Example sentences of "of [adj] it be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first half of 1991 it was £2.1 billion , which is some 30 per cent . |
| 2 | At any rate in the spring of 1784 it was Friends who resolved to accompany their delivery of their anti-slave trade pamphlet prepared by the slave trade committee of the Meeting for Sufferings with lobbying of MPs . |
| 3 | The shifting sign-value of the terms tends to emphasize the overlap , or the common power , of three of these basic sources or types of sensual pleasure : sex , food and money ; of these it is sexuality that is central , overlapping with both of the others . |
| 4 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 5 | And erm that , that , first of all it was lectures and helping , you did get er patients coming in . |
| 6 | Er you know most of those it 's sort of pre-Christmas and round Christmas . |