Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would n't it be good if people were interested in pictures of you with no clothes on ? ’ |
| 2 | And would n't it be ironic if John Smith , after much agonising about Labour 's soul and purpose , bit the bullet , and , abandoning what many say was the reason for failure last time , promised not to put up taxes — and nobody believed him . |
| 3 | Can sticking with the sort of the general non-strategic development in the countryside , would such a policy work , would it be better than E two as proposed , would it be worse , would it be weaker ? |
| 4 | Would n't it be better if Mahmoud did it ? |
| 5 | If this is anywhere near the true figure , would n't it be nice if Mr Dobson made a substantial donation to help fund treatment for the three-year-old handicapped boy , say £2,500 , plus another £2,500 for the echocardiograph appeal ? |
| 6 | Best single by a British artist went to teeny-bop idols Take That for Could It Be Magic and Tasmin Archer took the best British newcomer award . |
| 7 | And Minny said ( she was lying beside me , oh , it 's so clear ) she said , would n't it be wonderful if Piers was dumb . |
| 8 | ‘ Would n't it be lovely if Terry was one of them ? ’ a colleague said , but Sarah said quietly that she had received a letter from him and knew when he would arrive . |
| 9 | a ) How can schools ensure that records of achievement provide evidence of the skills and aptitudes required for specific employers ' needs ? b ) Would n't it be unfair if employment tests were waived for Compact graduates , but maintained for non-Compact job applicants ? c ) If local policies are negotiated regarding this issue , what will be the implications for national companies ? |
| 10 | Might it be different if D , on hearing of P's intention to remarry , were to say , ‘ Please do not remarry . |
| 11 | Samson was the loyal suffragan of Canterbury , but he also expressed the views of the more secularly minded towards the dispute as a whole : it were well that York should submit , but it was undignified for the archbishop of Canterbury to urge his case with such unlimited fervour . |
| 12 | This case is so important , by comparison with the social situations of artists in later societies , that it is often presented as if it were singular and uniform , and this can have important effects on its more general interpretation . |
| 13 | I knew I was being bewitched , laid under a spell so intensely personal , so thrilling , I did not have the power to resist it , or to judge if it were good or evil . |
| 14 | Archer Road or ‘ The Street ’ as it was known by all who lived in it , was a bit like the curate 's egg : bits of it were good and bits of it were bad , very bad . |
| 15 | The CML accepted the force of this objection , and proposed instead that any rule , if introduced , should require solicitors simply to inform lenders immediately if it were evident that completion would be delayed by more than 3 days — a view which appeared to be supported by a considerable number of other respondents . |
| 16 | But the following year ( 1905 ) William Hamilton declared to a delegate meeting of the STA that " even if it were true that work would be lost to Edinburgh , it would be better to follow the work and get fair wages than to see the bread taken out of our mouths at home " . |
| 17 | If it were true that research effort in the area of the curriculum promoted teaching commitment , few would quarrel with the proposed obligation on the department . |
| 18 | And I was even more curious as to why it was that Milton Friedman could so confidently assert in his writings a belief in the value of freedom , or Harry Johnson in the value of efficiency or Nicholas Kaldor in the value of equality , if it were true that facts and values could be distinguished so clearly . |
| 19 | Anyway there 's a advertisement in there for Grays at Bentley and , it were funny because Jack and Sherry who we were talking to yesterday , they said that shop in Bentley did n't they ? |
| 20 | And of course with it being heavier than air it does tell you it can give a nasty headache , cause drowsiness , etcetera etcetera . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's political as Greenfields is in an independent and not a Labour ward , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's bigger than t'Towers , where Sir James lives . ’ |
| 23 | It 's Aubern , it 's bigger than Aubern Place on the left . |
| 24 | ‘ But it 's bigger than Norway , and better . ’ |
| 25 | just a , are we happy to see massive , it 's surprising once people are on E D P one weekend in three or whatever or equivalent , their overtime a a a and their you know they actually |
| 26 | After stuffing himself on mince pies and quaffing all that milk , and getting even tubbier , it 's surprising that Santa can carry all the things the 600,000 ask him for . |
| 27 | So it 's surprising that Angels works at all . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's surprising that Belgium has n't joined IBBY — there 's not much else to do in Belgium . ’ |
| 29 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 30 | So far we have had a tremendous response which has a lot to do with the product — it 's brilliant and people ca n't go wrong with it . ’ |