Example sentences of "it be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 2 | ‘ Had it been normal parents sitting in court , would they have been ordered to pay £7,000 ? |
| 3 | Group rewards of a symbolic kind like a group photograph or company shield with the group 's name on it are important devices used to build up the sense of practical ideological community . |
| 4 | Lexical retrieval : the lexicon is searched , and retrieved from it are abstract codes representing the content words ( nouns , verbs , adjectives , some adverbs ) that the message level representation specifies — in our example , codes representing the words boy , girl , flower , and hit . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the extent to which we are loved , our degree of significance and the way we perceive it are different things . |
| 6 | The process which has just been described is clearly a very complex affair , but most of the decisions involved in it are programmable types of decisions . |
| 7 | Changes in the provision of health care and increasing awareness of the demoralising effects of our traditional system on the students going through it are driving changes , and we may be poised on the brink of a steep acceleration in the number of schools willing to make radical changes in their courses . |
| 8 | Behind it were towering cliffs and wide stretches of boggy tundra broken up by clumps of grey rocks covered in black , curly lichen . |
| 9 | The balcony of a gold-stone house was small as a matchbox , the family leaning on it were doll's-house figures watching the world go by . |
| 10 | It is like poetry : some people do not believe in its existence at all , others argue over whether certain arrangements of words are poetry or not : these zodiacs are as it were topographical poems , a poetic geography akin to legendary history , Like legends , with which they often link up , these poems in the landscape give an identity to a place , a personality which may especially be lacking in the urban wasteland of an area like the suburbs of London , so that the place is no longer just somewhere in the middle of nowhere that could be anywhere . |
| 11 | Blanche had drawn the hedgehog-child in a Victorian high chair at a Victorian table ; behind it were dark panes of cupboard glass , before it a huge intruding hand , pointing to its dish . |
| 12 | Around it were scattered papers , pens and folders . |
| 13 | well I , getting back to the picture you see , I , when I looked at it I thought good god it 's our Bill , I , I you could of thought it were twin brothers when I |
| 14 | Now all they had to show for it were lumpy figures , thin hair , flowered cotton overalls and carpet slippers , as they swept the scene of their former modest triumphs . |
| 15 | The lamps on it were fake candles , set in sconces like upturned lion 's paws . |
| 16 | Um , if you look at erm who 's bringing people up , again according to Daley and Wilson , I think this is where the information originated , in Canada where they 've looked at um looked at some statistics on this , if you 're being brought up by step-parents you 're seventy times more at risk than if you 're being brought up by your as it were biological parents . |
| 17 | In it were elaborate displays of every kind of knife : from vegetable knives for the kitchen , to horn-handled hunting knives . |
| 18 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 19 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 20 | It were twenty-odd years ago ! ’ |
| 21 | It 's erm , as you can see , it 's divisional guidelines for authorising costing needs to be and referred to under related documents rather than just divisional policy . |
| 22 | It 's non-stop rehearsals from now on . |
| 23 | With some of them it 's general principles because he 's the head . |
| 24 | Gloucester city council meets tonight to decide on the fate of it 's controversial plans to raise council house rents by 45 per cent and to close Gloucester law centre . |
| 25 | But that 's gon na take about five or six years to come to frui fruition because all the er chief constables are talking about it and if anything works slowly it 's chief constables . |
| 26 | It 's four-poster beds . |
| 27 | I shall vote Tory because it 's low wages |
| 28 | It 's had it 's supporters er one is always reminded that one of it 's key supporters , the former American er er secretary of state and and at the moment , globe-trotting world expert er Henry Kissinger . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's Benjy Pennyways ! ’ he cried . |
| 30 | Highways Department , with it 's usual highways briefing , that comes every month , erm a pamphlet or a booklet about highways in winter , we ought to put around . |