Example sentences of "[noun] it be [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You have served your theme well , and to my mind it is one that both needed and deserved the service . ’
2 What we 're actually doing in terms of the product is we 're actually widening the franchise erm I do n't like to use words going up market that suggests that we 're leaving our core customers behind , we will we will add any product that is complimentary to our core kitchens but er we 'll still be the main stance of the product in these two stores for instance , we 're going to introduce a house wear department it is something that we 've been experimenting with before we 're going to erm use the opportunity to widen the franchise on appliances we 're going to erm use the an experiment on erm floorings to match work tops , those kind of developments just to test to see whether the customer reaction is as good as we hoped it would be so that we can then introduce it in the main chain
3 Losses of soil through erosion vary greatly : under closed forest it may be 2.55 t per ha per annum in Trinidad , less than a tonne in Java or 0.41 in French Guyana , while under secondary forest in Madagascar it was nil , but up to 9 t when cleared and cultivated .
4 She did n't lose , she did n't lose weight it 's something else , and erm , and eh , oh that 's why it was , so a .
5 An entity is a thing of interest in the organisation , in other words it is anything about which we want to hold data .
6 This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books .
7 If it 's not cricket and Frank Woolley it 's something else .
8 In Major League Baseball it is one that comes with Hollywood-sized pay .
9 For someone used to the tiny creatures we get in England it was something of a shock , and I said as much as I leapt into the air .
10 Granting evils in the slave trade and colonial slavery it was none the less argued that government could more easily influence planters and traders through better regulation than they could control the situation on the West African coast .
11 At the moment it 's nothing . ’
12 Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses
13 Now you may think the budget was today 's big story , but for the people of one town it was nothing compared to a row over a much-loved local landmark .
14 Thank goodness it was nothing more serious .
15 Right , as a decimal it 's nought point seven five , and as a fraction ?
16 No it 's not second , it 's erm er Norwood Road it 's summat beginning with a C , is Apton following that or the one after ?
17 coffee shop it was something like
18 Lucille 's home was very grandly called a château , though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm with a crenellated tower to remind passers-by that the building had once been a small fortress .
19 For a world class decathlete it 's something of a gear change .
20 Nearly every organization requires accounts or finance clerks , so if mathematics is your strong point it is something to think about .
21 Every day it was something else .
22 but Mrs the other day it was something like two o'clock , Mrs said to her , she went to lunch one till two Mrs oh have you had your lunch ?
23 Cos that was St Petersberg catholic ladies guild or something and another day it was something like I B M or whatever you know .
24 … When it comes to [ discovering ] pollution it 's one in a thousand that you 'll [ do so ] by sampling — it 's in an officer 's technique … ‘
25 But he would also say as a race it was nothing special : as a race it was ‘ out of all proportion to the fame and fortune ’ and needed ‘ no more ability than any other place ’ .
26 At one time I thought Tatyana may have done it , but now I have evidence it was someone else . ’
27 Finally it was put to the vote , and while I can not recall the actual figures it was something like forty in favour of the UK proposal , about thirty abstentions and just one ( Bulgaria ! ) against .
28 But it is the R N L I it 's something like a huge club because er go where you like , you 're always received well among the fishermen and the shipping people .
29 Said FA spokesman David Bloomfield : ‘ If players are guilty of making gestures it is something we take seriously .
30 You dug up a spadeful of earth , but by the time you threw it on the rampart it was nothing but muddy water .
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