Example sentences of "[subord] it be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She picked four kids up and you know right at end here where it 's that criss-cross ? |
| 2 | But it seems to me she should n't be locked up in Broadmoor , she should be somewhere where it 's more supervision , but more freedom where she can walk around gardens and places like that , erm |
| 3 | That seemed pretty profound , till I found another cinema where it was all violence , sex-and-violence , and violence . |
| 4 | Crocheted antimacassars graced the backs of all the chairs although it was many years since a gentleman with pomade on his hair had sat in one of them . |
| 5 | Mrs Gracie still called Nathan Holland the young gentleman , although it was several years now since he had become practically an inmate of the house . |
| 6 | It is no use us trying to clobber the economy with high taxation any more than it 's any use Lawson clobbering the economy with high interest rates … |
| 7 | Going on down er , the profit and loss account , the tax charge er , is lower as a percentage than it was this time last year . |
| 8 | It 's colder than it was this morning I think . |
| 9 | He has no teeth , so it is all gums and drool when he smiles . |
| 10 | He produces the stories at a craftsmanlike rate , no more than one a year , so it is some time since the appearance of the first volume , Pig Earth . |
| 11 | On the 18th Braid hit his 2nd shot into the road and he ‘ might have damaged the steam roller ’ so it is some comfort for us to know that the course 's own architect was penalised by his own design . |
| 12 | ‘ So it 's all hearsay , is n't it ? |
| 13 | ‘ So it 's another winner for the girl wonder ? ’ |
| 14 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 15 | She was rather young when she married and had been brought up as a lady , so it was another world for her . |
| 16 | It was obviously a popular haunt — and not just with the boating fraternity — so it was some while before their food was brought to them . |
| 17 | It meant taking Weenie and Co. , who had to be made tidy and neat , so it was some time before their caravan set forth . |
| 18 | Foul weather with squally winds put paid to an immediate start on the building so it was several months before the engine strip-down could begin under the new roof . |
| 19 | love it until it is all juice . |
| 20 | It aims to reform psychological theory , until it is more gender balanced . |
| 21 | The chef mashed a lump of raw gristle on his stove , and kept it down until it was half charcoal . |
| 22 | I have said before , and if it be any satisfaction to him I repeat it now , that if you attempt to enforce this Bill , and the people of Ulster believe , and have a right to believe , that you are doing it against the will of the people of this country , then I shall assist them in resisting it . |
| 23 | If it is some time since you last exercised on a regular basis , spend a few weeks following a gentle stretching and warming-up routine . |
| 24 | A firm can not be " enabled " to withhold information if it is any event free to withhold it . |
| 25 | If it is any consolation , it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘ memory ’ , or to the French word ‘ même ’ . |
| 26 | If it is any consolation , the whole question of arrangement seems just as much a problem for people with enviably rare and valuable collections as it is for those with hardly enough to call a collection of anything . |
| 27 | After all , if it is any good it should be able to do its job without further help . |
| 28 | The drawing system , if it is any good , is highly structured . |
| 29 | ‘ If it is another child showing this sort of behaviour towards yours , be diplomatic ! ’ |
| 30 | And if it 's that girl you 're thinking of , forget it . |