Example sentences of "[conj] it be [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Although it was night and she had a fifteen-mile walk , she felt quite safe .
2 It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it .
3 Yes if you 've got time do it but do n't , with all of , it do n't feel you 've got to do it , that it 's homework and I 'm going to get annoyed if you do n't do it .
4 I ask you , how are the children going to understand that it 's Brian and I who are married ?
5 Let me tell you , though , that it 's years since I was ordered about ; they dare not even do that in the office .
6 I can quite honestly say that it is ages since I have had an evening of such delight ; and the personal interest of reading a friend 's work had very little to do with it .
7 I believe that it is nonsense that we should give such asylum seekers any form of accommodation .
8 Dr Dowling thinks that it is time that we stopped ‘ tinkering at the edges of the problem ’ of the preregistration year and totally rethought our responses to it .
9 She felt so sick that it was lunchtime before she could drag herself out of bed and come downstairs .
10 Somewhere a bell rang out in the age-old call of the Angelus , reminding her that it was midday and she had to meet Rohan .
11 The memory of their night together haunted her so relentlessly that it was daylight before she fell into an uneasy , exhausted sleep .
12 Then they said well and then I realised that it was Fennite and I 'd heard of that
13 Mother had told Mrs Archer at Baldersdale school that it was tonsillitis and I 'm not sure that she ever did find out the reality of it .
14 I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning .
15 And he had to confess that it was years since he had had such notions .
16 There is a great deal within that framework er , it 's not just about closing elderly persons homes , it 's not just about refurbishment it 's about resources and it 's resources that we 're very short of , to implement the sort of care programme that this council should be addressing .
17 But I think it 's absolutely clear that if we have , if we have no sort of terminal erm perhaps it is yes to terminal two at Stansted and I do believe that we must talk and think and act competent er Mr has put various the case but , but we are entitled to we represent Hertfordshire people and we must keep more confident er and it 's interests and I believe there is erm , if we do n't do something , somebody else would be doing that , erm and it 's and , and , and I hope that , that er the , will support and I believe that we will be doing erm so there 's a lot more complex work to be done without erm congestion on the M twenty five , although we 've got the work to put our case but at this very early stage be represented at the enquiry to put the evidence , to put the alternatives is absolutely .
18 To , from Marbella to Gibraltar and it 's places that you can stop all along the way
19 ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family .
20 My I wanted to do , is said my name is Jonathan do do , doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo do da da da da da da da money dee da my name is Jonathan ee ee ee dee doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo din din din din din din my name is Jonathan din din din and it 's mine and it 's mine oh oh oh mum mum bom bom bom bom bom , bomby om bomby om doo de doo doo doo doo dee dee dee dee doo doo doo dee doo doo dee dee dee I said my name is Jonathan come on mum I kept the cassette going .
21 And it 's plastic but it cleans ever so easy other one .
22 and the traffic and it 's Nottingham and it 's a busy place he said look at that !
23 The data are piling up thick and fast , and it is time that we paused to examine how far we have travelled and which direction we should now follow .
24 He is flipping useless and it is time that he was looking for another job .
25 He would n't tell me and went straight into the bathroom there and it was ages before he came out .
26 I started using one hand and it was ages before I learnt to use two .
27 There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house .
28 Oatcakes and and and it was porridge or they got at dinner time .
29 ‘ That little face was there and it was Nicky and it was brilliant .
30 School and college for Robert divided us anyway , and it was Ann and I who spent all our time together .
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