Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] it [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this does n't explain why we should think it is the sort that is invoked in an argument from analogy . |
| 2 | I should think it 's the best way , I ca n't think of anything else . |
| 3 | ‘ If you must know it 's the men in the prison-ships who fire the gun . ’ |
| 4 | I should imagine it 's the shiny one but I do n't . |
| 5 | I must say it was the worst experience of my life , each time I looked over the stable door the most terrible thoughts went through my mind : what if he was lying down ? |
| 6 | She 'll think it 's the food . ’ |
| 7 | Then we 'll know it 's the shell under there , can you ? |
| 8 | i it 's not being done through okay let's seize land , let's redistribute land and then we 'll do it 's the reverse . |
| 9 | Last year was erm , an additional twenty thousand pounds at the last moment , chickenfeed for the big committees , that 's the annoying thing , but what particularly annoys me , and I have to say this , I 'll express it is the knowledge that what can be a phenomenal deprivation to this Committee , goes very , very , very little towards solving the major problems that this county faces , it does n't have a tremendous impact . |
| 10 | I mean the the stuff 's due to come in on Friday , he reckons it 'll get it 's the fourth on Friday is n't it ? |
| 11 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're going to be angry with me and then we 'll agree it was the only way to strike against any possible opposition . |
| 13 | I suppose you might say it 's the real thing . ’ |
| 14 | All Saints ' church stands on a high mound of land in the centre of the village — one might say it is the guardian of all it surveys . |
| 15 | They 'd think it was the Mahdi 's skull all over again . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And , ’ I went on , ‘ I 'd assume it was the person who killed Angela Brickell who wanted to fix the blame for ever on Harry by making him disappear , only … ’ |
| 17 | My family and friends were very supportive throughout the divorce because they could see it was the right thing as we were n't making each other happy . |
| 18 | She could see it was the wrong thing to say and his black brows rose coldly . |
| 19 | Maud and Enid could tell it was the same one because its feet had not yet reappeared . |
| 20 | He said he said we 'd pretend it was the Crown Jewels . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't know how you could say it was the best . |
| 22 | ‘ When Mark Bright was the lone striker he used to say it was the most difficult job around . |
| 23 | She used to say it was the best thing in the house . |
| 24 | In a region of high rolling hills , the wall is like a gigantic roller-coaster extending as far as the eye can see to east and west ; Garvine wrote of the wall that it ‘ is built on such a scale that you would think it was the work of Gods rather than men ’ . |
| 25 | He did it so cleverly that you would think it was the real thing — until he burst out laughing . |
| 26 | It 's to analyze that , you would think it was the cat 's face , but it 's the face of the cotes . |
| 27 | The people of Scotland would remember it was the SNP who voted with Mrs Thatcher to bring a Labour government down . |
| 28 | I do view this as one of the ‘ great classics but I do not know if I would say it is the greatest book ever written in English as I have not yet read widely enough but I would definitely say that for all the above reasons that it is a great book . |
| 29 | Well I , naturally , being a chemist , would say it 's the centre of science , but quite seriously it is an extremely important area . |
| 30 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |