Example sentences of "it be [det] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And director Patrick Garland gives these tender moments ( notably Lockwood West wistfully singing ‘ It Were All Green Hills ’ ) as much emphasis as the noisy production numbers . |
2 | ‘ It 's that Mildred Hubble ! ’ said Griselda , who was almost in tears . |
3 | It 's that Paula Bristow — Lady Muck herself . |
4 | ‘ It 's that Becky Salmon . |
5 | If you compare it with other departments , if you talk to people who do English and stuff , and they know all their tutors by their first names ; I mean , it 's nothing like that here , it 's all Dr So-and-So — I mean , half the lecturers , I did n't even know what their second names were , let alone their first names — maybe that 's just a result of physics , nothing to do with them . |
6 | Yeah , but then you , that impression made me think that all , it 's all South Africa , which , which was why |
7 | Nowadays it 's all Nirvana imports and ‘ Needed . |
8 | ‘ It 's this Werner business , Bodo . |
9 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
10 | Well it 's another Vauxhall ad but it does n't make sense buy a Nova with a good deal or very little . |
11 | Do n't pretend it 's another Gina Hughes , because I 'll tell you something more . |
12 | It was all Dorset words , I mean that was really be beautiful ! |
13 | It was all Uncle Willi 's fault that Karl was so angry with her . |
14 | Then Ron Dennis got up and said it was all John Barnard 's work and.McLaren 's and they were bloody geniuses and Niki … |
15 | But rapture it was that Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1990 when Ian McGeechan 's tartan lads won the Grand Slam , the Triple Crown , the Calcutta Cup and the hearts of all of us numb with tear-stained joy in the stands and terracings of Murrayfield . |
16 | But shortly before the break , it was former Hereford player Paul Wheeler who put Chester two ahead . |
17 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
18 | It was this Washington Department which enforced the restrictions on strategic exports to the Soviet Union and its friends . |
19 | ( It was this Thomas Peall who , while still at College in 1795 , produced glanders in an ass by placing the discharge from a farcy ulcer inside the nostrils ) . |
20 | It was another Sunday noon show — in Leeds , Rainworth Social Club . |
21 | Confusingly , it was another Richard Hutchinson , of the City and later of Stepney , who was co-treasurer for sick and wounded soldiers , widows , and orphans from 1643 to 1660 and a judge for imprisoned debtors in 1653–4 , and who served as co-paymaster of the navy under the treasurers in 1688–71 , appearing in the latter part of Pepys 's diary . |