Example sentences of "it be [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Had it been normal parents sitting in court , would they have been ordered to pay £7,000 ? |
2 | Lexical retrieval : the lexicon is searched , and retrieved from it are abstract codes representing the content words ( nouns , verbs , adjectives , some adverbs ) that the message level representation specifies — in our example , codes representing the words boy , girl , flower , and hit . |
3 | Above it are three products fulfilling the role of distributed system management ; the OmniSQL Gateway , detailed last month , is designed to provide interoperability between a number of non-Sybase and non-relational systems , and the Replication and Navigation Servers . |
4 | Above it are three products fulfilling the role of distributed system management ; the OmniSQL Gateway , detailed last month , is designed to provide interoperability between a number of non-Sybase and non-relational systems , and the Replication and Navigation Servers . |
5 | The balcony of a gold-stone house was small as a matchbox , the family leaning on it were doll's-house figures watching the world go by . |
6 | And behind it were two Indians riding a mule , brown ponchos draped over their shoulders , straw hats jammed on their heads and held with leather thongs under the chin . |
7 | The Racial Equality Council has been told it could lose its grant , leaving it 's six staff facing redundancy . |
8 | I know it 's 'ard and awkward hours , but at least it 's regular money comin' in . ’ |
9 | Highways Department , with it 's usual highways briefing , that comes every month , erm a pamphlet or a booklet about highways in winter , we ought to put around . |
10 | But if it 's straight word processing you 're after , Q&A has most of what you need . |
11 | ELDORADO CLOSE IT 'S SHEER EL LIVING HERE NOW ! |
12 | It 's hot air blowing in . |
13 | The truth is Mr Chairman that community care had as it 's major objective extending choice , give the chance to stay at home to many people for as long as possible , to eliminated the unwanted percentage of residential placements . |
14 | It 's plump actors pretending to be working class , when their fathers are neuro-surgeons . |
15 | It 's great fun using a calculator when it 's a new toy but when you 've got to use it every time you need to work something out , |
16 | But it 's great fun watching these little monsters give undercover cop Arnie the run-around . |
17 | It 's great fun going out straight from work to dance the night away or for a hot date . |
18 | It 's private decision making . |
19 | Er er er it 's it 's one magnet working a against another . |
20 | However , we 'll see about that — it 's one thing jumping well in your own gym , but it 's another one altogether doing it in a stadium — in a championship — with thousands of people looking at you . |
21 | I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something . |
22 | It 's , it 's one thing legislating , it 's a completely different ball game when you are , erm , trying to enfor enforce it , and especially when you 're trying to enforce it with ingredients imported from abroad . |
23 | I mean , it 's one thing running along the road before breakfast when you 're twenty is n't it ? |
24 | We started talking and it 's all figures flying , and if fact it 's that Casio three , eight , seven . |
25 | It 's not chicken and egg it 's two things interacting , that 's how history actually operates . |
26 | Basically it 's two things coming together and becoming more than their whole , you 've got two things two people working together producing more than what two people can produce it 's the relationship that produces that extra little bit more . |
27 | It 's two men saving single on the off side , as a mid-off and , here comes Tufnell again to Bolton , that 's pitched up and this time plays a very defensive shot on the off side , the ball trickles out to Smith at point , that 's the end of Tufnell 's over . |
28 | Well I do n't mind , well I mean this is a horrible thing to say but I do n't necessarily mind people robbing from the rich but when it 's poor people robbing from the poor , it 's a really wank off , really wanky thing to do , you know , I just think it 's disgusting . |
29 | ‘ It 's bad news having accidents . |
30 | It 's hard work building a nest , but there s still time to stop and share a tit bit . |