Example sentences of "it [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long has it been since I got a present from a girl ? |
| 2 | Could it be that someone had an interest in keeping it alive ? |
| 3 | With stress on ‘ comes ’ , could it be that she gets a lift back ? |
| 4 | Can it be that you have no idea of the power a young , nubile girl can exercise over a young , impressionable male ? ’ |
| 5 | It does n't though , and the photocopiers are good enough to pass official muster , how long can it be before we have the sort of crisis of confidence in our physical currency not seen since the days of the coin-clipping Tudors ? |
| 6 | How much further would it be before she reached the main road ? |
| 7 | ‘ And how would it be if we offered a slight reduction for buying the two tickets together ? |
| 8 | So that 's one tenth and that 's one tenth and then what I 'd like you to do is work it out as a fraction what fraction of how many degrees would it be if you had a tenth of three hundred and sixty degrees , how many degrees would that come to ? |
| 9 | Now , I have put down reports about the finance committee er as it were but I think the responses from the churches and districts sort of calculator will be there , we think that it would seem as though we should only offer the same amount as last year . |
| 10 | If we go to an exhibition together we find that we like the same paintings ; so I think it 's that we have an empathy in our way of painting , in the whole attitude to painting . |
| 11 | It 's whether we put the desk in the room . |
| 12 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
| 13 | It 's like she flashed a bright light in my eyes , and I have to look away . |
| 14 | Ah no , racing , ah , it 's cos I bought a horse , that 's why |
| 15 | I think it 's cos he feels a bit rough actually , he 's got a terrible cold . |
| 16 | right , right so that 's that 's partly to do with you your preparation is n't it but it 's if I put the word script |
| 17 | But it 's because we accepted the challenge of change , even though we may not have liked everything that went with it , that we 're here today . |
| 18 | Maybe it 's because we have a major problem with superfluous hair . |
| 19 | If I sounded dubious about The Smiths , it 's because they represented the first threat to us . ’ |
| 20 | I believe it 's because they have the best connections , and they 're paying the most money . |
| 21 | When dey blow a whistle it 's because dey dig de style |
| 22 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 23 | Saw the bit where , it 's got like tha that where he 's been , he said , I think it 's because I had the , I smoked pot or something , marijuana once then I got I got busted or something and ! |
| 24 | He treats his actors as equals , and if he ask you a question , it 's because he wants an answer — not because he 's testing you . ’ |
| 25 | Maybe it 's because she has the most substantial female role in any of Stone 's films to date — or maybe it 's because her character suffered the saddest fate in the backsweep of Jim Morrison 's downfall . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's because she has the evidence that it really happened , ’ Stevie explained to Patrick . |
| 27 | ‘ They say that Birmingham is a sleeping giant and it is but it needs a massive injection of money . |
| 28 | It is that everybody understands the idea of having diarrhoea and it is not pleasant , but you do not die from it . |
| 29 | Now , it is that they have no need to do anything so rash . |
| 30 | This objection helps to reveal why it is that we regard a hierarchical classification as natural . |