Example sentences of "it be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 2 | The process which has just been described is clearly a very complex affair , but most of the decisions involved in it are programmable types of decisions . |
| 3 | Would it be that head of the family ? or the coffin maker ? |
| 4 | I looked carefully about me , hiding behind one of those contorted shapes , and glimpsed Dana in the distance , walking away from the group of friends and joining a young woman , tall , pale , dark , distinguished-looking — could it be that dancer of his ? |
| 5 | Might it be that living with Phillis had turned him patsy , a dope to any skirt ? |
| 6 | Nor might it be much consolation to him , as he ran into the singularity in real time , to know that his particles will survive in imaginary time . |
| 7 | Long-focus shots of me groping in the dark , or will it be more close-ups of my stupidity ? ’ |
| 8 | Could it be some sort of retribution for sending a 440k gif file last week ? |
| 9 | Might it be some form of … |
| 10 | Could it be some form of horse decoration . |
| 11 | would it be any help for |
| 12 | Blanche had drawn the hedgehog-child in a Victorian high chair at a Victorian table ; behind it were dark panes of cupboard glass , before it a huge intruding hand , pointing to its dish . |
| 13 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 14 | And there was a , a book , I always regret not pho photostatting it , where one of the people who write on health er made the point that you start with the full page in the book , and the outer band of it were all pictures of the world , and then it was erm a particular sort of location in a town , and then it was a house and garden and then it was a room in a house . |
| 15 | The contract is back again , I done all this erm water pipe it were all gravel in there sunk into the ground you know big hole in the ground ! |
| 16 | In it were all kinds of animals and birds . |
| 17 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
| 18 | Beautifully displayed on it were two twists of marinated salmon , sprigs of red and green lettuce and watercress , slices of passion fruit , two slices of filet of hare , a sprig of broccoli , two crumbed and fried mushrooms in a pale-gold sauce which I guessed to be pan juices , reduced and bodied out with cream . |
| 19 | So we started another thing then the , if you paid fourpence you , you could have your suit wrapped up and it were new paper with string . |
| 20 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 21 | ‘ It were that doctor with the yellow hair , were n't it ? ’ she said . |
| 22 | yes I allow the plaintiffs appeal and dismiss the defendants as it were cross appeal from the order in erm it 's the August er taxing master right of the twelfth , twelfth of August is n't it ? |
| 23 | Behind it were several sets of screens at different angles , behind which the stripogrammers or Boozebusters got changed . |
| 24 | Mixed in it were 30 kg of TCDD . |
| 25 | In it were elaborate displays of every kind of knife : from vegetable knives for the kitchen , to horn-handled hunting knives . |
| 26 | He was studying it reverently , as if it were some breviary of tobacco . |
| 27 | But again the accent was on seniority : ‘ Commonly wee do not call any a yeoman till he be married , and have children , and as it were some authoritie among his neighbours ’ . |
| 28 | Condensation is an epidemic on this estate and usually the tenants are blamed , as though it were some kind of social disease , not a structural defect . |
| 29 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 30 | Usually , one then treats one set of relations as problematic and.simply assumes the existence of the other , as if it were some sort of indeterminate background noise or , more contentiously , assigns truth to one and falsity to the other . |