Example sentences of "[conj] it be [noun sg] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She felt so sick that it was lunchtime before she could drag herself out of bed and come downstairs .
2 The memory of their night together haunted her so relentlessly that it was daylight before she fell into an uneasy , exhausted sleep .
3 So the maximum value a coeffic correlation coefficient can obtain is plus one , and that would be when there 's a total positive correlation Conversely , the minimum value it can obtain is when this expression on top is minus N minus one , so it goes down to minus one for a complete negative correlation and it 's zero if there 's no correlation and then there 's the values in between That 's just saying what I 've said .
4 I do n't know if it is mate cos I , I do it all the time cos yo ya , a lot of it is jumping to intimidate .
5 The girl replied : ‘ I ca n't remember if it was daddy because I was only three . ’
6 I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then
7 But it is guesswork because I do n't know the gentlemen concerned and I do n't know the full facts .
8 ‘ Ye-es , ’ the man next to me agreed , ‘ but it 's madness unless you 've got the money to bribe the right officials .
9 Naturally I was very keen to get back into cutter activities as soon as possible , but it was year before I managed to establish myself into cutter crewing duties once more .
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