Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it be [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If not , then I fear that this paperback edition will come and it will be sold on a very large scale and will be smuggled to other countries where it is banned and will be read in translation , ’ Mr Chisti said . |
| 2 | About 5 o'clock on the morning of 8th October , 1835 , he was one of a group of men working underground when the rock above them began to ‘ groan and grumble ’ , indicating to the experienced miners that it was settling and about to fall on top of them . |
| 3 | On past experience , a 15 per cent fall in the value of the pound could add 3 per cent to inflationary pressures for five years unless it is contained and offset by cost controls , and increases in output and productivity . |
| 4 | He began his career as intake foreman at the maltings when it was built and is now barley buyer for the south of England . |
| 5 | Clients fill in a form that asks all sorts of personal questions and it is analysed and ‘ matched ’ to a likely candidate for their consideration . |
| 6 | The other family were made aware of the need for the venous sample some 24 hours before it was taken and were then not given the normal result for a further 24 hours . |
| 7 | I notice the difference on those occasions when it is raining and I wear a hat . |
| 8 | If the relationship between recall and other measures is entirely mediated by characteristics of the different junctions we would expect to find that within an individual junction there would be no consistent differences between those occasions when it was recalled and those when it was not recalled on any of the other variables . |