Example sentences of "it be [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be such a sin ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It were half a bottle of Evian , 12 grapes , a piece of cheese and a small tomato . |
| 3 | ‘ Look , Blanche , I know it 's all a mess . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's all a mistake , ’ he said , trying to follow , as the mother slammed the door . |
| 5 | And if it 's all a mistake , there 'll be no harm done and no shooting . |
| 6 | He longed to protest , ‘ It 's all a mistake ! |
| 7 | ‘ It 's all a mistake . ’ |
| 8 | It 's all a mistake of calculation from when the government nationalised further education . |
| 9 | And , ’ he insisted threateningly , when it seemed she might find her voice to make some vigorous protest , ‘ if you value your job , which I 'm sure you do , you wo n't breathe a word to him that it 's all a put-up affair . ’ |
| 10 | It crossed her mind that perhaps she should , despite her employer 's ‘ … if you value your job , you wo n't breathe a word to him that it 's all a put-up affair ’ , explain some of it to Travis . |
| 11 | It 's all a phoney . |
| 12 | Cullam said again , ‘ It 's all a lie . ’ |
| 13 | people criticise this style and say it 's all a lie , they take one quick look in through the door and they say that we are all acting madly to conceal some great sadness from ourselves . |
| 14 | I wish I could help you , but I 'm sure you 'll find it 's all a misunderstanding . ’ |
| 15 | It 's all a nightmare anyway . |
| 16 | It 's all a question of what a writer can use , what the work in hand will let him use . |
| 17 | But we 're not slaves to healthy eating — it 's all a question of moderation . ’ |
| 18 | It 's all a question of the rate of your personal metabolism . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's all a question of market , of you negotiating your deals in an appropriate way . |
| 20 | Barn owls are popular as pets , though , and a good breeding pair can produce four clutches of eggs a year in captivity , which again keeps the price down — it 's all a question of supply and demand . |
| 21 | ‘ I s'pose it 's all a question o' roots , ’ he said quietly . |
| 22 | " It 's all a question of the difference between the epic and the tragic , " he said , when she expressed a preference for heroes that die . |
| 23 | It 's all a question of luck , really . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ These days it 's all a question of money , ’ Lorton said . |
| 25 | To strive , to seek , to butch it out- it 's all a question of willpower . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's all a question of balance , ’ Edward muttered . |
| 27 | It 's all a question of who you know ’ — and got a job as a DJ on a Detroit radio station on a show called Streetbeat . |
| 28 | I suppose it 's all a question of balance as Mark says . |
| 29 | He says it 's all a question of balance . |
| 30 | This is a very important way of handling statistics , is n't it , in a sense , I mean , if you 're talking about , in another context , if you talk about recidivism , and , and you say forty percent of people who go into prison reoffend within the following five years , that 's the down side , or you could say sixty percent do n't , or sixty percent keep out , and it 's all a question of how you actually phrase it . |