Example sentences of "it be [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding the passage of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 , adultery and the case-law governing it are still of relevance in pursuing a divorce action . |
| 2 | Should it be primarily about celebration of success and ways of ensuring further successes or is it a time for grizzling at parents ? |
| 3 | Is The Simpsons any good on tape and when will it be out on budget ? |
| 4 | The date must not be a future one , nor must it be out of date ( more than six months ) . |
| 5 | Not at all , says Sir Peter , nor would it be out of character if he went in his own carriage — and Mr Moses agrees . |
| 6 | Would it be out of order to ask what they do get paid , or what they did get paid ? |
| 7 | ‘ If it were n't for tetherball , I think we both would have died of boredom ’ |
| 8 | well it were n't on fire |
| 9 | it were just like rain dripping ! |
| 10 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 11 | This death of Solomon reissues would be understandable if it were not for treatment given by EMI to other pianists . |
| 12 | If it were not for Section 8 of the Contempt of Court Act , we might be able to make reforms more rationally on the basis of , at least , a minimal sample of the recorded deliberations of informed and unidentified jurors . |
| 13 | More straightforward were the comments recorded by Leonora Eyles of women in the early 1920s who declared that they would not mind married life so much if it were not for bedtime , or the anecdote related by a birth control pioneer to a 1930 conference on the provision of birth control information by public health authorities : |
| 14 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 15 | If it were nt for Sky I would nt have a clue exactly what teams were playing like . |
| 16 | The jewellery at wrist and neck shone as if it were still on display in the shop from which it came , and the odour from the man was simply — nothing . |
| 17 | Each of the 30 rooms is arranged as if it were still in use — the Little Drawing Room was designed by Robert Adam with gilded mouldings and intricate wall paintings . |
| 18 | But also , by the time the programme drive came to an end [ when the Emergency ended and with it the effective coercive powers of than government ] , millions had suffered harassment at the hands of government officials bent on implementing it , many , perhaps hundreds , had died from it ; the political leaders who had willed it were out of power , and in disrepute , and the programme itself was in total disarray . |
| 19 | But once you 'd lied — even if it were only by implication or simply by failing to deny something — you were forced to go on lying . |
| 20 | That said , versatility could be the Power Tool 's middle name , and in a serious rock player 's rack or studio I could see it being permanently in use . |
| 21 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 22 | It 's rather like DIY in that one day you may need a power saw to cut up some timber , the next a hand saw for some precision work . |
| 23 | It 's rather like pond life — little tadpoles eating even smaller ones and bigger ones eating them . |
| 24 | It 's straight into make-up as the experts behind-the-scenes work a little magic , then on to the wardrobe department for that all-important on-screen outfit . |
| 25 | No fun and frivolity as a treat at the end of Part 2 I 'm afraid — it 's straight into Part 3 . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll give you a quick bath and then it 's straight to bed . ’ |
| 27 | Certainly the Pentagon knows it 's already under investigation , but Hawkins did n't want anyone to know that he was pointing fingers in certain directions . |
| 28 | The laser gun is manufactured in America , where it 's already in use . |
| 29 | er obviously what you 're saying with it 's already in use and we ca n't have it ? |
| 30 | ‘ Ah , if it is n't readily defined , it 's automatically at double the rate . ’ |