fools of today . |