Example sentences of "it be [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |
| 2 | In response to a further query , he added irritably : ‘ Sure it 's about sex — what else would it be about with a title like that ? ’ |
| 3 | They reckon it 's up to a million now . ’ |
| 4 | It 's up to a point . |
| 5 | Hitachi Ltd has put a tiger team from its Network Products Group in Silicon Valley on developing local network-based multisystem electronic mail products , hoping to have them all gussied up in time for a third-quarter roll-out : Hitachi reckons that it 's on to a good thing because veca : International Data Corp predicts the worldwide market will be 77m users in 1996 ; Hitachi is expected to make a point of integration , management and directory synchronisation likely using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol . |
| 6 | Hitachi figures it 's on to a good thing : IDC predicts the worldwide market will be 77 million users in 1996 . |
| 7 | It 's on in a moment . |
| 8 | when you do n't the sun it 's in like a |
| 9 | You half expect their quiet moments to be a mere ‘ quiet before the storm ’ intro to some Metallica prog-thrash epic about hellspawn putrefaction , but then they meander into Sonic Youth discordant territory , then suddenly it 's walls of sonic bliss , then it 's off into a sample-aided , arse-quaking , ‘ Die asshole muthaf—er ’ industrial rant , then some tedious feedback wanking then … erm , that 's it . |
| 10 | It 's about minus a million , so it 's about minus a million squared . |
| 11 | It 's about minus a million , so it 's about minus a million squared . |
| 12 | having this whole thing out , right , she 'd pay right , I bring home wage , right believe it or not I 'll tell you it 's about between a hundred and eleven and a hundred and fourteen pounds a week , that 's forty and ten , that 's a hundred and fifty pounds a week , right , now if she got to pay poll tax out of that , right , what she 's getting which is twenty odd pounds a month |
| 13 | He thinks it 's out of a DEC High Performance Systems Group lab in Marlboro , Massachusetts . |
| 14 | No , not , no it 's out of a book . |
| 15 | ‘ I think we both realise that if we are booted off RCA , it 's back to a bedsit . |
| 16 | And you know , as we come and submit ourselves to God , and as we look back , whether it 's back on a day , on a week , on a month , on year , on a lifetime , he has given to us far , far more than we could ever have asked or expected from him ! , as the apostle said , he is able to do abundantly above all that we can ask or think ! |
| 17 | Now in the election of auditors , I gather it 's , it 's down to a formality , David ? |
| 18 | ‘ So it 's down to a combination of continued good Presbyterian attitudes to housekeeping and our taking advantage of the recession to continue with our policy of expansion and growth . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It is up to a man , ’ she said ‘ to make a marriage a source of peace or misery , because the man has power ; our women usually have none . ’ |
| 20 | Sown in early July , it is up in a matter of days . |
| 21 | It is usual to write a short title to each memo in order that the reader can see what it is about at a glance |
| 22 | Under the sound money party , it is back with a vengeance — £20 billion next year . |
| 23 | Lloyds has made a clandestine but vigorous pass at Midland and still thinks it is in with a chance and can outbid Hongkong if it can make savings through ruthless high street rationalisation — in effect , putting two banks ' business through one 's network . |
| 24 | In the end , it is down to a person 's individual choice whether to be bad and to commit crime . |
| 25 | At 2.94m , 10.5% of the labour force , it is down from a peak of 2.99m in January . |
| 26 | BELOW There is plenty to interest a young puppy when it is out for a walk , but beware of hidden dangers . |
| 27 | Whether this flows from a suspicion of private undertakings which lurks in every large bureaucracy , or whether it is out of a deeper political distaste for what Britain has done , or from a misguided belief that state-owned organisations are cleaner and safer than private ones , is unclear . |
| 28 | I think it was round about a ha'penny a mile in those days . |
| 29 | It was over in a few seconds . |
| 30 | It was over in a matter of seconds . |