Example sentences of "it be [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 2 | well over , over a period , it 's and other things too but they sa they said that murals and proggie mats are involved in it . |
| 3 | Well , well , over , over a period it 's and other things too but this this set of murals and are involved in it . |
| 4 | Yeah and I was watching it on This Morning and what it is it 's because most things you 've got in your kitchen like myself are all tested on animals and they do n't label it |
| 5 | It is that two years , two and a quarter years ago I established a procedure in the Labour Party … ( uproar from audience ) . |
| 6 | It is that such questions can only be properly pursued in the company of the disciplinary studies . |
| 7 | the real politics of it is that those labels are attached , and you know that as well as I do . |
| 8 | Some groups of pieces may still form parts of the picture , but the more you shake the box , the more likely it is that these groups will get broken up and the pieces will be in a completely jumbled state in which they do n't form any sort of picture . |
| 9 | It is that these programmes , and the plutonium economy they seek to bring into being , encourage the Russian nuclear industry to think of plutonium as valuable . |
| 10 | erm Clevedon , or wherever it is that these guys hang out . |
| 11 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
| 12 | It is because carbon-based molecules are necessary for the kind of life that we find on Earth , and because those molecules are of necessity complex , that life itself is fragile . |
| 13 | It is because primary schools are difficult to classify in any but the most general terms that the phrase ‘ mixed methods ’ is used to describe the practices found in the great majority of them . |
| 14 | It is because such equalities are therefore not worth investigation ( they are all false ! ) that a totally different interpretation is usually attached to the statement |
| 15 | It is because such interfaces are believed to be dangerous that men act as they do in ritual situations . |
| 16 | This does not seem to be because the UK has more crime , or more serious crime , than comparable countries ; rather it is because more offenders are sent to custody , and for longer periods , in the UK than elsewhere . |
| 17 | It is because those Governments have been arguing for coal utilisation while our Government have sat on their hands wanting to take a swipe at miners and their communities . |
| 18 | Where the status of older people is low , it is because these attitudes determine that it will be low , not because it is a natural consequence of the ageing process . |
| 19 | It is because these qualities are so abundantly visible in photography today that the medium has some claim on our attention : photography still has much to tell us about the way the world looks and the experience of living in it . |
| 20 | It is because these principles have been lost that much modern architecture is criticized : there is no link with or respect for Nature . |
| 21 | It is because evil spirits do not fit — have no logical place or space — into the modern scientific world-view . |
| 22 | It is because organisational members see their authority as legitimate that they are prepared to obey . |
| 23 | If one seeks to understand the way in which politics is gradually dragged into the gutter , it is because hon. Members come out with such a simplistic approach . |
| 24 | ( It is because Christian feminists see such an incongruity that they want to adapt or reinterpret the myth . ) |
| 25 | It is because human societies pursue values that their study falls within the province of history rather than biology . |
| 26 | If this sort of account is true to the facts , then it is a consideration against any factual connection of the type Minsky envisaged between conscious access and ‘ reprogramming or debugging ’ , at least it is if lower-level translations normally exist as ( undebuggable ) compilations . |
| 27 | Whatever it was that these men planned , Trent remained certain that it was too sophisticated to have been plotted by the murderers of Colombia 's drug trade . |
| 28 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |
| 29 | And one of the last holidays I took , and I was on my own , I went to the United States for , and Canada for er the , the six weeks I think it was or eight weeks . |
| 30 | Partly this was due to cost , but mainly it was because French cathedrals are so vast and so lofty , with high vaults of great span , that a steeple became too great an engineering hazard . |