Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 2 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 3 | Nor has it been the result of government action and state control . |
| 4 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 5 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 6 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 7 | In the case of both /Ε/; and /a/ it is the persons for whom the vowel has less significance as a network marker who seem to be leading the linguistic change . |
| 8 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 9 | No two days are the same for the Buildings Branch and says it 's the variety which makes his job so enjoyable . |
| 10 | Then he makes up this funny word and says it 's the name of a disease by which his brain is rotting away . |
| 11 | Her sister thinks of this pain all day and night and says it is the worst part and I think it is , worse even than how it is to end . |
| 12 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 13 | ‘ The chairman of the bench denies falling asleep and says it was the way he was sitting in his chair , ’ he said . |
| 14 | When all 's said and done it 's the character that counts . ’ |
| 15 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 16 | He reaches into his bag , brings out a sandwich , then stands up and inspects it is the projector beam to see what it contains . |
| 17 | Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so . |
| 18 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm so sorry — I saw the fire , and thought it was the dining-room . |
| 20 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
| 21 | him a wee note , and tell him that you , that you , you know , you can feel this er I 'll tell him I 've had a look at it , and think it 's the rib that 's showing through . |
| 22 | You could live your whole life in some tiny place and think it was the whole world . |
| 23 | For Matthew and Mark it 's the prospect of a new school , old friends to leave , and new ones to make as well as a new system of education . |
| 24 | Then she apologised for her mask , which was indeed extraordinary , and said it was the custom of her people . |
| 25 | ‘ Friends , many of them believers , came up afterwards and said it was the most beautiful funeral they had ever been to . |
| 26 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
| 27 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 28 | He offered a hand of reconciliation to whites and said it was the ANC 's job , as the country 's biggest political force , to address national unity and nation building . |
| 29 | The Federation of Small Businesses reacted positively to the Budget and said it was the result of the Chancellor 's meeting its representatives and listening to what they were saying . |
| 30 | One widow wrote to thank the organisers and said it was the most moving service she had ever attended . |