Example sentences of "it be [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's founder must raise £1m to get the project underway . |
| 2 | If the Squadron gets the call , it 's personnel will be flying out to Bosnia within hours . |
| 3 | I would be putting everything I needed into the horse box until about ten o'clock and at about half past ten my horse and it 's tack would be in there as well and I would be on my way with my day to an eleven thirty meet at a pub nearby . |
| 4 | It 's structure will comprise ordinary shares , with warrants attached on a one-for-five basis at an issue price of £1 a share . |
| 5 | In a year , it 'll add up to over a hundred thousand pounds — if that happens the social services department says it 's budget will be so stretched it may be forced to make cuts in other areas . |
| 6 | The legs of the spider are coming off but it 's heart will stay in place |
| 7 | It 's success could be put down to the hard sell . |
| 8 | It 's surveyor will inspect the rectory in two weeks time . |
| 9 | It 's results will be published at the end of next year , when scientists and patients will find out if it 's more than just a ray of hope . |
| 10 | But the one on the right it 's glass will cost you more to replace than the complete |
| 11 | It 's staff would probably have decried any such connection with the upmarket skin magazine 's Hugh Hefner , but it was there none the less . |
| 12 | I mean , since it 's Christmas would n't it be a good idea to invoke a Sanity Clause against the entire Cabinet , committing the whole damn lot of them to some underfunded and desperate NHS asylum ? |
| 13 | Yes , it 's in a building attached to the wall of the Convent , so that it 's people can walk in off the street directly into The Porch . |
| 14 | That 's the of con of considerable concern , and it will mean possibly that faith er farm workers who rely on overtime to increase it 's wages will will suffer as a result . |
| 15 | It 's Thursday can you not park next to that |
| 16 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 17 | The notion of absence of a before/after relation between the bare infinitive and the verb to which it is incident can be applied quite readily to its use with auxiliary do , if one takes into account the peculiar nature of auxiliaries . |
| 18 | Only when it is dark should you leave — and be careful ! |
| 19 | 'T IS fashion 'd too with ev'ry little Art : |
| 20 | back no he said and it was dad 'd tell you more he he said |
| 21 | After all there must be something more to life than sleeping in a garden shed and having no money and nobody who cared twopence whether you were alive or dead ( not after the competition , anyway — Nutty at least needed him till then ) but what it was Nails could not fathom . |