Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Sometimes it may be a price you 're prepared to pay . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's ironic that it should be a colleague who caused the wound , because I have now toured New Zealand three times and watched their style of rucking . |
| 3 | It must be a song what . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ they state , ‘ it must be a threat which a person of the age and with the other characteristics of the woman could not reasonably be expected , in the circumstances , to resist . ’ |
| 5 | It must be a blackbird she could hear in the pear tree . |
| 6 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 7 | ‘ If there is to be talk of a pool of ability , it must be a pool which surpasses the widow 's cruse in the Old Testament , in that when more is taken for higher education in one generation more will tend to be available in the next . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It must be a virus I picked up somewhere . ’ |
| 9 | I suppose it could be a burglar who was surprised on the job ? ’ |
| 10 | He says it could be a person who 's removing animal parts to make up a potion . |
| 11 | It could be a roadmaker who has to fill a depression in order to continue with the road . |
| 12 | You see now if anything happened er it could be a provost who 'd the district who has n't anything to do with the Galashiels you see , the next one in every probability . |
| 13 | But she also said it 'd be a nation which did not need a manufacturing industry , nor an industrial base . |
| 14 | Well I think it would be a change it 's when they 're when they 're when they 're jacket would be wet they would have another |
| 15 | And if I can , then it would be a lever you could hand to him . ’ |
| 16 | Eleven , you 've got four hundred pound , you got so it 's a good second hand one or a cheapy no , well it would be a cheapy I told him most of them around about seven hundred and ninety nine |
| 17 | He did n't believe she had a sister , and if he thought she was involved with Garry it would be a barrier he would hesitate to breach . |
| 18 | " It would be a war nobody wants , nobody intends , and nobody would win , " he said that night . |
| 19 | It will be a day which will be inevitably based on fun on fellowship and on benefiting others . |
| 20 | For it will be a whelp you carry , a small , red-furred beast with sharp teeth and sharper claws that will grow up a bear , a fox , who knows ? |
| 21 | ‘ It will be a place he can call his own but it will be in a block with a single entrance point and a resident warder , ’ |
| 22 | Er , it can be a sport it can be some sort of activity , it could be going to evening classes , learning something . |
| 23 | It can be a book which formerly belonged to some famous person , preferably with some fair indication of that ownership , perhaps his signature and , much better , marginal notes and comments . |
| 24 | In spite of the limitations of speechreading , it can be a bridge which , used with listening tactics , is the deciding factor in participation in the ordinary community . |