Example sentences of "it be [adv] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this is a good word because it well it 's not because of the associations but it stresses the femininity and that 's what a lot of the sixties feminists lost , I think was their own femininity because they saw it as man 's imposition |
| 2 | It 's not because of the explosion : it 's not delayed shock , or anything like that . |
| 3 | Whether we avoid certain foods because God has told us to , or whether it 's simply because of the E numbers ; whether our purification rituals are there to chase out demons in the name of spiritual purity , or germs in the name of hygiene … we all have a sense that beyond the boundaries of our lives lurks Chaos . |
| 4 | because there 's no job opportunities over here , it 's a lovely country but it 's simply because of the work factor . |
| 5 | It 's just that at the time it all seemed so beautiful and important , it was like some kind of historical event . |
| 6 | No , I did n't mean that , it 's just that on the telly you look so … so … ’ |
| 7 | Or is it because there 's a different culture in the north and south because the , the two parts of China are very different , so you do n't know whether it 's the Communist Party that 's determining this difference or whether it 's just because of a difference of culture there . |
| 8 | No I 've only just put the , it 's just cos of the microphone 's on too much er I 've only just put the batteries in , some new batteries in . |
| 9 | You have to keep the City informed about what 's going on , but I think you can run a business — and I hope we do — to the highest moral standards whether it 's today or in the 1900s . |
| 10 | It 's worth noting , colleagues , that it 's only because of the determination of our members to ensure that their already meagre standard of living and basic rates are not further eroded that even this small achievement has been possible . |
| 11 | ‘ But we know it 's there because of the Principle ? ’ |
| 12 | It looks great when it 's down or in a simple self-knotted style . |
| 13 | It is not that on the borders of logic there is a loose form called argument from analogy , but that all thinking starts from a spontaneous discrimination of the like and the unlike , and tendency to group the similar in categories and expect similar consequences from similar conditions . |
| 14 | It is not because of the poor 's isolation from the modern sector that they remain poor , but because they provide a cheap human resource for that sector . |
| 15 | It is right that in the negotiations , which must remain confidential , they should seek to prevent us from going too far too soon . |
| 16 | It is largely because of the work of the Popular Church that campesina women have not been excluded from rural trade unions but encouraged to participate . |
| 17 | It is partly because of the ease with which getting your ideas onto paper has been made so simple by the PC and word processor that extra care now has to accompany the typing of every paragraph . |
| 18 | Indeed it is ironic that the weaker regions of a country tend to " catch-up " most in times of expansion , and yet it is partly because of the regional differences that inflationary pressures emerge and induce policies which prevent further gains . |
| 19 | What the movies taught Welford Beaton was ‘ we are not interested in average things , whether animate or inanimate — we are interested in anything in the degree that it is above or below the average ’ . |
| 20 | However , the colonial administrators were wrong in their particular approach to the problem and it is here and in the reaction of the Africans to colonial attitudes that we can find reasons for failure . |
| 21 | It is partially because of the need to overcome the problems of ocular compatibility that the concept of disposable lenses has found such ready acceptance . |
| 22 | This is partly because of the association between old age and poor housing conditions , but it is primarily because of the association between poor housing conditions and low-income owners . |
| 23 | But it is also because of the geography of growth of the service sector , which has also been very uneven . |
| 24 | This is partly because more is known about him , and because his drawings and those of his younger contemporary John Thorpe [ q.v. ] ( a high proportion of which are survey drawings ) are the only large personal collection from this period that still exist , but it is also because of the distinctive and remarkable character of the houses with which he can be connected . |
| 25 | ‘ Where strikes do occur it is usually because of a serious problem at work . |
| 26 | It is so because of the function of much of its economic activity within the economy as a whole . |
| 27 | It is perhaps because of an effort to buck the trend towards an insufferable and market-conscious cleverness that we are witnessing an attempt amongst more committed narrators to seek out a way of dealing directly with the emotions , without all the paraphernalia of intrigue and description that has accumulated over the past few years . |
| 28 | It is perhaps because of the unpredictable nature of the outcome that few cases come to court on ultra vires conditions . |
| 29 | The North and the South must sort this one out themselves whether it be peaceably or with the gun . |
| 30 | But we could tell that it was longer because of the extra tape measures it would take to get from one side to the other . ’ |