Example sentences of "it [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS arguable that successive British Governments , although paying lip service from time to time to the notion of being able to change the institutions of the EEC ‘ from within ’ , have never in reality held out much hope of doing so ; rather , perhaps , has it been their true intent to use the institutions of the EEC to shape the policy of Europe in their own image . |
| 2 | Figure 1 A reed warbler feeding a young cuckoo as if it were its own offspring ( Photo : I. Wyllie ) . |
| 3 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 4 | Harriet puts her head on Jen 's shoulder , her long straight strange hair fanning across Jen 's breast as if it were her own hair , and her own short , coppery/gingery hair stops standing on end at the ghost in the wood and begins to flow loose . |
| 5 | It were my other sister 's daughter 's eighteenth and she 'd booked up a party at the club . |
| 6 | ‘ If it were my sole decision , then of course , of course I would never press it . ’ |
| 7 | Berndt said , as though it were his incisive wit alone which had arrived at the nub , ‘ The question is , what do we do with her in the meantime ? |
| 8 | He does not do this by behaving as if it were his personal project , but by quietly ensuring that things get done as decided . |
| 9 | He does not do this by behaving as if it were his personal project , but by quietly ensuring that things get done as decided . |
| 10 | He treated the assets comprised in the trust fund as his own and the trustee as though it were his mere agent or nominee . |
| 11 | How dared this man think that he could just move back into her life — after five long years — and then begin treating this place as if it were his own home ? |
| 12 | She dimly saw Aunt Emily by the fire and the silver tea service winked on a table beside her , and there , in front of the fire , standing there as comfortably as if it were his own fire , she saw with no surprise at all , that it was Michael Swinton . |
| 13 | Until the two old ladies with their umbrellas shattered his dream , he had walked through the streets of Brighton as if it were his own kingdom , doffing his flat cap to passers-by who could n't help hearing him coming from two blocks away . |
| 14 | It being their considered opinion , based on personal experience , that no one method is sufficient to meet their needs in adult life , they desire , therefore , that the Minister of Education shall with the utmost speed institute a Special Enquiry into the results of the present system and if necessary in the light of conclusions thus established , take such steps as he may think desirable to include the use of fingerspellng and signing , in conjunction with the oral teaching , in the curriculum of all Special Schools for the Deaf . |
| 15 | It being her first child . |
| 16 | prior to that article January eighty eight , was it being your personal desire for about whether or not in the year nineteen eighty seven going into the nineteen eighty eight or to have national or wider advertising , your personal view |
| 17 | ‘ It 's yer first time out . ’ |
| 18 | erm because it 's something other people have and now , now I 'm quite happy with myself and feel a lot more sure about the way I think and what I want |
| 19 | It seemed sort of hot but er I mean that 's the trouble at the moment because even if it 's something minor thing , it seems so dramatic . |
| 20 | Cos it 's them bloody things we 've got ! |
| 21 | At the end of the day , Kelly thought to herself , I suppose it 's them that matter . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's them young Teds , sir , you mark my words . |
| 23 | I thought of what my Dad called them and replied over my shoulder , ‘ It 's them two vultures . ’ |
| 24 | It 's their thirty-second sale of the year . |
| 25 | And it 's their normal machine centre range . |
| 26 | It 's their first contact . |
| 27 | Significantly , it 's their first album for A&M , who they signed with in the summer , and sounds not so much sterilised and clean , but better laid-out . |
| 28 | Yes , interesting , I 'm going to tell him now , and that three sets , obviously you know , you can work that out in seconds flat , it will be bound to be how most people do this sort of thing , and when it 's their full-time job , Oh , right , just come out of there . |
| 29 | Erm , it 's their last year at the primary school so it would nice to leave a couple of benches or something like that behind , for the old'uns to sit on . |
| 30 | Some fear it 's their last chance to secure the future they and their forefathers worked for . |