Example sentences of "[adv] it be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it 's all thorns , she comes to a full stop , caught and blind in a thicket of thorns like Abraham 's sacrificial ram . |
| 2 | We 're used to being told dark secrets about dead artists , but suddenly it 's open season on twentieth century public figures . |
| 3 | Suddenly it 's regimental Dalziel , the slave of the rule-book . |
| 4 | She hurt so much it was physical pain , like a knife twisting backwards and forwards . |
| 5 | Basically it 's two things coming together and becoming more than their whole , you 've got two things two people working together producing more than what two people can produce it 's the relationship that produces that extra little bit more . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's amazing what you learn and basically it 's good fun . |
| 7 | Women still , on the whole , have to achieve more than men to get to the same level in certain ways , but I think basically it 's this question of choice . |
| 8 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
| 9 | mum for so long it 's driving Dale round the bend ! |
| 10 | Perhaps it 's that bloke who locked the gates in Gibraltar so they could n't get into Spain . |
| 11 | ‘ Or perhaps it 's this city , ’ he says . |
| 12 | But perhaps it 's some quirk in your nature , and you actually get a kick out of despising the women you get involved with ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps it 's old Montezuma 's revenge , ’ he replied . |
| 14 | Perhaps it 's sour grapes , since I have plainly avoided the coup poudre that was left for me . |
| 15 | Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is religious education which is in large part to blame for this , together with the restrictions on sexuality imposed upon children in schools and colleges . |
| 17 | Perhaps it is English society in general ? |
| 18 | Perhaps it is this sense of impotence — and the sense that English 's image of ‘ effeminacy ’ or ‘ femininity ’ makes it appear unimportant-that has led postwar literary theoretical movements to espouse ideals of ‘ objectivity ’ and ‘ scientificity ’ . |
| 19 | Perhaps it is this point of political reassessment ; perhaps it is because I am mid-way through my life — the time when the past stretches widespread enough to contemplate , and the future is no longer infinite — which makes me want to catch memories . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was pure mischief in me . |
| 21 | Perhaps he was afraid of the responsibility , or perhaps it was pure selfishness . |
| 22 | Yet before them … perhaps it was pure cowardice , it is not for me to say . |
| 23 | Or perhaps it was that recollection , however poignant , was better than emptiness . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was that paradox — more than any other aspect of its nature — which would finally undo it . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps it was that bump we went over , ’ said Bob hesitantly . |
| 26 | Who was attacking it ? perhaps it was that letter from that bastard up in town . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was just procrastination . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was just embarrassment — the memory of how he had shamed himself that time when she had comforted him . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps it was this bloke Kennedy she was supposed to be meeting . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was this climate of hysteria and sanctified greed that broke the moral fibre of a mild-mannered English instructor at Columbia University called Charles Van Doren . |