Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party . |
| 2 | what are the con it it 's with some schools are putting in |
| 3 | Erm it 's at some venue in Leeds . |
| 4 | Yeah but not but it 's not for school it 's for some people outside school , it 's a sort of |
| 5 | It 's about some kind of database structure thing . |
| 6 | It 's about some people they were in a car and they had an accident and they knocked down a boy , that was riding on his bike . |
| 7 | It 's worth some thought . |
| 8 | Well it 's worth some enquiries Rose is n't it ? |
| 9 | It 's like some clip from Prisoner Cell Block H . |
| 10 | Fucking horrible man , it 's like some sit-com |
| 11 | Yeah it 's like some sort of erm okay . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's like some sort of c … code , ’ said Richard , 39 — , ’ |
| 13 | It 's like some marriages — you just ca n't say |
| 14 | but , it 's like sum , it 's like some people of being allergic to different things , you know . |
| 15 | It 's like some piece of nineteenth-century allegorical sculpture : Religion and Science Watching Together over the Body of Sin . |
| 16 | It is with some pride that I am able to bring you a useful etiquette tip from the Denis Thatcher Handbook Of Handy Hints For Husbands . |
| 17 | So it is with some surprise that the soft left has found itself endorsing Byrne 's view of the conduct of those around him . |
| 18 | It is with some trepidation , therefore , that we now suggest one or two newer ways to enjoy Wensleydale . |
| 19 | It is with some trepidation that I mention our feathered friends — LARUS CANUS — the common gull . |
| 20 | It is with some photos . |
| 21 | As English Heritage do not like us , it is with some glee that I report dissent in their own ranks . |
| 22 | It is with some reluctance that I have to strongly disagree with one of my fellow presidents , but some of the impressions that her article creates are very misleading and , in some cases , offensive . |
| 23 | During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period . |
| 24 | It is with some sadness we said Goodbye recently to Tom Bryce who left us under SVS . |
| 25 | Green talks a good deal in an inflated style , and always looks sideways at the object he is speaking to ; when he looks directly forward , it is at some piece of furniture or other inanimate object , still talking all the while . |
| 26 | One of the simplest and most basic semantic judgements one can make concerning an utterance in one 's native language is whether it is to some degree odd or not . |
| 27 | For instance , in some intuitive , non-technical sense of ‘ probable ’ , we may be prepared to assert that it is to some degree probable that a very heavy smoker will die of lung cancer . |
| 28 | In other words , it is not arbitrary that the wolf and dog are closer to one another than either is to the cat , but it is to some extent arbitrary whether one recognizes some given degree of similarity by placing two species in the same genus , or in the same family . |
| 29 | It is to some extent understandable why the police have failed to learn the lesson of science . |
| 30 | It is to some extent modelled on the supposed ‘ Obrecht ’ Passion , which he mentions in his preface , though his text is entirely from St. John and he goes on to point out that he has been ‘ diligent so to set the words under the notes that almost every syllable has its note , and the four voices sing the words at the same time so that the listeners may hear the words clearly ’ . |