Example sentences of "it [be] [conj] [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in the case of the universe , could it be that we are living in a region that just happens by chance to be smooth and uniform ? |
| 2 | Could it be that they are discriminating unfairly against a gipsy family ? |
| 3 | ‘ What else can it be when you 're covered from head to toe in foul little pustules ? ’ |
| 4 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 5 | I mean er it 's before they 're conceived that you 've got to try |
| 6 | It 's that we 're struggling on . |
| 7 | Well plus plus the fact that erm it 's not that you have n't got one , or it 's not that we 'd need you to drive it 's that you 're denying us the privilege of being able to send you . |
| 8 | Now it 's like they 're saying the party 's finished . |
| 9 | It 's like it 's flashing in my head . |
| 10 | Some days , it 's too misty and it 's like it 's vanished altogether . |
| 11 | It 's like he 's squinting down the sights of a rifle at me . |
| 12 | Mrs Peel , however , saw things differently , saying of the head , ‘ She seemed to be assessing me rather than John … it 's like she 's shifting the blame on to me … she used to speak to me like I was a really bad mother . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's like she 's laughing at us . ’ |
| 14 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 15 | It 's cos you 're travelling in a Metro . |
| 16 | Sorry , it 's cos I 'm turning this . |
| 17 | Well it was something that you hear a lot about it and er I 've never done anything about it and it 's cos I 'm starting to think towards the future and it 's gon na be nice to know that I 'm gon na have a pound or two to go and do what I want when I retire . |
| 18 | No I do n't think it 's that , I think it 's cos it 's getting near the end of the tape . |
| 19 | It 's cos he 's working for him at the moment money . |
| 20 | Not because he did n't love her any more , it 's cos he 's having this fling with this Diane . |
| 21 | No okay because it 's as I was saying usually between sort of round about the middle of the day there 's people knocking on the door all the time so if you can sort of get sort of earlier or later it 's we 're likely to have a y'know half an hour when I can show you to do S P S S on it . |
| 22 | and it 's if they 're taxing on the border |
| 23 | It just means that he 's — a lot of his time is taken up doing stats and it 's if he 's doing that he 's not doing something else . |
| 24 | Not just chip papers and er newspaper type litter what we normally see , it 's if you 're living on the top flat and you have a new settee , how what do you do with that settee ? |
| 25 | So in the two things that can happen in conversation to give it To make it stop running smoothly are overlapping and interruption and like some of them are quite difficult to tell apart but usually it 's If you 're transcribing stuff it 's fairly obvious . |
| 26 | So it 's if it 's coming up |
| 27 | But to get why when er why we want to pay your commission and er it it 's because we are looking for three pieces of paper |
| 28 | It 's because we 're investing a lot of capital expenditure to put right some years of neglect I might say . |
| 29 | Perhaps you think it 's because we 're saddled with a corrupt and inefficient police force directed by politically biased career judges lacking any practical training whatsoever . |
| 30 | It 's because they 're caught up in a system which keeps blacks in positions where they have to play only secondary roles to whites . |