Example sentences of "it be [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're at all interested in that area then I have got you a reference I can give you to hand but it 's but a great deal of er architecture , certainly the thirties , forties , fifties reflected corporate status , corporate identity . |
| 2 | It was an unforgivable , though unintended , breach of confidence ; and it is but a small consolation to know that Herr Sussmeyer thereby gained a correspondence with a young woman which he has doubtless found extremely gratifying . |
| 3 | The surviving gateway to it is but a poor mutilated fragment , hardly a ‘ hallowed gate ’ . |
| 4 | Once such theoretical weaknesses are identified , it is but a simple step to weaken the right as it operates in practice . |
| 5 | The march of the matriarchal society may have been stopped here in the United Kingdom , but it is but a temporary halt , a moment in time . |
| 6 | From the dependence and normal justification theses it is but a short step to the pre-emption thesis . |
| 7 | Once the state arrogates to itself the power to decide on all economic matters it is but a short step to the physical direction of labour . |
| 8 | It is but a short step , and it logically follows , from the consideration of social reality as contingency and facticity to the consideration of the painting process itself in terms of such contingency and facticity . |
| 9 | It is but a short step from this to natural selection and evolution in the laboratory . |
| 10 | It is but a short step to relate the same topographical analysis to village plans and to suggest , from their regularity and consistency , that they may also have been planned . |
| 11 | The more rules that exist , then the more likely it is that a new product or service will impinge upon or be prohibited in some way by those rules . |
| 12 | What dreadful news it is that a lethal , new form of algae pollution has been found in one of Scotland 's best known lochs , lovely Loch Awe in Argyll . |
| 13 | Repetition of the same or similar ground can be stopped by a gentle reminder , followed by asking why it is that a particular story or incident is so important . |
| 14 | By his intimate connection with the greatest men of the day in the medical profession , he obtained for his pupils the privilege of their teaching free of expense , and thus it is that a considerable number in the ranks of our profession are pupils of Abernethy , Astley Cooper , Charles Bell , Brodie , Faraday and Brand . |
| 15 | It is whether a reasonable person , looking at the vehicle , and forming a view as to its general use , would say the vehicle might well be used on the road . |
| 16 | In some degree it is and a considerable number of products have been so harmonized . |
| 17 | It is because a low tax regime is a stimulus to effort , a way of ensuring that the British economy works effectively and that people are put back to work . |
| 18 | It is because a social group 's stock of commonsensical beliefs contains contrary elements that argument , and thereby thought , is possible . |
| 19 | And it was but a tiny fraction of the Armageddon that was the front line … |
| 20 | It was but a poor trophy for the day — a flag in exchange for a Regent , and Balliol still at large . |
| 21 | It was but a small step from this to the ‘ social gospel ’ : one started with an application of the Christian Gospel to evils in society and errors in politics . |
| 22 | From there it was but a small step to parliamentary representation : |
| 23 | True , it was but a small village , but the fact was maintained that the railway would have to establish their station at that point . |
| 24 | as if , before he saw it , it was but a pale shadow of itself ; a mere blueprint , uncreated until he saw and re-imagined it . |
| 25 | ‘ It was but a momentary cramp , that 's all . |
| 26 | If he was hurt at all , it was but a minor hurt — he walked where he was led . ’ |
| 27 | It was but a short step from there to the deduction that the woman was the one they had been ordered to look out for , and the guard shouldered the door aside , bounding inwards . |
| 28 | It was but a short hop from their first rooms in St George 's Square but represented an enormous leap in lifestyle . |
| 29 | Mills , like Marxists , also presented an historical account of the transformation of power in American society to explain how and why it was that a new power elite had developed in the post-war world . |
| 30 | And though the whole cult was largely founded on a pout , a posture , a rear view of ponytail and hindquarters and some carefully arranged shower curtains , sheets and wet clothing , the significance of it was that a young woman created a new lifestyle indisputably of the Fifties in which she took a man 's attitude to sex . |