Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then with a sigh , ‘ Perhaps it 's for the best . |
| 32 | ‘ Perhaps it 's in case we have some ordinary visitors , ’ said Maud . |
| 33 | ‘ As I say , it went to Canon Wheeler or perhaps it 's in his house , amongst his effects . ’ |
| 34 | Well perhaps it 's in the I should have one of my cake should n't I ? |
| 35 | Or perhaps it 's in brawls and means . |
| 36 | You ca n't know how many people would understand you , or who these people would be , what they would do , perhaps it 's like what you said earlier , none of your business . |
| 37 | But perhaps it 's like , if you 've never tasted a mango , you wo n't miss it either . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ Perhaps it 's like the glass slipper in Cinderella … ’ |
| 39 | Can I just say colleagues before you , you second the motion , there is this hubbub again that 's growing , I mean it seems to go down and I do n't know perhaps it 's like the tide but can we try and keep it a bit lower , especially when colleagues are trying to make a speech from the rostrum . |
| 40 | The dead are impersonal , and so perhaps it is of no especial moment that they should be disturbed — or so I might once have argued on Victor 's behalf . |
| 41 | Perhaps it is for that reason that Britain will find greater interest in discussing the problems of the former Soviet Union and in establishing the rouble stabilisation fund — even though it will mean us pledging about $600m to help keep the Reds out of the red . |
| 42 | Perhaps it is for this reason that , in Braudel 's work at least , it is much more generously defined to include various stable but non-material factors . |
| 43 | He 's Well I think she 's pretty silly to come and sit out there in the rain and disturb the I suppose it it perhaps it is under cover I suppose . |
| 44 | ‘ Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’ |
| 45 | Perhaps it is beyond their intellectual grasp ; or maybe the language it is couched in is too complex . |
| 46 | Perhaps it is worth remembering that most steam trains on the mainline need support from modern forms of traction . |
| 47 | Perhaps it is worth noting that the old miners make 110 reference to any . |
| 48 | Perhaps it is worth reminding ourselves what this Bill does . |
| 49 | Perhaps it is from one of mine . |
| 50 | Perhaps it is in this context that Evangelicals and Catholics have to look afresh at the troublesome problem of speaking of the sacrament as a ‘ sacrifice ’ . |
| 51 | Perhaps it is in this area of human relations we have most to study and most to learn . |
| 52 | ‘ Perhaps it is in America . |
| 53 | Perhaps it is in you . |
| 54 | Perhaps it is in the dark girl who looks like your dead wife . |
| 55 | Perhaps it is like that in many lives ? |
| 56 | But you know perhaps it is like shopping . |
| 57 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 58 | I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me . |
| 59 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
| 60 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |