Example sentences of "[adv] it be [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is for that reason that Britain will find greater interest in discussing the problems of the former Soviet Union and in establishing the rouble stabilisation fund — even though it will mean us pledging about $600m to help keep the Reds out of the red . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is for this reason that , in Braudel 's work at least , it is much more generously defined to include various stable but non-material factors . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is in this context that Evangelicals and Catholics have to look afresh at the troublesome problem of speaking of the sacrament as a ‘ sacrifice ’ . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is in this area of human relations we have most to study and most to learn . |
| 5 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 7 | perhaps it was at this time that a clerk associated with the rebel Poitevins produced a document designed to show that Henry and Eleanor were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and their marriage therefore invalid . |
| 8 | Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned . |
| 9 | So it is with some surprise that the soft left has found itself endorsing Byrne 's view of the conduct of those around him . |
| 10 | During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period . |
| 11 | So it was with some trepidation that I put forward the idea of his leaping back into the West End , twenty years after he 'd gratefully left it . |
| 12 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 13 | So it was in this instance ; that is to say , my receiving the letter from Miss Kenton , containing as it did , along with its long , rather unrevealing passages , an unmistakable nostalgia for Darlington Hall , and — I am quite sure of this — distinct hints of her desire to return here , obliged me to see my staff plan afresh . |
| 14 | Thus it was in this context , with Soviet leaders feeling that although they possessed an adequate deterrence , it was only minimally adequate , that the decision was taken to install missiles in Cuba ( see Horelick : 1964 ) . |
| 15 | The other rib , of beef I mean , to get a piece that 's worth cooking cos to carve it and everything else you need at least three ribs and the ribs are sort of usually it 's about that sort of size |
| 16 | But now it 's like that part never happened , we 're just one big happy family . |
| 17 | Well it 's against all training that we receive , there is no need for it it is just something that we would not do . |
| 18 | He bought the girls a bloody great not , well it 's like that sort of thing but it 's a big one . |
| 19 | Yeah , well it 's like this fellow that got done for speeding . |
| 20 | Tom Tom Tom knows what it 's like cos last time I was up there yesterday Tom was and Chris Turner was up there and we went past an heap and it and we said is that a lorry-load and Dennis said , well it was at this morning . |
| 21 | It was on the six o'clock nat well it was on all day , one o'clock , two o'clock , three o'clock |
| 22 | ‘ Here it 's like another planet . |
| 23 | JE : Presumably it 's for this reason that he asked Plomer to collaborate on Gloriana instead . |
| 24 | Maybe it is into this category that one should place the |
| 25 | Maybe it was for that reason that the party leader singled Mr Prescott 's past year performance out for praise in an interview in The Sunday Correspondent yesterday , calling him , chummily , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Then it is from this direction it will come ? ’ |
| 27 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 28 | When he needed a political opinion he never had to reach far for it — there it was in that treasure trove of a Welsh childhood . |
| 29 | He misinterpreted the Act and he failed to allow himself to have the jurisdiction to deal in a flexible manner with the children , which is the whole purpose of the Act , and consequently it is for this court to make the order that it appears Judge Galpin would have liked to have made and felt impeded from so doing . |
| 30 | Indeed it was at this time that scientism really began to become important , not only in Britain but throughout western Europe , the USA , Russia and Japan . |