Example sentences of "it be [adv] [conj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | some reason it has n't accepted it and Brian says it 's probably cos me wages have n't gone in yet , the bank they ca n't be empty , so he 's hoping to get that by the time they took it out he 's money at the end , it 's embarrassing enough , so , he 's telling me , so they had to take the stuff off him |
| 2 | I suppose it 's probably because his time at Leeds coincided with the time when I used to go to see them most frequently . |
| 3 | It 's probably because his father is n't important . |
| 4 | It 's not that my family deliberately kept Fred 's existence a secret . |
| 5 | Children are as perceptive as adults really , it 's just that their perception is slightly different and so there are certain things you do n't deal with . |
| 6 | It 's just that your father 's letter … it seems almost to suggest — ’ At which point the spill I was holding burnt my fingers . |
| 7 | It 's just that your father and I … well , we thought he was a very pleasant young man , and he seemed to like you quite a lot . ’ |
| 8 | it 's just that my mum and dad have been on ones where they do n't know where they 're going , Greece |
| 9 | It 's just that my dad repairs mine . |
| 10 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 11 | It 's just that my throat is sore and I 'm aching all over . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's just that my mother lives a few miles away from there , in Blindenhall . ’ |
| 13 | It 's just that my husband could n't get through to BR , and he rang the operator and I thought … ’ |
| 14 | Nothing drastic — it 's just that his studio is taking on a more Tardis-like appearance than before . |
| 15 | It 's just that you people probe into all sorts of things . |
| 16 | But it 's also because our supporters understand the nature of the emergency and the need to stay together until our goal is fulfilled . |
| 17 | IT 'S 7am and your partner 's rearing to start the day . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's enough that we hiv Phillis , she never forgets a face . ’ |
| 19 | It 's only as their wardrobes become full that the problem arises ; garments that turn out the wrong size are going to fill one person 's space more than another 's . |
| 20 | It 's only because your boss is here , is n't it Bill ? |
| 21 | It 's , it 's only because his bed looks comfortable . |
| 22 | ‘ They do say that it 's there that thy Robemaker has his Workshops . |
| 23 | It is simply that their numbers were fewer and hence their overall impact appears less . |
| 24 | This does not mean , however , that Elizabeth has no freedom of action at all ; it is simply that her actions must stay well within the bounds that society has placed on her . |
| 25 | It is right that our procedures should be subject to challenge and change , but her idea of turning a Government Advisory Unit into some kind of Oxford tutorial is an absurd perversion of everything that has been so slowly and painstakingly developed over the years . |
| 26 | It is here that your values and ideas about preparing children ( i.e. guiding and training them ) for life need to be worked out clearly and communicated to your youngster in the form of reasons . |
| 27 | It is here that your reviewer must admit his personal friendship with author Jim Hooper ( who is also a contributor to ‘ MI ’ Nos. 22 , 24 & 31 — Ed . |
| 28 | Another commonly-accepted indication of intelligence is the way animals deal with the unpredictable contingencies of their world through learning ; and it is here that our intuition tells us that we must be dealing with something very like intellect . |
| 29 | You should have enough energy to ascend from Scarth Gap onto Haystacks which is a jumble of rocky knolls , tarns and heather , so loved by Wainwright — in fact it is here that his ashes are now scattered . |
| 30 | It is n't that his pleasure in masculinity is suspect so much as that all that sensuous attention tells us something else about the cult of masculinity among men . |