Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] [art] [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 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 5 | Of what interest could it be to the man where her father was born ? |
| 6 | Should n't it be on the floor ? |
| 7 | What life will it be for a child stuck in here ? ’ |
| 8 | The more continuous and lasting a direct interpersonal encounter , the harder will it be for the encounter to assume a purely instrumental quality . |
| 9 | How could it be with the clown candidate Ross ‘ I 'm All Ears ’ Perot . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | What does that come to , without doing it , what would it be as a decimal ? |
| 12 | Then , and only then , will it be in a position to force political parties to act . |
| 13 | Or what can it be in the context of large-scale modern societies ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | But would it be within the spirit of the manifesto to murmur , read my lips , no more direct taxes ? |
| 17 | The bold structure of its theories rises , as it were above a swamp . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 20 | If you were involved in things at a senior level , whether it were as an administrator , a Minister or even as a senior policeman , you had hundreds of things on the go at any one time . |
| 21 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This is very difficult because it means er it is a potential threat as it were to the countryside of the county . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When the Alternative Service Book was threatening the absolutism of the Book of Common Prayer a few years ago , the Book of Common Prayer was being spoken of as if it were on a par with Holy Writ . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | I , er first of all I was a kind of shy wee laddie as it were on the council . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I thought it better to pretend I had forgotten the incident , as if it were of no importance . |
| 30 | Now , the means whereby the standards of the higher courses , devised by the new polytechnics , could be validated and monitored were also at hand , with the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) , granted its Royal Charter in 1964 , and charged with ensuring that the courses approved by it were of a standard at least equivalent to similar courses in the universities . |