Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it 's all thorns , she comes to a full stop , caught and blind in a thicket of thorns like Abraham 's sacrificial ram . |
| 2 | Women still , on the whole , have to achieve more than men to get to the same level in certain ways , but I think basically it 's this question of choice . |
| 3 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
| 4 | Perhaps it 's that bloke who locked the gates in Gibraltar so they could n't get into Spain . |
| 5 | ‘ Or perhaps it 's this city , ’ he says . |
| 6 | But perhaps it 's some quirk in your nature , and you actually get a kick out of despising the women you get involved with ! ’ |
| 7 | Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds . |
| 8 | Perhaps it is this sense of impotence — and the sense that English 's image of ‘ effeminacy ’ or ‘ femininity ’ makes it appear unimportant-that has led postwar literary theoretical movements to espouse ideals of ‘ objectivity ’ and ‘ scientificity ’ . |
| 9 | Perhaps it is this point of political reassessment ; perhaps it is because I am mid-way through my life — the time when the past stretches widespread enough to contemplate , and the future is no longer infinite — which makes me want to catch memories . |
| 10 | Or perhaps it was that recollection , however poignant , was better than emptiness . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was that paradox — more than any other aspect of its nature — which would finally undo it . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps it was that bump we went over , ’ said Bob hesitantly . |
| 13 | Who was attacking it ? perhaps it was that letter from that bastard up in town . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps it was this bloke Kennedy she was supposed to be meeting . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was this climate of hysteria and sanctified greed that broke the moral fibre of a mild-mannered English instructor at Columbia University called Charles Van Doren . |
| 16 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was this atmosphere , coupled with Max Jacob 's fierce Catholicism , that led Modigliani to seek out his roots . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was more evidence of a Celtic past . |
| 20 | So it is another road movie , with a Kerouac-style character , depicting a man who had ‘ auspicious beginnings ’ — a line he wrote himself — searching for fulfilment and running into some harsh realities of life . |
| 21 | We we tried to do as much as we could we drove from erm Colorado right the way round California up through Utah and stuff and so it is some parts of the desert are very boring . |
| 22 | So it 's many inputs to one answer . |
| 23 | So it 's all bullshit . |
| 24 | So it 's all part of his warderishness . |
| 25 | So it 's all part of the same sentence that makes it come into the head at that point . |
| 26 | So it 's all part of this , but this training session , this is when the management and the senior associates within your branch give up their own time , to develop your business for you . |
| 27 | The reason for that I understand is that erm the sort of former universities , it 's something to do with the superannuation scheme quite separate so it 's all sort of based on their superannuation schemes . |
| 28 | But she did n't get she got ill treated and that and he did n't the erm boy did n't feed him properly so it 's all sort of skin and bone so we went and brought his pony and erm , we sort of fed it up and got it going again . |
| 29 | Right okay so it 's that times |
| 30 | So it 's that lack of security , lack of confidence about the future , and they need to be ins assured that there is , hopefully , a light at the end of the tunnel . |