Example sentences of "it be [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had it been normal parents sitting in court , would they have been ordered to pay £7,000 ? |
| 2 | Lexical retrieval : the lexicon is searched , and retrieved from it are abstract codes representing the content words ( nouns , verbs , adjectives , some adverbs ) that the message level representation specifies — in our example , codes representing the words boy , girl , flower , and hit . |
| 3 | Above it are three products fulfilling the role of distributed system management ; the OmniSQL Gateway , detailed last month , is designed to provide interoperability between a number of non-Sybase and non-relational systems , and the Replication and Navigation Servers . |
| 4 | Above it are three products fulfilling the role of distributed system management ; the OmniSQL Gateway , detailed last month , is designed to provide interoperability between a number of non-Sybase and non-relational systems , and the Replication and Navigation Servers . |
| 5 | The balcony of a gold-stone house was small as a matchbox , the family leaning on it were doll's-house figures watching the world go by . |
| 6 | On it were four names written neatly underneath each other . |
| 7 | And behind it were two Indians riding a mule , brown ponchos draped over their shoulders , straw hats jammed on their heads and held with leather thongs under the chin . |
| 8 | On Whitsun eve , 1960 , the Central Theological Commission was set up to prepare the Council ; subject to it were ten sub-commissions presided over by the heads of the corresponding Roman dicasteries . |
| 9 | Gloucester city council meets tonight to decide on the fate of it 's controversial plans to raise council house rents by 45 per cent and to close Gloucester law centre . |
| 10 | Highways Department , with it 's usual highways briefing , that comes every month , erm a pamphlet or a booklet about highways in winter , we ought to put around . |
| 11 | When you have an unidentified body and a missing man it 's straightforward police work to put them together and see if they fit . |
| 12 | it 's fifteen minutes stop on the way back |
| 13 | Traditionally it 's 6,500 inhabitants have enjoyed lower than average unemployment , better than average housing , good schools and medical facilities . |
| 14 | Unbeknown to all , though , Harry 's bird arrived in Lisbon in 1975 , where it 's Swiss owners gave it the wrong name a nom-de-plume if you like . |
| 15 | It 's four pounds lower in |
| 16 | It was fifty , it 's thirty minutes to do the run , you only wanted a bus to repeat itself every forty minutes , so you got ten minutes to waste . |
| 17 | It 's plump actors pretending to be working class , when their fathers are neuro-surgeons . |
| 18 | ‘ Eh , lass , it 's grand ti see thi ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's grand ti see thoo , lass , ’ he breathed , and then after a ferocious bout of coughing , allowed his eyes to close again , as though the effort had been too great ! |
| 20 | We started talking and it 's all figures flying , and if fact it 's that Casio three , eight , seven . |
| 21 | It 's all systems go . ’ |
| 22 | Belfast fight boss Eastwood revealed : ‘ It 's all systems go — I have faxed Frank Warren to say that Paul Hodkinson is prepared to fight Colin McMillan in November . |
| 23 | And although Winthrop Graham of Jamaica and America 's Kevin Young were quicker in the second semi , Akabusi declared : ‘ It 's all systems go . |
| 24 | It 's all systems go for the Northern Woodworking and DIY Exhibition which is being supported by Traditional Woodworking magazine . |
| 25 | I can tell you it 's all expenses paid , it 's a fabulous trip , and er , we 'll tell you how perhaps , you can be on that plane to Sydney with us , later in the programme . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's all thanks to team work ’ , said District General Manager Andrew Lugg . |
| 27 | It 's not chicken and egg it 's two things interacting , that 's how history actually operates . |
| 28 | Basically it 's two things coming together and becoming more than their whole , you 've got two things two people working together producing more than what two people can produce it 's the relationship that produces that extra little bit more . |
| 29 | It 's two men saving single on the off side , as a mid-off and , here comes Tufnell again to Bolton , that 's pitched up and this time plays a very defensive shot on the off side , the ball trickles out to Smith at point , that 's the end of Tufnell 's over . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's good manners to tell me yours . ’ |