Example sentences of "[verb] it be the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor has it been the result of government action and state control . |
| 2 | Then we 'll know it 's the shell under there , can you ? |
| 3 | ‘ If you must know it 's the men in the prison-ships who fire the gun . ’ |
| 4 | But I expect it is the effects of expatriation . |
| 5 | The majority say it is the fault of a Weak Government which could not run a Whelk Stall . |
| 6 | ‘ They say it is the cry of the Hound of the Baskervilles , ’ I replied . |
| 7 | ‘ The people say it 's the Hound of the Baskervilles , which is calling for something to hunt and kill . |
| 8 | The Americans say it 's the centre of the art world , but quite where in America I would n't understand . |
| 9 | Christians are supposed to forgive , but what if say it 's the mother of somebody who had a child that 's been murdered or if somebody has been raped you can not say that they should forgive you cos they were a Christian . |
| 10 | Yes , but when you , when you say it 's the end of time it 's , you get some people saying yes it 's always the end , for some country it 's always er collapses or what me have you , it 's always then for some government or country |
| 11 | When I say it 's the sort of answer you want I mean it 's the sort that might help you ! |
| 12 | As you say it 's the sort of thing that might appeal to people because then they can go and look at their poster . |
| 13 | Police say it 's the sort of public spirit required to help to stop the joyriding menace which is still very much in evidence this summer . |
| 14 | Police say it 's the sort of public spirit required to help to stop the joyriding menace which is still very much in evidence this summer . |
| 15 | Others say it was the shortage of pubs , shops , churches , transport and police stations . |
| 16 | Say it was the beginning of a feeling that you would like me . |
| 17 | Some say it was the importing of whole streets of fighting families from the fishquays , with their dockland diversions of prostitution , drug-dealing and handling . |
| 18 | When she awoke , rubbing at a rather stiff neck , feeling hungry , but better than she expected , she found it was the middle of the morning and sunshine was streaming into every corner of the cottage . |
| 19 | She added it 's the nature of the beast a sign of the times . |
| 20 | Then he makes up this funny word and says it 's the name of a disease by which his brain is rotting away . |
| 21 | Daniel says it 's the kind of place poor people live . ’ |
| 22 | Chambers says it 's the trade of sultan 's eunuch . ’ |
| 23 | She says it 's the end of an era . |
| 24 | Or you get thrown out and he says it 's the end of it . |
| 25 | Dowty Aerospace is making three hundred workers redundant — the company says it 's the result of a worldwide slump in the aircraft industry . |
| 26 | Allan says it 's the pressure of his work but the truth is he does n't find her appealing any more . |
| 27 | ‘ Stapleton says it 's the cry of a bird . ’ |
| 28 | Mike Bettsworth , a freelance writer and Press consultant now living in a converted chapel in the small village of Bere Alston , on the banks of the Tamar Valley at the edge of Dartmoor , says it is the slowness of life in the West and the wide open spaces which appeal to him . |
| 29 | ‘ Pike the ditcher says it is the work of the Great Community . |
| 30 | This one' — he picked one up gingerly , near to the tip — ‘ says it is the reincarnation of Cleopatra 's asp . |