Example sentences of "[det] [conj] it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you could go in and say , ‘ Listen , , can I suggest two or three aspects of this that it 's worth covering ? |
| 2 | It is easier for us to do this than it is for the English or Americans . ’ |
| 3 | Did erm , have you seen this and it 's for when you eh , eh change your week ending . |
| 4 | She looked right at O and Boy when she said this and it was as if she was trying to scare them in particular , even as if she was trying to frighten them away from each other , as if she was saying , to them , and to all of us , this is what you have to go through , right ? |
| 5 | But Israel resisted this until it was in a much stronger position by concluding one with Egypt in February 1949 . |
| 6 | However , Tamburlaine is also like this because it is in his nature , and so when these two clash , one of them is going to suffer . |
| 7 | He said he was going to fight this because it was in direct conflict to Government policy . |
| 8 | I do this because it was in the period of the church fathers that what was to become orthodox Christology was worked out . |
| 9 | Preston half understood this because it was in him , too , but he rejected it , also , because it scared him too much . |
| 10 | If it is in isostatic equilibrium one section of lithosphere will stand higher than another because it is of lower density ( the crustal density or Pratt model ) , of the same density but thicker ( the crustal thickness or Airy model ) , or through a combination of both a lower density and greater thickness ( Fig. 2.9 ) . |
| 11 | And then it 's not spelt the same way as this when it 's on a boat |
| 12 | The frailty of human memory is such that it is by no means uncommon for a delegate to criticize fiercely the very rule for which he himself was responsible a year or two before ! |
| 13 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 14 | But like , Scott was going to me he was going to me , oh stop complaining or I 'll give you one your tit , like and I goes well I would n't mind so much if it was on my , I wear a bra all the time |
| 15 | But in practice , modern Earthly life is a protege of water , as much as it is of carbon . |
| 16 | Uncertainty is the enemy of marketers as much as it is of City markets . |
| 17 | Total quality is a developing concept , but it is applicable to the education business just as much as it is to any other business . |
| 18 | Building self-esteem is about appreciating strengths and developing them as much as it is about gaining an understanding of weaknesses . |
| 19 | This matters because recent discussion shows Weber 's conception of class ( Wright , 1985 ) to be determined by production just as much as it is by Marx , but that Weber is concerned with consequences in terms of market exchanges , whereas Marx focuses on exploitation . |
| 20 | Education is important in enabling rural people to organise and plan , as much as it is in ensuring that the urban majority understand the nature of rural problems and lend their support to solving them . |
| 21 | Because of the stress that such feelings may cause , their physical health is at risk just as much as it is in the case of the busy executive trying to cram 200 hours-worth of activity into those 168 . |
| 22 | Enthusiasm in other Eastern European parliaments is waning too , but not as much as it is in Poland because Poland 's politics is even more fragmented than that of other countries . |
| 23 | I think it reinforces the case , not so much for retaining the bobby in New Deer , but for increasing policing in country areas where crime is increasing just as much as it is in the towns . ’ |
| 24 | Yet to mere man , Venice stands today on a group of islands at the head of the Adriatic very much as it was at the time of the great Doges . |
| 25 | The passageway here splits into two , one branch leading to the engine sump where a cage lies jammed for ever , the other leading to where a small spiral stairway runs up from a hole in the wall , over the tunnel , to the engine room which , apart from a few acts of vandalism and the ravages of time , is very much as it was on the day it was left . |
| 26 | It is their village now , just as much as it was for the old village families . |
| 27 | In many ways , these additional protocols reinforced the impression that for France the EDC was designed as a guarantee for itself against possible German aggression as much as it was to be an anti-Soviet organisation . |
| 28 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 29 | She was lucky , she realised , that her financial situation remained much as it was in Donald 's life time . |
| 30 | The South-East has increased its pre-eminence in both absolute numbers and share of the national population but generally the regional batting order remains much as it was in the days of W. G. Grace . |