Example sentences of "it be [conj] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In early ethnic models of settlement origin it was assumed that this was a Celtic pattern of settlement , but could it be that this pattern in fact represents the oldest arrangements in the landscape ?
2 It may not be so any longer and it 's because this report deals with this aspect that I feel this a vital and important matter er that that in fact comes in front of us .
3 And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that .
4 How refreshing it is that this year 's number one is Whitney Houston 's I Will Always Love You .
5 M my view about this is that it 's it it is it is that this exercise is that it is er something which has been done very quickly and to my mind is not capable of providing the level of assessment that would be required .
6 We have very little as it is and this plan will just wipe it out .
7 ‘ We did n't get the rub of the green and felt we deserved something , but we got zilch and I think it is because this Villa side are so good .
8 It is because this garret is at the very heart of Government .
9 However if the glucose is maintained high , in other words if the stimulus is sustained , what we see is a succession of depolarizing spikes , and the reason we see it is because this elevation of free calcium , not only leads to a insulin secretion , it also leads to the opening of calcium activated K channels which tend to hyperpolarize the membrane .
10 It is because this reaction is directed outwards against the invading motion that the phantasms are experienced as though they were the external objects which initially caused them .
11 It is not worthwhile retrieving the matched word strings themselves if the number of matches is too large , but it is if this number is within a reasonable limit .
12 Oh oh oh not really , but it was when this chanting came in that the young fellas seemed to like gangs in the crowd and this when all the trouble started
13 It was because this undertaking was the equivalent of a court order and was fully enforceable by the court that he was convicted of the offence .
14 Cos I had an awful experience about ooh , four years ago , I had this old Moggy Morris Minor coming along very slowly north of Hull it was and this chap and his about finished work you know , so I going past this cri , there 's a cricket match going on and he was looking like , I could see and his girlfriend !
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