Example sentences of "it be [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Beauty and the changing attitudes to it are always a reflection of how the world changes . |
| 2 | ‘ Can it be just a coincidence that this tape is alleged to have been recorded just two weeks before the Diana tape ? ’ |
| 3 | Of course , if it were simply a matter of agreeing on an arbitrary definition , there would be little problem . |
| 4 | But if it were simply a matter of providing skills to make their students more employable , that would be a much more dubious enterprise . |
| 5 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 6 | So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months . |
| 7 | Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it . |
| 8 | ‘ If only it were just a story . ’ |
| 9 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 10 | If it were merely a matter of eloquence , or energy or conviction , the education system , like other male institutions , would have been transformed by women already . |
| 11 | If it were merely a handful of Irish psychopaths against us , they might be foiled by a piece of pasteboard with a photograph and some numbers stamped on it . |
| 12 | One of the reason you get took on , I mean , it were only a borstal when he went were n't it ? |
| 13 | If it were only a matter of alcohol , would a body care ? |
| 14 | And so it 's not a case of our waiting it 's rather a case of our receiving . |
| 15 | Well , because it 's , it 's rather a case of the blind leading the the blind , erm |
| 16 | ‘ It 's rather a change , actually , ’ he murmured , ‘ to find a woman who does n't pick at her food and moan about endless diets . |
| 17 | It 's rather a relief . |
| 18 | I , too , think it 's rather a lot of money . ’ |
| 19 | Cos otherwise it 's rather a lot to eat for one person . |
| 20 | ‘ Then surely it 's rather a waste of time to bury yourself away on a Saturday night when you 'll have the bulk of the work to contend with tomorrow — when the club 's closed . ’ |
| 21 | Considering the rock at Tremadog feels so solid on a small scale , it 's rather a shame that it has a large scale tendency to become part of the scree at the foot of the crag ! |
| 22 | Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work . |
| 23 | Just one point , it 's rather a shame they ca n't be open at weekends ? |
| 24 | ‘ It 's rather a hike . ’ |
| 25 | If it 's already a bungalow . |
| 26 | Miki was worried that this important development might be passed off as a fad , a ‘ scene ’ people will get tired of : ‘ To some people it 's already a gimmick , but it 's very important , a lot of people have a lot to say . |
| 27 | It 's already a fortnight since my birthday — life seems to get ‘ hecticker ’ and ‘ hecticker ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's excellent , dazzling , and because of the original condition , it 's practically a stock plane . |
| 29 | And it 's practically a script already . |
| 30 | And if it 's not one of the ones you 've remembered you think well it 's probably a C. |