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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do .
2 It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery .
3 To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived .
4 There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other .
5 It 's been in this week
  Next page