Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where 's it been all these years ? |
| 2 | Question : What do you say to suggestions made by the court that had it been any other man you would have simply warned them ? |
| 3 | Knowing what you 'd like to say and actually having the courage to come right out with it are two different things . |
| 4 | Wedged so tight against the bottom of the last page that I can hardly read it are four handwritten words that make my heart leap : ‘ Yours sincerely , Elizabeth Serafin' . |
| 5 | Would health insurance be income-related like National Insurance or would it be genuine private insurance like life insurance or house insurance ? |
| 6 | Will it be twenty-three nine point eight seven . |
| 7 | Let it be some dreamy boy of about seventeen with his hair cut in ‘ curtains ’ and some really nice gear , then she could show off to Sam and the others ! |
| 8 | Could it be some odd kind of loyalty to Naylor Massingham ? |
| 9 | ‘ Why should n't it be different this time ? ’ |
| 10 | On it were small framed photographs of the Emperor , the Prince Imperial , her sister and her mother , as well as other friends and relations . |
| 11 | Parts of it were eight hundred years old , the basements were half-filled with fine sand and whatever lived there , lived alone . |
| 12 | and it were fifty five pound . |
| 13 | The litter on the kitchen table had been pushed back to leave a clear corner on which a cloth , clean but creased , had been laid , and on it were two unmatching plates and two cups which bore no relation in design or size , to their saucers . |
| 14 | In front of it were two nineteenth-century metal conservatory chairs for visitors ; they were not very comfortable : Buzz did n't like people to stay too long . |
| 15 | Next to it were two old barns and in the confusion , myself and an Italian recruit , Gionesca , were ordered to go and find wood for a fire . |
| 16 | Dangling from it were two thin cords to be tied at the back . |
| 17 | Near it were two smaller barges , being made ready to make the short journey upriver to Edfu to collect another load of sandstone . |
| 18 | Would n't mind if it were both bloody sides but it 's only one . |
| 19 | It were twenty four percent of virtually the same amount so the age old problem of the Conservatives robbing Peter to pay Paul . |
| 20 | Well that int true , I could find one and it were twenty seven pounds fifty so I left it was , full of pretty pictures ! |
| 21 | It were lovely that cake . |
| 22 | So I mentioned it to Evelyn and , being an office-wallah , you know , and any , any e extra money she were all there , she worked it out says ooh that , it were another ten bob a week you see , well we 've been |
| 23 | She said ‘ my place ’ as though it were some stately country house , though it was just a patch of sand scrupulously cleared of grass and thorn and scooped out into a round shallow hollow … |
| 24 | Cassie gazed in fascination , watching this piece of mime as though it were some esoteric ritual . |
| 25 | Her name rolled off his tongue as if it were some rich dessert to be savoured , and the tiredness seemed suddenly to leave his face . |
| 26 | He said it as though it were some deep truth , a secret he had been let into . |
| 27 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 28 | The tangles were tugged out three times a day by a Norland nurse who attacked the mane in a moral spirit as though it were some disagreeable piece of showing-off . |
| 29 | Among those who voted against it were some closeted gays : if there was to be a purge , they did not wish to be among the victims . |
| 30 | Resting his elbows along the gutter as though it were some convenient garden fence and not at least twenty feet above the ground , he commented helpfully , ‘ You do n't look very proficient , if I might say so . ’ |