Example sentences of "[noun] it be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many centuries it was primarily through cathedral and church choirs that formal education was available to boys . |
| 2 | Well , it 's it 's not exactly football it 's just like a tragic downful slide , is n't it . |
| 3 | In her present state of mind it was almost beyond her capabilities to concentrate on practical matters . |
| 4 | When this is given as written practice it is usually between 250 and 3,000 words in prose on a given subject . |
| 5 | expected over the next four months it 's nevertheless from a reasonably high level because it 's done well so far erm and I would n't want to over stress the sense in which Wales is perhaps not doing as well as the others . |
| 6 | For Ruth it was almost as if he died before her eyes . |
| 7 | In the case of orthography it is only in comparatively recent times that spelling has been standardised into ‘ correct ’ forms , it being , in former centuries , very much at the whim of the writer as to how a word was spelt , and it was not unusual for several styles — ‘ king ’ , ‘ kyng ’ , ‘ kynge ’ are examples — to be used in the same document , or even sentence . |
| 8 | Even where informants invoked the ‘ rule ’ of parallel cousin marriage it was mostly as a ‘ second order strategy ’ . |
| 9 | ( What a wonder it is today in atheist Moscow to watch the people as a funeral passes by . |
| 10 | When farmers and farm workers refer to the ‘ loss of community ’ in their village it is usually to this kind of change that they are implicitly referring , for there are bound to be changing patterns of sociability developing in the village to which they are unaccustomed or from which they feel excluded . |
| 11 | When the agricultural population complains of a loss of community in the English village it is usually to this loss of an enclosed , socially self-sufficient occupational community that they refer . |
| 12 | And whatever the weather was like outside , inside the mill it was always like a hot swamp . |
| 13 | There 's so many folk it 's more like a party . |
| 14 | So if you begin catching barbel in the 4lb or larger bracket it is well worth sticking it out until they move on or you have caught most of them . |
| 15 | If those winters caused me any anxiety it was only in the nets where Graham and I , as the two overseas professionals in a team of mainly part-timers with jobs to do in midweek , spent a lot of time practising together . |
| 16 | For Pete it was almost like being a teenager again , going to see 2001 on magic mushrooms . |
| 17 | Guy lives on the sixth floor in let me see , it 's on the it 's if , if you 're going along the corridor it 's just past the final year notice boards , it does have a number , I 've forgotten which one it is but it 's on the right hand side . |
| 18 | For the whole sector it is much in line with the overall growth of GDP , but it is noteworthy that between 1951 and 1964 insurance , and banking and finance grew by nearly 50 per cent faster than GDP and between 1964 and 1973 by just over 90 per cent [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 19 | You know very often a parent , if a parent senses a child it 's partly in the interests of reality you know , like I say to my younger son you know , look if I buy you a third Big Mac , let's face it , you wo n't be able to eat it . |
| 20 | if you were having a girl it was mostly in the front , but er that was n't true really |
| 21 | Under such circumstances it is thoroughly in line with the teaching of the New Testament to ascribe such leanings among non-Christians to the agency of the Holy Spirit . |
| 22 | " If you do not have an existing service agreement with Olympus it is certainly worth looking at the options available — whatever type of instrument is in use . " |
| 23 | At this moment it 's either in Heathrow or Bahrain . |
| 24 | Later , later , she would tell him — of the embassy , Papa and J.D. — but for the moment it was enough for her to be the wounded girl whom he had healed . |
| 25 | It had appeared , it would move on , but for this moment it was there for her — almost as if it had waited for her to be alone . |
| 26 | Against Oldham it was more like the form of the Man City game again . |
| 27 | It 's always there to answer the phone and the number is easy to find — these days it 's even in Thomson 's Local Directories . |
| 28 | These days it 's hardly worth a mention . |
| 29 | He 'd send us all whisky at Christmas if it was worth his while , only these days it 's hardly worth the risk . ’ |
| 30 | House procedures used once to be compared by class-conscious critics to a public school debating chamber ; these days it was more like break-time in a comprehensive . |