Example sentences of "it be [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind . |
| 2 | Could it be that Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy 's voice is being heard this side of the Atlantic , after he reportedly told Novell Inc 's Ray Noorda to fire everyone at Unix System Labs except a handful of marketing guys and the engineers ? |
| 3 | And director Patrick Garland gives these tender moments ( notably Lockwood West wistfully singing ‘ It Were All Green Hills ’ ) as much emphasis as the noisy production numbers . |
| 4 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 5 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 6 | It 's that Ripper bloke they 're all going on about . |
| 7 | People around me stated ‘ Oh hell , it 's that poncy twat from The Smiths that loves flowers . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's that Mildred Hubble ! ’ said Griselda , who was almost in tears . |
| 9 | It 's that back yard . |
| 10 | It 's that let's-get-on-with-it expression . |
| 11 | Ken himself always said that it was a modernized version of the kind of radio entertainment that Tommy Handley had brought with his famous wartime comedy series , ITMA ( ‘ It 's That Man Again' ) . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's that bastard Nazi who 's trapped . ’ |
| 13 | It 's on look , it 's that colour lipstick |
| 14 | Cos when he knocked on door and I thought oh I wonder if it 's that parcel midi hi-fi system I 'm |
| 15 | Unless it 's that cooker thing , I think her cooker 's there . |
| 16 | It 's that Mayday bank holiday . |
| 17 | It 's that Paula Bristow — Lady Muck herself . |
| 18 | Beneath it there 's a Sun cartoon of a chap being polled on his doorstep : ‘ I think Kinnock is marvellous , ’ he says , ‘ it 's that windbag husband of hers I ca n't stand . ’ ) |
| 19 | It 's that masking tape bloody company again in er , Newcastle |
| 20 | ‘ It 's that Becky Salmon . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's that kangaroo juice he puts in the engine , ’ Terry teased her after she had started from outside the house in a series of jumps . |
| 22 | It 's that ballet dancer . |
| 23 | Now it 's all Boy Scout stuff and bivouacs and tents . |
| 24 | Erm but in the end it 's all estates division anyway . |
| 25 | If you compare it with other departments , if you talk to people who do English and stuff , and they know all their tutors by their first names ; I mean , it 's nothing like that here , it 's all Dr So-and-So — I mean , half the lecturers , I did n't even know what their second names were , let alone their first names — maybe that 's just a result of physics , nothing to do with them . |
| 26 | Yeah , but then you , that impression made me think that all , it 's all South Africa , which , which was why |
| 27 | But because we , we sort of account for just our territory , it 's core territory , and our territory accounts for forty percent of revenue , there 's an awful lot of accounts registered , so Jenny does n't get any , hardly any time at all to actually go off and , and do any cold calling or anything like that , it 's all B M S. |
| 28 | One , the one section , one section of it , it 's all women clothes and lace ware and beautiful clothes and so on , you know it 's a market but you know and little places of pottery and so on and then the next section you go down this old market , there 's a old big square and you walk on there and you 're talking about , you go to buy avocados over here , you 're buying sixty and seventy pence for one , and you 're paying sixty pence for about bloody six over there |
| 29 | Nowadays it 's all Nirvana imports and ‘ Needed . |
| 30 | It 's all evening weekends you know . |