Example sentences of "[noun sg] it be [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shows what a boost it was having you here . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Within the next eight hours , but the speed it 's travelling it could be sooner . ’ |
| 3 | We 've spent years examining the Bridge systems , but for all the good it 's done us we might have been blowing bubbles . |
| 4 | But for all the bloody good it 's doing it might as well not be there ! ’ |
| 5 | So the finer it is the more time or expense it is to knit it . |
| 6 | ‘ You must be Mr Sachs , what a pleasure it is to meet you at last . ’ |
| 7 | After his marriage it was rumoured he had been involved in a gambling scandal , but his father-in-law stood by him and it was largely through him that de Burgh was created a marquess in the peerage of Ireland in 1825 and Baron Somerhill in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1826 . |
| 8 | a life-form it 's growing it 's spreading . |
| 9 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 10 | The kestrel is our most common falcon , but what a delight it is to see it hunting in a natural habitat rather than at the edge of a motorway . |
| 11 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 12 | As a public relations consultant it is assumed you can write and speak with skill and authority . |
| 13 | In exchange it was promised it would always be paid the interest gross . |
| 14 | It was her breasts , those symbols of nurturance , that first showed signs of cancer , and from the moment it was diagnosed she resigned herself to her fate . |
| 15 | Whose job it is to sort it all out , varies from problem to problem . |
| 16 | Above all , this fear arises in work where the police encounter outsiders whose job it is to make them appear wrong or incompetent — mostly court duty . |
| 17 | Perhaps it is exemplified by the very fact that there is a Microsoft Upgrade Centre in the UK , whose job it is to make it easier for the end user to upgrade to the latest release of any product . |
| 18 | Burroughs employs an agent , whose job it is to keep him abreast of what 's happening in various fields of art and music — he 's 80 years old now and he lives a very secluded life in Kansas . |
| 19 | In the end , said , ‘ it 's all about getting to know the client 's business and having a partner assigned to that client whose job it is to know it and what it does or does not want ’ . |
| 20 | The only members of the hunt dedicated to the actual kill are of course the hounds , the huntsman whose job it is to train them to hunt , possibly a farmer whose stock has been damaged by foxes , and possibly the masters who are interested in controlling the fox population . |
| 21 | Tourists see in British domestic architecture qualities which those whose job it is to protect them often ignore . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most admirable characteristics of the Masai in the eyes of the men whose job it was to administer them were their honesty , directness , and highly developed sense of justice . |
| 23 | The ore mixed with waste to such an extent that it could not be improved by hand was mixed with other low grade stuff and barrowed to the buckers whose job it was to reduce it to walnut size for delivery to Cornish roll-crushers and then to the stamps . |
| 24 | At one juncture it was thought she had died , but gradually she recovered . |
| 25 | What a waste it is to depersonalise it . |
| 26 | Shortly after the commission 's report was made public , Alan Soloman , a computer virus expert , invited hackers , and those whose business it is to keep them out , to a tournament which will test the expertise of both sides . |
| 27 | People can hold on to seven plus or minus two bits of information and the plus or minus two he called the local factors which are you know whether it 's warm out whether you feel warm or cold or whether or what time of day it is have you just had a heavy lunch whatever it might be . |
| 28 | Then very shortly after her birth on New Year 's Day it was realised she had a heart problem . |
| 29 | The response — on the day it was revealed she was the voice on the tape — was as staggering as it was overwhelmingly a vote for the Princess . |
| 30 | One day it was decided we would take our dinner to eat in the nearby Botanical Gardens , and we staggered down there laden with dishes , plates etc. , Mary-Anne hiding under her coat from embarrassment in case she passed anyone she knew ! |