Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been in the day time I 'm sure there would have been lives lost for they would n't have stayed in to seen their stuff go under . |
| 2 | There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years . |
| 3 | And meanwhile , next year 's potatoes will not be planted because the men who should be doing it are on the public works instead — and they are on the public works because that is the only place they can get money to buy the meal they need to replace the potato that failed . ’ |
| 4 | Of what interest could it be to the man where her father was born ? |
| 5 | Should n't it be on the floor ? |
| 6 | I wonder , therefore , if I could ask you to take only one copy — would it be for the IBM/CMS or the Sun/3 with UNIX configuration ? |
| 7 | The more continuous and lasting a direct interpersonal encounter , the harder will it be for the encounter to assume a purely instrumental quality . |
| 8 | How could it be with the clown candidate Ross ‘ I 'm All Ears ’ Perot . |
| 9 | ‘ Will it be with the Student Communist Party or Opus Dei ? ’ — both risks springing to the mind of a parent living in an ancient university city . |
| 10 | Or what can it be in the context of large-scale modern societies ? |
| 11 | Ca n't it , could it be in the quality manual , rather than erm , have a procedure about how to write a proce , when to start and have a pro . |
| 12 | It was a bit like having someone rub you with suntan cream , yet it was n't like that at all — how could it be in the dark ? |
| 13 | But would it be within the spirit of the manifesto to murmur , read my lips , no more direct taxes ? |
| 14 | all the things that happen , all these sighs of oppression , because I think really what we 're talking about , whether it be within the family or it be within the media , all the signs of women as er sexist |
| 15 | For the next 100 million years parts of it were under the sea and it was covered with layers of sandstone , then limestone , and swampy forests which were buried between layers of mud and sand . |
| 16 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 17 | Thus , if we assume a simple deterministic relationship between the social and religious orders ( as anthropologists all too often do ) , we can expect that Nuer religion similarly extends , as it were into the skies , its own secular lineage structure . |
| 18 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 19 | This is very difficult because it means er it is a potential threat as it were to the countryside of the county . |
| 20 | Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference . |
| 21 | The Labour leadership was sceptical about workers ' control , indeed Cripps is reported as having said ‘ I think it would be almost impossible to have worker-controlled industry in Britain even if it were on the whole desirable ’ ( Coates & Topham , 1975 , p. 60 ) . |
| 22 | I , er first of all I was a kind of shy wee laddie as it were on the council . |
| 23 | Her fresh-faced expression gazing as it were on the threshold of life is a poignant reminder of the passing of time and finite nature of dreams . |
| 24 | And , no it were all bloody big grey streaks and that on me , it were on the sheets . |
| 25 | For example , an ambiguous stop segment at the beginning of would be less likely to be identified as than if it were at the beginning of . |
| 26 | When he was consecrated , however , Cranmer made a public protestation that any oath which he took acknowledging the authority of the Pope was not intended to be binding if it were against the law of God or the King 's prerogatives , nor would it bind him to be less free in reformation of the Church . |
| 27 | The men and women who made it were among the friends who welcomed us to Nigeria and Ghana . |
| 28 | To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell . |
| 29 | But he would give her anything then but it were like the doctor said it was too late . |
| 30 | The animal 's diet has to be similar , if not exactly the same as , its diet would be if it were in the wild . |