Example sentences of "[conj] it be [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next .
2 Will he also introduce training schemes to put the United Kingdom back where it was before we had a Tory Government and to take it out of this recession ?
3 She had n't mentioned where it was but she had spoken of it with love .
4 where it was but I came across somewhere where there was a freephone and people at a g on a given sort of in a given week could all just go and use this freephone number , and ring up and they 'd hear a tape recording .
5 She asked him to hold the screen just where it was and she went round the back of it , out of his sight .
6 But it 's no good starting from scratch the night before , or it is but I mean you 'll you 'll suffer for it .
7 except it 's as you find it , rather than being produced artificially .
8 the Health Service is deteriorating so bad , and they said no not so much that it 's that they 're not , they 've got enough staff but they 're not being managed correctly
9 told me that it 's that it 's Sacred Heart .
10 And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs
11 We hope you have enjoyed browsing through this brochure , and that it 's provided you with a little inspiration .
12 ‘ I imagine , Professor Summerfield , ’ his voice floated back to them , ‘ that it 's because we are under surveillance , and in any case we can only go in one direction — oh . ’
13 I suppose I should say that it 's because it would be best for her but of course it is n't , it 's because it would be best for me .
14 No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it .
15 But now I begin to see that it 's because I do n't know what love is .
16 The complaint is really a litany of er a whole host of the old grievances there that we have heard several times er before and we will be dealing with the matter in the proper place through our U S council in the U S courts , in terms of er suggestions that it is that it surrounds the question er of monopoly we certainly er do not accept that thirty eight percent of slots at Heathrow in any way constitutes a monopoly it certainly does not .
17 Now I understand that it is because we were n't part of the system .
18 The Church of Scotland audio-visual team filmed an interview with me about our methods , and too late I realised they were making a film about ‘ groups ’ , whereas I maintain that it is because we are not a group that we succeed .
19 He feels that it is because he has a high ethical and moral standard in his approach to sacred sites that he has earned their trust over the years .
20 The hon. Lady persists — I do not think that it is because she does not understand — in making the bogus comparison between in-patient and out-patient waits now and in 1979 .
21 And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message .
22 Lawyer A checked in his books , but said that it was as he had feared ‘ You are either insured or you are not .
23 Ironically , the Great War would not have been the war that it was if it were not for the machine .
24 Erm , I understand that erm somebody from the unit has had talked to your group before , but it 's just as well to come and talk to you again because we 've changed the Local Government Unit , not the same erm , unit that it was when we were first introduced , we 've grown basically .
25 Experience had taught him that it was when you stopped to catch your breath that things caught you .
26 He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with .
27 I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit .
28 It may be that it was because he was so secure in East Anglia that Offa was subsequently able to involve himself so much more forcefully in the south-east .
29 Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him .
30 If , nevertheless , it is accurate , and Eadric was known as someone unwilling to oppose the Scandinavians , one can speculate that it was because he profited from the raising of tribute by acquiring the lands of defaulters .
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