Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inequality and the response to it are themes of many geographical and political studies . |
| 2 | So I took the book down and there was my speech ; and the response to it was extraordinary . |
| 3 | The measurable effect of this concern and the response to it was , to be honest , very limited . |
| 4 | The income from it is then the wife 's , therefore , if it happens to be three four four five , it is completely free of tax , whereas left with the husband would be taxed . |
| 5 | and erm , mum was sorry that Mark had been on about it , she said , oh I bet that 's where he goes , and erm , like the park beside it was just lovely , |
| 6 | There 's a great deal that a competent d-i-y enthusiast can undertake himself : the majority of it is hammer-and-saw work . |
| 7 | The majority of it is in private ownership but livestock are almost always excluded and regeneration of woodland is not prevented as it is in most of the upland woods in the UK . |
| 8 | Each such polarization invariably reflects the values of the writers who impose it , but there is a wide consensus among critics who have written about the literature of the period that the majority of it is unambitious , anti-experimental and somewhat lacking in originality . |
| 9 | We feel we do a great deal of work in this area but the majority of it is incorporated in thematic work or incidental . |
| 10 | To actually go through it a bit at a time I mean the majority of it is fine |
| 11 | Still well I mean I know the majority of it 's wood and there 's three large windows in it , and a door and erm the roof is this erm stuff it 's just like er plastic moulding but it 's double glazed bloody oven in there ! |
| 12 | The Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales lost 8,195 hectares of moorland ( to agriculture and forestry ) between 1885 and 1975 , and the northern half of the Snowdonia National Park lost 5,201 hectares over a similar period , though the majority of it was to forestry . |
| 13 | Er as I say , it the majority of it was soup , but on one occasion during the week , we always had er er some sort of mincemeat , er potted meat sandwiches and tea . |
| 14 | There at her feet was a shallow dell and huddled in the snow at the base of it was George , with Tess snuggled up to him , her head on his chest . |
| 15 | But listings , plus music , plus music ads were the backbone of It 's success in that period . |
| 16 | What I 'll do when I 'm , if all the if signs and buts are covered , I will put the mike on it 's stand when I 'm working tomorrow , put it on the desk and put the recorder in the , in my briefcase underneath the little desk |
| 17 | As Bertrand Russell points out , it was James Mill , active Radical as he was , who in 1831 wrote of Hodgskin 's followers : ‘ Their notions of property look ugly : … they seem to think that it should not exist , and that the existence of it is an evil to them . |
| 18 | Yeah the board in it 's wisdom looking at the financial situation decided to take on a policy which actually prohibited the use of the studio theatre by professional companies and I think that 's reduced the actual use of that facility . |
| 19 | I just did the last one , the next , the , the , the next to the last one erm , I said er , I ca n't remember what the differentiation of it is , he said you would n't you have n't done it , I said no we 'd started |
| 20 | no , because the point is that Labour has not changed it 's course , which is recognizing that at the heart of it 's policies we have to show that we know the world has changed , and we 've got a message to women , which is that we know that you are essential in your role in the family , but we know you 're also essential in the economy , |
| 21 | I am conscious that I speak in parable ; but all that vast organisation and provision which must be made for the old in the coming generation will bring disappointment unless the purpose at the heart of it is one that satisfies . |
| 22 | The heart of it is about later life today , as told to us by 55 older men and women who are all grandparents . |
| 23 | At the heart of it is the Church understanding of Revelation , which has constantly been reiterated in the writings of Pope John Paul II . |
| 24 | The heart of it is classic good tunes . |
| 25 | During that eight years ' task , those at the heart of it were learning themselves how to pray more deeply and contemplatively . |
| 26 | In the heart of it was one of those still meres that were frequent in this part of the forest but because the yews had given way to giant beeches there was nothing dark about this lake which reflected the blue sky above and was a mirror of brightness . |
| 27 | On the fire , when the heart of it was red , went a square , brightly coloured cardboard box covered with black and crimson dragons , and strange symbols . |
| 28 | Make em laugh , make em cry , the Muppets from Lord Grade 's ATV , a pioneering puppet show … and right at the heart of it was Bill Ward . |
| 29 | How different it was all to be , and the marvel of it is that the plans prepared in the period after 1945 proved as robust as they did for so long . |
| 30 | The case against it is precisely that it purports to explain the whole of history and , for that matter , of pre-history , by reference to a total system , and so denies to any of its implicated parts ( social , economic , racial , geographical , religious and so on ) as well as to the actions of its great or good men any separate authenticity . |