Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ross MacKay , director of the Institute of Economic Research at the University College of North Wales , Bangor , told the North Wales 2000 Prospects and Opportunities conference in Llangollen that it was much too early for the Government to consider scrapping regional aid to Clwyd and Gwynedd in favour of the South East of England . |
| 2 | Dennis is next with afternoon special , it 's Tuesday so it 's where are you now ? |
| 3 | Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , said on Friday that it was now time to change ‘ the tone and mood of Scottish politics ’ and added : ‘ I have always accepted that a referendum could be an appropriate mechanism for sounding out opinion , particularly on constitutional issues . ’ |
| 4 | Not very much is known about Lloyds so it 's somewhat more mystical than an ordinary club . |
| 5 | ‘ The letter is personally addressed to Gerry Adams so it is up to him to reply to it , but the party 's position is that it highlights the MPs ' total lack of understanding about the situation here and our position in it , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I assured Aunt Lavvy that it was so , and that I could never coerce an unwilling female . |
| 7 | Christopher Trickie and his Wife … told Mogg that the French people had taken the plan of their House , and that They had also taken the plan of all the places round that part of the Country , that a Brook runs in the front of Trickie 's House and the French people inquired of Trickie wether the Brook was Navigable to the Sea , and upon being informed by Trickie that It was not , they were afterwards seen examining the Brook quite down to the Sea . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't be at Arsenal if it was n't for him . |
| 9 | We do n't want to accrue er interest even if it 's being expenses by B-Sky-B if it 's not going to actually be paid for many years , but to the extent that it 's er likely to turn into cash in the relatively near future , then I think we would erm think it 's now time to start addressing that issue and the result would be that we should probably erm accrue some reasonable and not very substantial amount of back-interest er in the current financial year . |
| 10 | The other argument is , of course , would anyone ever have heard of David if it was n't for Tony ? |
| 11 | judgement was in favour of Aston Villa and it was not until fifty years later that a fresh legal challenge over contract terms was made , by George Eastham against Newcastle United . |
| 12 | The river authorities contacted the lock-keeper at Iffley and it was there that Dennis 's body was eventually recovered later that evening . |
| 13 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the potential causes of instability , but that was not the subject of our discussion last Friday and it was not discussed other than in the margins of the meeting . |
| 14 | Right now the best are Arsenal and it 's just a pity they 're not in one of the European competitions , because my money will have been on them to win it . |
| 15 | In power , it never occurred to him , just as it did not occur to Mr Gorbachev until it was too late , that it was the system itself that was rotten through and through . |
| 16 | I did a job for Penumbra and it 's over . |
| 17 | His eyes never left Lamarr Dean , but his right hand closed on the Spencer and it was down at his side as he walked over the few steps to the bar . |
| 18 | EASTER weekend is one of the busiest days of the year in such job-starved places as St Ives , Newquay and Falmouth and it is hardly any quieter in Blackpool , Southport and Morecambe . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 20 | Hawaii was of the United States but it was not in it . |
| 21 | They intended to canoe the three miles to Charmouth but it was up to four hours after they were due to arrive that a huge rescue operation was mounted . |
| 22 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 23 | In some ways it was worse than Saturday because it was then we realised all hope had gone . ’ |
| 24 | The abuse of Artemesia has continued till today because as recently as 1977 many of her paintings including Suzannah and the Elders had been attributed to her father ( a painter who was a close friend of Caravaggio since it was not uncommon for a male member of the family or tutor to take credit for any talent shown by a woman under their ’ guidance ’ . |
| 25 | Er facilities er exist for parking and so on and the only thing is , er I 'm talking about catering in the sense of a Saturday whether it 's here or there . |
| 26 | Desktop Sunergy Classics will run a 50MHz Tsunami ( or MicroSparc as it is officially known ( UX No 406 ) ) , and are rated at 22.6 SPECint(92) , 17.4 SPECfp(92) and around 14 MFLOPS . |
| 27 | The one certainty , however , that confronted the Cabinet committee was demographic : if you left SERPS as it was then the eventual bill would become greater and greater as the proportion of contributors to pensioners declined . |
| 28 | A great deal could be written on the contrast between Chaucer and Gower reflected here : one might note , for instance , that incest plays a relatively small part in the tale of Appollonius , and that it is hardly condoned in the Canace and Machaire story of Gower although it is romantically treated in a tragic and sympathetic manner . |
| 29 | She began , Dear Sis , Tell Joel that it 's quite an education in itself for the girls to be brought up in the heart of the capital , and on the very shores of London 's historic river . |
| 30 | This studio replica of a painting in Cambridge , Mass. , which fooled no-one , is illustrated in Spinosa 's introductory essay as by Ribera although it is not in the catalogue proper . |