Example sentences of "it be [adj] [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could it be that crime has become too easy , that violence has become too much a theme of television and videos , that respect for other people has gone too much out of fashion and too many young people see no stake for themselves in this society and see more of a future in crime and the black economy ? ’ he asked . |
| 2 | Manager Howard Kendall said : ‘ It 's better Paul has this done now and he should only miss the first two weeks of pre-season training . ’ |
| 3 | Traditionally it 's 6,500 inhabitants have enjoyed lower than average unemployment , better than average housing , good schools and medical facilities . |
| 4 | Oh , no no it 's alright , it 's that man 's gone now . |
| 5 | If there is something to be said for the project , it 's that Waggoner has been doing his homework . |
| 6 | It 's one thing to have an assistant , another to feel one is being taken over . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's one thing to have brain-dead clerks amplified to efficiency . |
| 8 | After all , ’ she said simply , ‘ it 's all Stephen has , and he 's never going to excavate it , not really , nobody 's ever going to put up the money . |
| 9 | Never in it 's entire history has it shot a gun in anger at a human being . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's bad news having accidents . |
| 11 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 12 | Ah it 's changed colour has n't it ? |
| 13 | It 's stopped working has it ? |
| 14 | It 's understood detectives have had the man under surveillance for some time . |
| 15 | It 's obvious Peter has got himself into money difficulties and hit on the idea of producing a fiancée in order to get his hands on his share as the quickest way of solving them . |
| 16 | Mind you it 's true he'd' 've got more for it probably if it 'd been working but |
| 17 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 18 | it 's an enormous adaptation that the baby has to make from being cocooned inside its mum to actually living outside , it has a whole host of new things to do , it 's got ta breath , it 's got ta eat it 's erm , it 's excretory system has got to work , bowels and bladder , it 's got to control its own temperature . |
| 19 | So it 's lucky people have n't died in these incidents ? |
| 20 | The Solid Fuel Advisory Service advises that whilst uncapping and unblocking both ends may be simple d-i-y jobs , most people would be better off asking a qualified sweep to have a look at the flue before any work is started — especially as it is good sense to have the chimney thoroughly swept before any work starts to remove soot or old bird 's nests . |
| 21 | He has earned the congratulations of many anti-tobacco campaigners : David Pollock remarked that ‘ after years of the Secretary of State either acting as referee between the industry and the anti-tobacco movement , or actively joining the industry side , it is good news to have a Secretary of State for Health joining the anti-tobacco side . |
| 22 | If there is a lesson to be learnt it is that success has been related to demonstrated achievement in a core of subjects … a qualification requiring a minimum level of achievement and minimum level of performance being set against specified standards . |
| 23 | 1991 , 27 1148 ) , I at once came to appreciate why it is that chemistry has so largely lost its appeal to the young : it is because its teaching has lost all discipline , degrading the science from a pursuit of excellence to ‘ fiddling the results ’ . |
| 24 | Although it started as a mutation , it is one nature has favoured and which has become established . |
| 25 | But it is one thing to have sufficient understanding in coming to believe and another to have it in every area of continuing to believe . |
| 26 | It is one thing to have a good system in place and then to discover that in practice , on site for example , a different system is used or that there is no system in use . |
| 27 | As it is this confusion has seen many of Mann 's photographs censored across America . |
| 28 | Worse still , in their programmes of records , of which there are many , it is common practice to have to endure several minutes of discussion on the item to be played . |
| 29 | Although the minimum age is 18 , Mr Craggs believes it is important applicants have some experience of life before they join . |
| 30 | Although the minimum age is 18 SDO Craggs believes it is important applicants have some experience of life before they join . |