Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got to be such a strain , though . |
| 2 | It ceased to be such a good bargain . |
| 3 | It promised to be another brilliant day . |
| 4 | All in all , it promised to be another heavenly day , she thought , feeling her spirits rise almost perceptibly . |
| 5 | It seemed to be all suckers and tentacles . |
| 6 | It seemed to be some kind of ferry , because they were being poled across from one side of the canal to the other — while they remained standing , like people on a packed London bus . |
| 7 | It seemed to be another fit like the last one , only worse . |
| 8 | In practice , it proved to be more than a mere truce after two decades of mutual and unbridled hostility . |
| 9 | It proved to be some extremely strong wine he had hidden . |
| 10 | It appeared to be some disturbance of the atmosphere , a puckering slash of the ethereal epidermis itself . |
| 11 | Yes it had to be that . |
| 12 | It had to be that way . |
| 13 | Nigel 's wife was obviously such a monster , too , that it had to be any good woman 's Christian duty to save him from a fate worse than death , or at the very least to give him a little light relief . |
| 14 | When the verdict came down over the radio earlier that afternoon , I thought it had to be some kind of misunderstanding — a joke . |
| 15 | It had to be more than the trauma of the afternoon . |
| 16 | ‘ It had to be this colour and everything . |