Example sentences of "it be [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be that head of the family ? or the coffin maker ? |
| 2 | I looked carefully about me , hiding behind one of those contorted shapes , and glimpsed Dana in the distance , walking away from the group of friends and joining a young woman , tall , pale , dark , distinguished-looking — could it be that dancer of his ? |
| 3 | Might it be that living with Phillis had turned him patsy , a dope to any skirt ? |
| 4 | Nor might it be much consolation to him , as he ran into the singularity in real time , to know that his particles will survive in imaginary time . |
| 5 | Could it be some sort of retribution for sending a 440k gif file last week ? |
| 6 | Might it be some form of … |
| 7 | Could it be some form of horse decoration . |
| 8 | would it be any help for |
| 9 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 10 | The contract is back again , I done all this erm water pipe it were all gravel in there sunk into the ground you know big hole in the ground ! |
| 11 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 12 | ‘ It were that doctor with the yellow hair , were n't it ? ’ she said . |
| 13 | He was studying it reverently , as if it were some breviary of tobacco . |
| 14 | But again the accent was on seniority : ‘ Commonly wee do not call any a yeoman till he be married , and have children , and as it were some authoritie among his neighbours ’ . |
| 15 | Condensation is an epidemic on this estate and usually the tenants are blamed , as though it were some kind of social disease , not a structural defect . |
| 16 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 17 | Usually , one then treats one set of relations as problematic and.simply assumes the existence of the other , as if it were some sort of indeterminate background noise or , more contentiously , assigns truth to one and falsity to the other . |
| 18 | People often treat science as if it were some sort of ‘ forbidden country ’ . |
| 19 | It was disguised as if it were some form of regional assistance , whereas it was bailing out uneconomic , old industries which ought to have been modernised . |
| 20 | Well I do n't remember it being any hassle for me . |
| 21 | Being so close it 's much beloved of families on a day 's outing , but is still an alpine hut for all that . |
| 22 | This policy of ‘ cost optimisation ’ will be continued into the current year , he said , and should be helped by the relocation of Siemens Nixdorf 's parent company , Siemens AG , into UK headquarters in Bracknell — Siemens ' lease on it 's former site in Sunbury has now run out . |
| 23 | Mmm , it 's that element of double checking that |
| 24 | It 's that pub in Limehouse , down by the river . |
| 25 | But after the permission of the seventies , when sex was banalized by becoming available , it could no longer be the instigator of desperation ( it 's that state of mind that is indispensable to rock , not physical fin ) . |
| 26 | And it 's that part of the jigsaw that I want to concentrate on . |
| 27 | Blue Velvet has had more effect on me than anything musically — it 's that idea of everything superficially being nice and chummy but underneath there 's something sinister . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's that man from Ostkreuz . |
| 29 | it 's that kind of thing , rather than I suppose to the theatre way , you know , you , you react much more spontaneously , so I thought that was an interesting thing that thing |
| 30 | Yeah , I mean it 's that kind of co-ordination , yeah , to get that , to get that , right |