Example sentences of "[pron] it [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 2 | Theodora wondered which it was in this case . |
| 3 | Mind you it were like all wooden compartment . |
| 4 | On the sixth one it was like this sort of year and I was getting into Christmas and that . |
| 5 | When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor . |
| 6 | To most children — and adults — coal is simply coal ; to me it was of many types — ell coal , tourha' , major , five quarter , parrot , main or gypsy . |
| 7 | Why did nobody tell me it was like this ? ’ |
| 8 | what are the con it it 's with some schools are putting in |
| 9 | What they do , they look they look around and they weigh up up pros and cons up , and it it 's like these insurance brokers , they ring all over to buy cheapest insurance for you , well , that 's what Allied Dunbar are doing . |
| 10 | It 's er It it is for that . |
| 11 | Well there 's that I mean there 's all , there 's a whole range of things , there 's ghoulish voyeurism right , I mean that that 's important , there 's also the way the Royals have been peddled by the media over the decades and the fact that you know this has been how they 've been tendered this is what they actually are and that y you , you know what I 'm saying that erm or whatever it is between this is what they are , this is what we 've been and they do n't match , they really do n't match . |
| 12 | We were quick to condemn American Open Champion , Curtis Strange , for voicing his opinion of a spectator , a cameraman — whatever it was during this year 's U.S.P.G.A. Championship . |
| 13 | It could not be what it is without that upon which it depends . |
| 14 | What , what it is on that one you 've got this speaker right and it goes down to really low frequencies especially |
| 15 | ‘ I wonder , sometimes , what it is about that woman that haunts both you and me ? ’ |
| 16 | It is not always clear , though , what it is about some events that leads to severe and prolonged distress . |
| 17 | I do n't know what it is about this study … sort of phoney . |
| 18 | He knew as he could come to me er he used to bring me lock keys of all sorts and er he could get the castings or the patterns or what it is like that and he knows I could fashion them to fit the lock and all that sort of thin and we were very |
| 19 | Yes especially cos you do n't know what it 's for half the bloody time , she does n't know where she is . |
| 20 | What it 's like that ? |
| 21 | I know what it 's like these days — we 're all stretched as far as we can go ’ — he sighed — ‘ but I 've had a little think and I see a way round it for you . |
| 22 | I had n't realised what it was at all , presumably a note . |
| 23 | no actual description of what it was at all . |
| 24 | If we ask what it was about this society which made Pound and also Lewis affront it more or less deliberately , to ensure that its doors were closed to them , I think only one answer is possible : it was ineradicably vowed to the idea of the artist as the amateur . |
| 25 | But , when she suddenly discovered an urgent desire to know his name , she knew that she would only end up feeling foolish if she asked him what it was in this moment of parting . |
| 26 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |
| 27 | I guess he taught me the right way , because after a couple of years , when I heard something , I knew what it was before any intellectual wheels were turning in my head . |