Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have not discussed that with the others yet but perhaps it is something to put on the agenda for the future . |
| 32 | Perhaps it is his nature you know |
| 33 | But then , she thought , perhaps it is none of it true ? |
| 34 | Perhaps it is your childhood days that haunt your imagination and you would like to set a book some twenty , thirty or forty years back . |
| 35 | " Perhaps it is our fault that we keep them so much in idleness ? |
| 36 | Perhaps it is us who have made them what they are ? " |
| 37 | ‘ Perhaps it was him . ’ |
| 38 | Perhaps it was something which he had discovered within the quest . |
| 39 | Perhaps it was something to do with our difference of opinion on the tee , I do n't know — but all through this championship Lee had never asked me to read a putt for him . |
| 40 | Perhaps it was something to do with his not having a son and now having gained one ; or perhaps he was pleased about his victory over the women . |
| 41 | Perhaps it was something in the dowager-duchess 's voice that caused it , but Joan to her own dismay burst into tears . |
| 42 | Perhaps it was nothing more than idle curiosity . |
| 43 | Perhaps it was her . |
| 44 | So , perhaps it was her or and er tend to like her but but I think he , what he says he means . |
| 45 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 46 | She was just thinking dizzily that perhaps it was what she really should do , in order to get Dr Russell out of her system , when Sharon Blackett 's fat file was dumped unceremoniously on top of the rest of the paperwork and she looked up to see the endocrinologist 's painfully disturbing form looming over her . |
| 47 | Perhaps it was her choice of material , or the fact that it was a big theatre . |
| 48 | Perhaps it was her over-active imagination , or maybe she was getting used to that strange bland face and the enormous overhanging whale-like brow , but she felt she saw fear flit across it , momentarily . |
| 49 | I 'd only met her once , so perhaps it was her way of telling me or him or someone else that she was ‘ in the know ’ . |
| 50 | Perhaps it was her husband 's doing . ’ |
| 51 | Perhaps it was her soft , drawling voice or the fact that , no matter how interesting the topic of your conversation , you would inevitably see her smothering amiable yawns as you talked ; you would see the muscles of her jaw tighten and the tears start from her eyes as she tried to repress them . |
| 52 | Perhaps it was her imagination , she thought . |
| 53 | Perhaps it was her artistic temperament — it was impossible to know for certain . |
| 54 | Perhaps it was her own pride reawakening after all these weeks which prompted her to defy Luke 's distaste , albeit only after she was sure he was asleep , moving up close to his back again , lifting an arm and curving it loosely over the side of his body . |
| 55 | Perhaps it was her way of taking revenge . |
| 56 | Perhaps it was their very greatness that made her so — one could n't be noble all the time . |
| 57 | Perhaps it was he who was truly destroying this place . |
| 58 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 59 | Well perhaps it was it was a long I do n't know , but it did and I 'll show you on the video if you want |
| 60 | perhaps it was his glance at Meg Dennison 's ravaged face . |