Example sentences of "it be an [noun] [Wh det] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's an emphasis which is not endorsed by many of my colleagues and you 'd better bear that in mind . |
| 2 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
| 3 | So I do think it 's an industry which is very dangerous now and which could well get out of hand . |
| 4 | It is an attitude which is known among adults too . |
| 5 | The alienation of groups among the younger voters has perhaps received too much publicity but it is an attitude which is shared to some degree by other sections of the community . |
| 6 | It is an approach which is developed at some length by Professor Ronald H. Preston . |
| 7 | It is this belief that I am trying to express , for it is an art which is applicable to any enterprise of any size in any area of life 's activities . |
| 8 | It is an assumption which is open to the charge of reification since many people would argue that only individuals can be creative . |
| 9 | But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others . |
| 10 | The motivation issue is not an easy one to discuss , since it is an item which is seldom adequately defined . |
| 11 | But nevertheless it is an application which is necessary , British Coal at the end of the day would have been delighted not to make it after all . |
| 12 | It was an experience which was to alter his life . |
| 13 | It was an art which was understood to transcend nature through the adherence to the ideal and was praised by influential theoreticians such as Quatremere de Quincy . |
| 14 | It was an issue which was never absent : it marred his day of consecration , and it was the subject of his last letter . |
| 15 | It was an exercise which was fraught with difficulty . |
| 16 | It was an observation which was to emerge again among the germinating ideas and jottings of Darwin 's first notebook on The Transmutation of Species . |
| 17 | However , it was an area which was less familiar than the systems presently operated north and south of the border at present . |