Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He says that it 's part of the town 's heritage .
2 Well it all depends if it 's value for money because we er , we fe we felt that it 's only one day .
3 She snoozes until it 's time to be fed ,
4 Mellor , again , who realises that it was irascibility over broadcasters in general that got the then government into the fine mess from which he had to extract it .
5 Meanwhile the cancer grows and it is time for serious surgery .
6 Erm generally speaking the consensus is it helps if it 's sort of on one side
7 Every other group produces more sophisticated results than yours , your own results seem to vanish in the general feedback , and to cap it all she then shows you work which is more sophisticated than any of yours , probably containing a result which is on the A level further mathematics syllabus , and declares that it is work from mixed-ability 13 year olds !
8 Putting an element in rheme position means that it is part of what the speaker has to say , and that is the very core of any message .
9 So erm seduction 's one of these words that implies more consensual type activity , implies that it 's sort of y'know kind of candle light and soft music and firelight and all that kind of thing but which it probably was n't in most cases .
10 Doing things communicating with people verbally can mean a lot more now sometimes with a lot of bureaucracy you can get sucked in to putting everything down on paper but it does n't mean as much as it does when it 's face to face communication .
11 Disastrous tour poses leading questions Following so many mistakes by the England selectors , Jeremy Allerton suggests that it 's time for changes at the top
12 Nicolas Platon ( 1968 , p.51 ) suggests that it was contact with the Minoan civilization which led to the development of the Phoenician civilization in the Levant .
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