Example sentences of "it be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 2 | Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer . |
| 3 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 4 | Well would n't it be on the reverse bearing . |
| 5 | Whatever was our state with respect to God at the moment of our departure hence , that same will it be at the dreadful day of judgement . ’ ’ |
| 6 | So , too , will it be with the new technologies … |
| 7 | Well er wo n't it be in the other one , catalogue . |
| 8 | OK , so will it be in the next announcement or is it in there already and IBM Corp just has n't told anybody about it yet ? |
| 9 | It might be possible otherwise to go would it be in the local paper . |
| 10 | Or would it be like the British poll tax , with rich and poor paying the same subject to a complicated system of rebates ? |
| 11 | If the Soviet Union refuses to play that game any more , how long will it be before the poor of this great country realise that the genuine community of interest exists among themselves ? |
| 12 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 13 | If it were on the very fringe of his area he might not be back until lunch-time . |
| 14 | The arrangement of the signs and symbols is designed to encourage a deepening awareness of their " pointing-towards " character ; the deeper we penetrate behind the scenes as it were of the various words and actions , the closer can they be seen to become because all alike are pointing towards that Mystery which is beyond straightforward conceptual understanding . |
| 15 | I beg your pardon I beg your pardon twelve , these two things were separate you know one could be added to the other in looking an as it were at the total employment requirement . |
| 16 | The importance that the Government place on this section is shown by the fact that it was among the first provisions of the 1989 Act to be brought into operation and the regulations made under it were among the first to be published . |
| 17 | It were in the 1920s and it was a passenger train from Cleethorpes to Doncaster and the driver , well , he was a hard , fast driver and he was n't popular with firemen . |
| 18 | For example , if at P the parcel had no motion in the east-west direction across the planet 's surface and the planet 's axial rotation is prograde then it will pick up motion across the grid towards the east , and in moving northwards will end up for example at Q. If it were in the southern hemisphere and moved southward it would also pick up an eastwards movement . |
| 19 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 20 | It were in the 1890s . |
| 21 | Another investigation , looking at the problem as it were from the opposite direction , compared adoptees selected for later estimates of their creativity and then examined incidences of mental illness . |
| 22 | So , for the moment , our problem is not with the Navy observers who are directing the naval guns , it 's with the increasing number of guns firing over our positions from the direction of the River Orne . |
| 23 | It 's with the other things . |
| 24 | It 's got erm , it 's with the same |
| 25 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 26 | But you just said it 's down the bottom end ? |
| 27 | It 's Of the total amount you 've spent in the last year , both on your own , how much have you spent at the main It does n't ask you how much you spent anywhere . |
| 28 | You must have a good corset first , it 's of the greatest importance . |
| 29 | The metal strip at the side of the card holds an electrical charge — like a piece of recording tape ; this machine reads that , to make sure it 's of the current pattern , while at the same time photographing me and my tag and weighing me . |
| 30 | Other than that the neck feels really good and solid , and although it 's of the slim , wide variety ( 43.75mm at nut ) the fingerboard is n't so wide that you ca n't wrap a thumb over the top if you 're so inclined . |