Example sentences of "[prep] it be [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 None of it 's much difference .
2 Sharpness docks is now a shadow of it 's former self .
3 But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind .
4 What 's left of it is many yards under water now .
5 The irony of it is that Hawkeye was the progenitor of every Western hero , down to John Wayne in The Searchers , who by that time is a racist .
6 The essence of it is that information is material if it is likely to make a difference in user evaluations of financial statements .
7 The camp is made of trash but none of it is any good .
8 Whether they are capable of it is another issue entirely .
9 Whether we ought to set ourselves up as molders of it is another question . ’
10 Whether he 's aware of it is another matter altogether .
11 Whether any good would come of it is another matter !
12 There is more to say about this problem , but the essence of it is this question of fact .
13 A peculiar light seemed shed over everything , by dint of it being that house and no other !
14 And there was a , a book , I always regret not pho photostatting it , where one of the people who write on health er made the point that you start with the full page in the book , and the outer band of it were all pictures of the world , and then it was erm a particular sort of location in a town , and then it was a house and garden and then it was a room in a house .
15 What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey .
16 Now you 're preaching the sacrament of the foaming fibreglass , and digging your rail into the face like it was some kind of religion .
17 Behind it were several sets of screens at different angles , behind which the stripogrammers or Boozebusters got changed .
18 With it was another sound .
19 So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds .
20 ‘ The thing is , ’ Mungo went on , ‘ under it was this bird 's skull ; like the one they … ’
21 The reason I 'm in it is that document , as the officer says , sets out the information given as the offer as the officer put it .
22 In it were all kinds of animals and birds .
23 The darkness is nothing , and beyond it is another light , and I wo n't be dead .
24 Beyond it was another raft with , even as he watched , a dark shape rearing up out of the sea alongside .
25 It 's , it 's , it 's e once , once you get over this shock of , aargh I have n't got a number , oh what am I going to do , nothing to cling on to it 's all letters , ooh I ca n't do it , I ca n't do it .
26 She 's going through a stage talk about cakey , cakey goes to it 's all sort of pathetic , oh yes hello Joseph , and erm she says pardon , pardon , she said daddy .
27 Their only hope now is that a buyer can be found who can afford vast sum , it will take to bring the building back to it 's former glory .
28 Whether he was intelligent enough not to pay heed to it was another matter .
29 Along the road leading to it were many altars and shrines and there are also remains which could belong to a theatre .
30 I think deep down it 's some kind of fear , a fear of comparisons .
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