Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 2 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 3 | They were just two points in front after a surprise defeat for Daz Sumner when suddenly the team found it 's real fighting spirit . |
| 4 | He was tall and pale and when Nicholson shook his hand he found it was icy cold . |
| 5 | Her lawyers believed it was highest settlement made in an English divorce court . |
| 6 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 7 | If she stood firm , there was nothing he could do , she told herself — though whether she believed it was another matter . |
| 8 | Last night I had no idea how to pronounce it and assumed it was pure Quechua . |
| 9 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 10 | HARROGATE ‘ 89 , the international Carpet Fair , confirmed it 's world-wide status and drawing power by again attracting an 8,000-plus visitor attendance — 14.4 per cent of the visitors coming from overseas . |
| 11 | All was well at first , but when she calved it was another story . |
| 12 | Britain 's first jet fighter , the Gloucester Meteor celebrated it 's fiftieth birthday today . |
| 13 | The Bishop 's comments come after fears expressed by Oxfam , which yesterday celebrated it 's 50th birthday . |
| 14 | At the end of my talk the chairman of the session , John G. Taylor from Kings College , London , claimed it was all nonsense . |
| 15 | Fringe , flat out at racing pace , had a wildness about him I could n't really control and I guessed it was that quality which won him races . |
| 16 | On hearing ‘ Go to it Rose Section — go to it ’ I decided it was Rose Section although the section was too far off to be identified definitely . |
| 17 | Turning to face Luce , his hands thrust into the pockets of his beige trousers , he went on , ‘ Last year I decided it was high time I had a wife and family . |
| 18 | Otherwise , the bag is a big , nylon pastel effort that expands to the size of a small marquee and then folds away to postage stamp size ( except that , like a map , once unfurled it 's hellish folding it back again ) . |
| 19 | I just I just saw it was pure virgin olive oil and I thought oh that 'll do |
| 20 | The students felt it was another infringement of their already limited freedom and disliked the highhanded manner in which it was carried out . |
| 21 | He felt it was this type of blanket discrimination against West Belfast which the legislation fails to address and any serious attempt to end discrimination must contain positive discrimination and quotas . |
| 22 | The triumph came as a surprise to many fans … but Ron Pickering knew it was another step to even greater glory . |
| 23 | I knew it was military equipment for Central America , pass it on . |
| 24 | I knew it was bad news . |
| 25 | Partly he knew it was last night 's sedative , coupled with a large slug of Miles ' Chivas Regal . |
| 26 | No , I , I knew it was some time but I just I remembered Louise 's birthday because Louise 's birthday was the Friday the thirteenth |
| 27 | I thought it 's only child . |
| 28 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 29 | Mrs Kipling said when she put her children Gwynne , three , Sarah-Jayne , two , and nine-month-old Aaron to bed , Gwynne said he could smell something but she thought it was burning toast . |
| 30 | I said I thought it was that way but , you know , agreed with them . |