Example sentences of "[adv] it be [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it was as though they were n't enemies at all , but locked in a passionate , warm embrace . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it is that if we try to take on the identity and authority of the Weaving Mother the consequences will be severe ; our own personal weavings are only part of a much greater pattern , which we can not control or take credit for . |
| 3 | So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ . |
| 4 | So it was that although in those days I was often homesick , missing Harry , missing Daisy , it was never unbearable . |
| 5 | So it was that when I was asked to contribute an account of Elizabeth Taylor 's novels to a book of reference I remembered these words and wrote that her motive power was Love : ‘ Not the love that is a four-letter word , nor yet anything so theoretical as Christian charity , but most certainly a great virtue . ’ |
| 6 | So it was that when the Hundred Years War began , although both the French and the English kingdoms had particular naval objectives which they needed to further for military reasons , neither could be said to have possessed a proper navy . |
| 7 | So it was that when the defendant was arraigned he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and counsel stated in open court that the Crown was prepared to accept that plea . |
| 8 | So I rang you and then Lyn said yeah I 'll get her to call you and then you rang me back so it was as though Lyn had give you the message to call me |
| 9 | And thus it was that when the day shift set off back to the Barracks that evening , Jackie Tiptoe remained behind , suspended from the ceiling like a crooked spider snarled up in its own web . |
| 10 | And all at once it was as though a fire raged between them , scorching their hungry bodies , sending sparks into the air around them . |
| 11 | Instead Rory had found out only when Ken had had his first story published , and now it was as though they were passing each other travelling in opposite directions ; Ken slowly but surely building up a reputation as a children 's story-teller while his own supposed career as a professional recounter of traveller 's tales sank gradually in the west . |
| 12 | She had been almost unnaturally brave for so long , and now it was as though she had been given licence to cry over everything . |
| 13 | Normally there was a background hum of noise , but now it was as though the entire city had come to a standstill , halted and muffled beneath a thick , enveloping blanket of fog . |
| 14 | But today it was as though Doyle and the Woman needed to be together , even though they were not talking . |
| 15 | He 's complaining because I , well it 's as though we run a minute mile . |
| 16 | That 's making it er or well it 's or and is n't it ? |
| 17 | Well it was but whether it 's erm try it again from cold I think . |
| 18 | Sometimes it was as though the risk and the pleasure had grown together , nourishing each other . |
| 19 | What are the names of your children ? ’ ) , or night comes so abruptly it is as though someone has pulled down a blind . |
| 20 | Indeed it was as though she had n't spoken , because his attention appeared to be fully centred upon Doreen . |
| 21 | Yet it is as though some unseen power is switching them on and off . |
| 22 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 23 | He did not move , and yet it was as though he had reached out and touched her , the lick of his gaze like a flame spreading fever throughout every part of her . |
| 24 | and therefore it was when when you would go in there it was quite cool . |