Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been the right advice — Colonel Windsor knew it was — and Tubby had promised to take it . |
| 2 | Lord Justice McCowan said it was impossible to hold that the Home Secretary 's political judgment was one that no reasonable Home Secretary could hold . |
| 3 | PC World chairman Jan Murray reckons it was only a matter of time before PCs lost their premium product status and started being treated like any other commodity item . |
| 4 | Colin Jelf says it was difficult at first but when he 'd passed his brother it was relativelty straightforward . |
| 5 | Lord Justice Balcombe said it was unlikely that a pending court application by the mother , who is divorced from the children 's father , for access to her children would succeed . |
| 6 | Dr Roger Pertwee claims it is only a matter of time before marijuana moves from being regarded as a drug of abuse to a substance which can be used positively . |
| 7 | Liberal Democrat Ken Walker said it was important for the council 's policy to be reviewed to take account of changes in South Africa . |
| 8 | Sue Wright says it is a very hard life . |
| 9 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |
| 10 | Mrs. Bethell said it was up to the youth committee to decide what they wanted . |
| 11 | Jean Robinson said it was unfair to advertise unless there really was a post available because people would waste time and energy applying for something that did n't exist . |
| 12 | Ken Croswell says it is time for a little post-Copernican thinking |
| 13 | Downing Street insisted it was simply due to ‘ pressure of work ’ but admitted he was to hold crisis talks on the economy and spending cuts . |
| 14 | Downing Street insisted it was confident the two leaders will achieve a rapport and put that at the top of its agenda . |
| 15 | The former Liberal leader Mr David Steel said it was normal for MPs to support their party spokesman by coming into the chamber during his speech . |
| 16 | Health officer David Owen said it was a delicate subject and that one pet shop near the town hall sold seed for people to feed the birds . |
| 17 | Long before Neil Kinnock let it be known that he had let his membership of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament lapse , the Labour Party and CND had been growing apart . |
| 18 | He has some very harsh words for the Japanese about their ban on Frankie Detory saying it 's shortsighted and harsh in the extreme and we 'll all say yes to that . |
| 19 | With the situation now rapidly approaching a critical point , on April 13th. , Richard Baxter decided it was his duty to go to London and throw the weight of his own influence behind moves for the restoration of Charles II to the throne of England . |
| 20 | The Mother Superior knew it was time to end this interview , so now she stood up , saying , ‘ Well , Mrs Winkowski , I 'm sure you can leave your charge with us with an easy mind . |
| 21 | Vet , Neil Forbes says it was the worse case of starvation he 's ever seen . |
| 22 | Jean Norrie said it was ‘ just terrible ’ explaining that her son does n't drink and is a ‘ very timid lad who does n't keep at all well ’ . |
| 23 | COHSE leader Hector MacKenzie said it was ‘ a scandalous misuse of funds — instead of staff at the bedside , we have managers in offices . ’ |
| 24 | Doubtless Beatrix Potter felt it was a neater finish to the story than a vasectomy . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Mother Francis said it was sort of serious , my own place , my inheritance she calls it . |
| 26 | But Mother Francis supposed it was only natural . |
| 27 | Anti-terrorist squad chief Commander David Tucker said it was a miracle there were not far more casualties and dismissed the warnings to LBC Radio and a travel agent as ridiculous . |
| 28 | Sir Richard Sutton said it was the biggest meet the Cottesmore had seen that year . |
| 29 | Yet the contrast that presented itself to me as Edward Thomas described it was dramatic : down in the valley less than half a mile away was a modern colliery with all the latest gadgetry of modern technology , while the hill farmers ( at least some of them ) were still in the Middle Ages — even earlier , as far as their material culture was concerned . |
| 30 | Miss McIntosh said it was also essential contractors dredging local channels used the retrieved aggregate on Essex sea walls rather than transport it to coasts elsewhere in the EC . |