Example sentences of "it be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think it were the Irish Times or something , or the Irish Betting Times or something like that , and she was the only one who did n't draw a horse , and she thought oh well that 's it , no chance . |
| 32 | However , some 25 feet down there is a side-door , which opens into passage 24 as if it were the eastern door in the Throne Room . |
| 33 | Money and how to get hold of it were the perennial problems that refused to go away . |
| 34 | Within it were the strong echoes of the disgust with politics that McCarthyism had induced , and the early excitement of the Beats and their progeny in Greenwich Village . |
| 35 | Loosely linked to it were the emerging environmentalist movements ( the link being forged by a deep suspicion of advanced technology which had raised the spectre of nuclear holocaust and then manifested itself in the devastation inflicted on Vietnam ) . |
| 36 | Pitted against it were the great princes , some with ambition to achieve political and legal independence of the crown . |
| 37 | The fleapit at the centre of another Rose script , The Smallest Show on Earth ( 1957 , Big Time Operators in US ) , directed by Ealing 's Basil Dearden , is eventually burnt to the ground by its old commissionaire : ‘ It were the only way were n't it ’ , he says to the cooing couple who inherited the place in a town stinking of glue from the local factory , together with staff so lost in the past that they still enjoy looking at Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ The Rye . |
| 38 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 39 | Twenty five years later , Bevan expressed his hostility to the EEC in terms redolent with the memory of 1930 : ‘ Are we now expected to go back almost a century , reject socialism , and clasp free trade to our bosom as though it were the only solution of our social evils ? ’ |
| 40 | America has lost patience with the Vance-Owen plan , and now rattles the ‘ lift and strike ’ strategy as if it were the only weapon in its armoury . |
| 41 | The present system , might be defensible if it were the only means by which the Chancellor could sustain tax revenue from alcoholic drinks in real terms . |
| 42 | ITN 's News at Ten homes in on Big Ben as if it were the only part of London that mattered . |
| 43 | She glared at the telephone dial as if it were the young man 's face and held the receiver away from her ear . |
| 44 | Er I do n't know whether it were the young lad that comes in , or whether it was Jes that were telling me . |
| 45 | In the typical scenario erm you have the parents as villains of the peace , you have the children or the child as being abused , you have ah typically in the er as it were the stereotypical scenario , you have the father doing the abuse , you have a certain amount of responsibility pointed at the mother . |
| 46 | Wullie Robertson , who was bleeding at the nose , was carrying a banner wrapped around a pole , as if it were the regimental standard of the Gordons . |
| 47 | There were a few obvious English tourists , but even more elderly Italians , and even a few young couples , as if it were the fashionable thing to do . |
| 48 | The small khat traders from Djibouti , who travel the route as if it were the local bus , shrieked and angrily rearranged their shawls and robes . |
| 49 | All shareware disks contain a manual that can be printed , which means you are using the program just as if it were the full priced product . |
| 50 | Standing on it were the leading American money-winner , Bob Stein , and the film actor Buck Finnegan , famous for his tough-guy roles . |
| 51 | A takeover was under way by the grey men and the only ones who survived it were the grey people . |
| 52 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 53 | At the same time he has no political authority , er , representing as it were the British government , he 's just an individual of stature , and he 's got the time and the energy to do it . |
| 54 | Its theme is that man can not hope for immortality , the only one who gained it being the Babylonian Noah . |
| 55 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |
| 56 | They like to see a golden eagle , it being the only eagle that lives in Britain . |
| 57 | We were treated very well and given fruit and drinks — despite it being the holy fasting month of Ramadan . |
| 58 | Women will continue to choose men — or men women ; each sex always believes it is the other which does the choosing — the man being a little older , a little richer , a little more decisive than the woman , for this is how the majority of the human race pairs itself off , and why the myth of female inferiority is so prevalent throughout the world — it being the direct experience of so many children in so many households that Daddy knows best and Mummy 's a fool . |
| 59 | ‘ Although he is well-known for his colours on blazers , on suits it 's the blue and blacks and the black-and-white story which we always do well with , ’ says Tolson . |
| 60 | It 's the Blue Danube , so he can . |