Example sentences of "it be [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS arguable that successive British Governments , although paying lip service from time to time to the notion of being able to change the institutions of the EEC ‘ from within ’ , have never in reality held out much hope of doing so ; rather , perhaps , has it been their true intent to use the institutions of the EEC to shape the policy of Europe in their own image . |
| 2 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 3 | Harriet puts her head on Jen 's shoulder , her long straight strange hair fanning across Jen 's breast as if it were her own hair , and her own short , coppery/gingery hair stops standing on end at the ghost in the wood and begins to flow loose . |
| 4 | It were my other sister 's daughter 's eighteenth and she 'd booked up a party at the club . |
| 5 | ‘ If it were my sole decision , then of course , of course I would never press it . ’ |
| 6 | Berndt said , as though it were his incisive wit alone which had arrived at the nub , ‘ The question is , what do we do with her in the meantime ? |
| 7 | He does not do this by behaving as if it were his personal project , but by quietly ensuring that things get done as decided . |
| 8 | He does not do this by behaving as if it were his personal project , but by quietly ensuring that things get done as decided . |
| 9 | He treated the assets comprised in the trust fund as his own and the trustee as though it were his mere agent or nominee . |
| 10 | How dared this man think that he could just move back into her life — after five long years — and then begin treating this place as if it were his own home ? |
| 11 | She dimly saw Aunt Emily by the fire and the silver tea service winked on a table beside her , and there , in front of the fire , standing there as comfortably as if it were his own fire , she saw with no surprise at all , that it was Michael Swinton . |
| 12 | Until the two old ladies with their umbrellas shattered his dream , he had walked through the streets of Brighton as if it were his own kingdom , doffing his flat cap to passers-by who could n't help hearing him coming from two blocks away . |
| 13 | It being their considered opinion , based on personal experience , that no one method is sufficient to meet their needs in adult life , they desire , therefore , that the Minister of Education shall with the utmost speed institute a Special Enquiry into the results of the present system and if necessary in the light of conclusions thus established , take such steps as he may think desirable to include the use of fingerspellng and signing , in conjunction with the oral teaching , in the curriculum of all Special Schools for the Deaf . |
| 14 | It being her first child . |
| 15 | prior to that article January eighty eight , was it being your personal desire for about whether or not in the year nineteen eighty seven going into the nineteen eighty eight or to have national or wider advertising , your personal view |
| 16 | ‘ It 's yer first time out . ’ |
| 17 | It seemed sort of hot but er I mean that 's the trouble at the moment because even if it 's something minor thing , it seems so dramatic . |
| 18 | At the end of the day , Kelly thought to herself , I suppose it 's them that matter . |
| 19 | It 's their thirty-second sale of the year . |
| 20 | And it 's their normal machine centre range . |
| 21 | It 's their first contact . |
| 22 | Significantly , it 's their first album for A&M , who they signed with in the summer , and sounds not so much sterilised and clean , but better laid-out . |
| 23 | Yes , interesting , I 'm going to tell him now , and that three sets , obviously you know , you can work that out in seconds flat , it will be bound to be how most people do this sort of thing , and when it 's their full-time job , Oh , right , just come out of there . |
| 24 | Erm , it 's their last year at the primary school so it would nice to leave a couple of benches or something like that behind , for the old'uns to sit on . |
| 25 | Some fear it 's their last chance to secure the future they and their forefathers worked for . |
| 26 | It 's their last song , the one everyone has been waiting for , it 's their biggest hit — it 's a hysterical cock-up . |
| 27 | Yes Chairman , the figure of a hundred thousand as we said did , was erm a figure quoted on by account chief 's executive of the purchasing consortium erm , that was spoken at a public meeting held here in Harlow last week erm the issue of the the transport around the area erm , was accepted by the the chief executive of the health authority erm or of that of the consortium erm , and the and the view that it would be much more difficult with the lack of public transport to get to the more relo , remote areas of Essex the the reason that the erm reduced use of London was put into this report was also erm , clearly stated by the chief executive , i it 's their clear aim to provide more of , to purchase more of the services from within the north Essex area , and that was stated in a major part of the conta , of of their erm achievements and that automatically means a reduced amount of choice for those people who would otherwise for , to London . |
| 28 | They call it survival of the fittest , although it 's their own survival they are now worried about . |
| 29 | They call it survival of the fittest , although it 's their own survival they are now worried about . |
| 30 | and they pay rent and it 's their own room and she can do what she likes in that own room . |