Example sentences of "[noun sg] it be [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have an opportunity through experience for knowing better than anyone else what is at stake and how much effort it takes , and what a loss it is if you do n't do everything you can to make your partner contented . |
| 2 | Oh all of my stuff has been up in the loft it 's like you say , I mean if they 've been double wrapped and everything and you wash them |
| 3 | Tug had forgotten what day it was until he heard the bells . |
| 4 | But if I overstepped the mark it was because you made the running . ’ |
| 5 | Such a nuisance it is because it 's a condition which makes you tire more easily , leaving you short of energy and breath . |
| 6 | When dey blow a whistle it 's because dey dig de style |
| 7 | If Bloom is every kind of Dubliner it is because it falls to him to transact the unfinished business , to enact it and to get beyond it without dazzling gifts . |
| 8 | If his marriage was in trouble it was because he and Diana had not been given a chance . |
| 9 | Confronted by her misdemeanours , as he ended 28 years in prison , Mr Mandela observed with dignity that if his wife was in trouble it was because he had not been free to take proper care of her . |
| 10 | I du n no but like er say the d a driver 's coming this way , he wants to see how far down the road it is before it 's a blind spot again . |
| 11 | Well members of the jury it is because we 've set the course that acting upon in itself would not have been enough . |
| 12 | The sun is the size it is because it is so hot . |
| 13 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 14 | In part it is because they too have unknowingly taken in the prevailing stereotypes . |
| 15 | Now if we can get a proper public transport system , a properly funded public transport system which will make , you can force people off the roads but you can also force them to persuade the approach with a properly funded er public transport system which is A priced within the peoples pockets and B er you can lead to views that will be er , er will be a great advantage for the area and the fifth terminal at Heathrow could fall par to this structure but if this new structure is n't there and if it is n't part of this adequately funded transport system then there is no point in , in building it was as I said earlier be , be madness . |
| 16 | If Richard Burton was lucky in his background it was because he made his luck . |
| 17 | This is an example of the application of what is known as the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as " We see the universe the way it is because we exist . " |
| 18 | I 'm never gon na , I 'm never gon na learn learn it by concentrating on how I 'm gon na do it , I 'm just gon na have to sing it the way it is because I 'm not gon na learn to do it am I ? |
| 19 | That way it 's though they 'll get close to what they need |
| 20 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |
| 21 | They , they give the impression that the house is the way it was when he lived there , but it 's not quite true , actually , it was earlier on . |
| 22 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 23 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
| 24 | If Louisa had not dreamed badly on her first night at the Lodge it was because she hardly slept at all . |
| 25 | It was n't until erm oh I do n't know what year it was when it was open compete and everybody including professionals |
| 26 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 27 | So what a long time it is since you came , I 've tossed it in the drawer . |
| 28 | If his voice was less steady this time it was because he was cold , not because he was afraid . |
| 29 | ‘ As a matter of fact it was while I was crossing one of the canals on my way back here that I happened to catch sight of you and your friend . |