Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that long it 's like that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is in this area of human relations we have most to study and most to learn . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is like that in many lives ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was at that same party that Marevna , who stayed until dawn , saw Modigliani and Beatrice fighting ferociously until Modi grabbed her and flung her through a closed window . |
| 10 | perhaps it was at this time that a clerk associated with the rebel Poitevins produced a document designed to show that Henry and Eleanor were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and their marriage therefore invalid . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was after all impossibly naive and idealistic to expect that frontiers would cease to be watched , but just what price are we paying for the security effected by border controls ? |
| 12 | So it is to most fish 's advantage to grow to their maximum size as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned . |
| 14 | So it is with many gases . |
| 15 | ‘ Red ’ is a subjective mind experience , not an outward experience , and so it is with all sensory experience . |
| 16 | Skilled reading depends upon a flexibility in the application of component subskills , and so it is with all skills . |
| 17 | During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period . |
| 18 | So it is with some surprise that the soft left has found itself endorsing Byrne 's view of the conduct of those around him . |
| 19 | Yeah I think it it 's it 's been coming on a sort of er you know we we we tour here twice a year every year and we release an album every year at this time and a video , so it 's for all the people who like that type of music they know it 's going to be there and they come out to see us all the time you know and er as you say it goes on and on but lucky enough there is an awful lot of material for us to do and you know there should n't be any problem . |
| 20 | So it 's like that again , is it ? |
| 21 | So it 's like that without , I mean , with Carla , I mean , you ca n't you know , you just ca n't think when you 've got ta I mean she would have been bored and she would n't have looked at the gifts . |
| 22 | And so it was for Former Labour Leader Michael Foot and front bench spokesmen , Chris Smith and Donald Dewar as they slugged it out with John Patten and Peter Lilley . |
| 23 | So it was on that fog-bound , lonely London road . |
| 24 | So it was with many others , selling implements , rope and all the other necessities needed by the farming community . |
| 25 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 26 | So it was with some hope that I travelled to Scotland . |
| 27 | So it was with some trepidation that I put forward the idea of his leaping back into the West End , twenty years after he 'd gratefully left it . |
| 28 | And so it was into all of this that Boy made his entrance . |
| 29 | So it was in this instance ; that is to say , my receiving the letter from Miss Kenton , containing as it did , along with its long , rather unrevealing passages , an unmistakable nostalgia for Darlington Hall , and — I am quite sure of this — distinct hints of her desire to return here , obliged me to see my staff plan afresh . |
| 30 | So it was like that . |