Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though our modern technology and civilization is based largely upon our ability to harness the electron , conventional physics still has no real perception of what it is we have got our hands on . |
| 2 | For what it is worth , ma'am , I would recommend an equal division of whatever it is you have to leave . ’ |
| 3 | The hospital becomes a very important place for them it is their babies home . |
| 4 | What he said was you do n't get paid until the erm the actual sort of whatever it is he 's sold has been installed . |
| 5 | that of body of whatever it was who where there have left . |
| 6 | I do n't think there 's any sort of danger in it it 's it 's in fact for use in constructing a dictionary really . |
| 7 | ‘ My lord sheriff , reverend gentlemen , ’ said the earl , ‘ you come very aptly , if Robin has reported your errand rightly , for I confess I 've been tempted to lift the lid on whatever it is they 've brought me from Ullesthorpe . |
| 8 | And tha that is one thing I 'm , I mean I 'm not I 'm not the best driver in the world , but that is one thing I do try not to do cos as you say no matter what the circumstances are , if I go up the back of somebody it is my fault . |
| 9 | Tidy up something which he 'd overlooked ; wipe the mallet clean ; clear up the evidence of whatever it was he was doing here last night ; replace the keys on the body ? |
| 10 | I could n't put my finger on what it was I disliked about him , yet now it seems plain as the nose on your face . |
| 11 | I have admired her greatly as someone who has an absolutely clear sense of what it is she is trying to achieve . |
| 12 | It would be possible to have a society in which it was everyone 's personal rule to refuse all help to the needy , but as someone who might be needy myself I can not truly will that all should turn their back upon me in such a situation . |
| 13 | I apologise for the length of this letter but I do believe that it is essential that you have a clear understanding of what it is we are to do . |
| 14 | If you put that depth of knowledge with the normal Wedding Present , you can see the talent , musicianship and understanding of what it is they are doing , ’ he says . |
| 15 | ‘ I say them two or three times and it became more obvious each time I say them that they had a real understanding of what it was they were trying to do musically . |
| 16 | Only you can look for associations , explanations and seek amplification of what it was your unconscious mind was trying to communicate to you while you slept — and dreamed . |
| 17 | Well the tower is er I 'm not quite sure about the exact height of it it 's I think it 's a hundred and over a hundred and fifty feet high er the to the top of the dome I think it 's a hundred and fifty three feet high to the top of the dome . |
| 18 | Neither change nor stasis , in any sense we could possibly understand , can have any application to whatever it is we label ‘ God ’ . |
| 19 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 20 | First we need a proper idea of what it is we are seeking to explain . |
| 21 | ‘ And have you got any idea of what it is you do to me , Maria ? |
| 22 | erm , she was buying a house for whatever it was it certainly was a lot of money |
| 23 | She let him scan her face for whatever it was he sought there and said , ‘ Yes , but beautiful evenings at home , you know . |
| 24 | to come up with er , a solution for whatever it was they were they were going into . |
| 25 | The implications of this change in tone emerged explicitly in Grenville 's setting aside of ‘ the effusions of a blind and generous passion ’ in favour of ‘ cool judgement ’ since the issue involved ‘ a large portion of the interests of the British empire of which it is your Lordships ’ duty , as an House of parliament , to take care ’ . |