Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Like gesture , this may be consciously controlled or it may be something of which we are largely unaware .
2 On modern waste systems this is relatively easy , but on old-fashioned systems it may be anything from difficult to impossible — and care needs to be taken not to crack a ceramic basin when unscrewing a tight cleaning eye .
3 It should not be in the political arena ; it should be something on which we are all working together . ’
4 D which is ridiculous really I mean if you pronounce it said it should be something like S E D
5 Erm , they all suggested that it should be something like famine .
6 There is no reason why , out of the whole Universe , it should be us at the centre . ’
7 It must be something about the place , ’ she agreed meekly .
8 It must be something for her to change
9 The presupposition that for something about a stimulus to mediate localisation it must be something of which one is conscious , was abandoned .
10 It must be something of the sentiment that inspired the war poets , enduring indescribable ugliness — the mutilation and destruction of people and places amongst the fragile flowers that nature silently but abundantly proffered in the stench , decay and squalor of the trenches .
11 It must be something of a surprise today the announcement ?
12 ‘ I thought it must be something like that . ’
13 It must be something like , like that .
14 He added : ‘ It must be something in the environment . ’
15 It must be something in the atmosphere , ’ said Sendei .
16 It must be something in the water …
17 ‘ I guess it must be something in the chemistry . ’
18 But it grew and grew , like a great impossible wave gathering , till she knew it must be something from outside herself ; she heard her voice crying words of some kind , as if impelled .
19 It must be summat in t'air , ’ grunted Jonadab Oaks .
20 That entity must be based on consensus and it must be one to which the British people will willingly belong because they appreciate the advantages to which the hon. Member for Chichester has already referred .
21 Those practices must be brought to an end , and I know that my hon. Friends will strongly support the Government when we say that enough is enough and that if we are to have a compulsory competitive tendering regime , it must be one under which the private and public sectors are able to compete with absolute equality .
22 Europe needs a farm policy , admits Lady Wilcox , but it must be one in which social concerns are separate from price policy .
23 " It must be someone in your mother 's past , someone reasonably close to her .
24 You have n't been in London for months , so it must be someone from round here .
25 It was the traditional fare and they had agreed it might be something worth trying .
26 it might be something worth pulling kids out of .
27 It might be something about blending with the efficient American women he had seen around the city or it might be a feeling of exile .
28 It might be something of a race , then , once the Scots were in sight and it was perceived that they were going to cross , with ten thousand horsemen to get over .
29 Good so it might be it might be something like B R O three or B R O or B R O two something like but it would have oxygen to go with it .
30 ‘ That 's what I said ; I just got the impression it might be something like that . ’
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