Example sentences of "it be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been in the day time I 'm sure there would have been lives lost for they would n't have stayed in to seen their stuff go under . |
| 2 | There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years . |
| 3 | And meanwhile , next year 's potatoes will not be planted because the men who should be doing it are on the public works instead — and they are on the public works because that is the only place they can get money to buy the meal they need to replace the potato that failed . ’ |
| 4 | Of what interest could it be to the man where her father was born ? |
| 5 | Should n't it be on the floor ? |
| 6 | The more continuous and lasting a direct interpersonal encounter , the harder will it be for the encounter to assume a purely instrumental quality . |
| 7 | How could it be with the clown candidate Ross ‘ I 'm All Ears ’ Perot . |
| 8 | ‘ Will it be with the Student Communist Party or Opus Dei ? ’ — both risks springing to the mind of a parent living in an ancient university city . |
| 9 | Or what can it be in the context of large-scale modern societies ? |
| 10 | Ca n't it , could it be in the quality manual , rather than erm , have a procedure about how to write a proce , when to start and have a pro . |
| 11 | It was a bit like having someone rub you with suntan cream , yet it was n't like that at all — how could it be in the dark ? |
| 12 | But would it be within the spirit of the manifesto to murmur , read my lips , no more direct taxes ? |
| 13 | For the next 100 million years parts of it were under the sea and it was covered with layers of sandstone , then limestone , and swampy forests which were buried between layers of mud and sand . |
| 14 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 15 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 16 | This is very difficult because it means er it is a potential threat as it were to the countryside of the county . |
| 17 | Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference . |
| 18 | The Labour leadership was sceptical about workers ' control , indeed Cripps is reported as having said ‘ I think it would be almost impossible to have worker-controlled industry in Britain even if it were on the whole desirable ’ ( Coates & Topham , 1975 , p. 60 ) . |
| 19 | I , er first of all I was a kind of shy wee laddie as it were on the council . |
| 20 | Her fresh-faced expression gazing as it were on the threshold of life is a poignant reminder of the passing of time and finite nature of dreams . |
| 21 | For example , an ambiguous stop segment at the beginning of would be less likely to be identified as than if it were at the beginning of . |
| 22 | When he was consecrated , however , Cranmer made a public protestation that any oath which he took acknowledging the authority of the Pope was not intended to be binding if it were against the law of God or the King 's prerogatives , nor would it bind him to be less free in reformation of the Church . |
| 23 | To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell . |
| 24 | But he would give her anything then but it were like the doctor said it was too late . |
| 25 | The animal 's diet has to be similar , if not exactly the same as , its diet would be if it were in the wild . |
| 26 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 27 | Yeah , so if it were in the dictionary , I mean I know you able to turn to the |
| 28 | If it were in the silence that the blackbirds speak to each other ? |
| 29 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 30 | This was Little Gidding , and , as she wrote , ‘ I shall never forget the experience of hearing the words new-minted as it were from the poet 's own lips ’ . |