Example sentences of "it be a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may wish to explore whether had it been a business transaction it would have been included in the profit and loss account . |
| 2 | Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ? |
| 3 | ‘ Could it be a nerve agent say , tabun or sarin ? ’ |
| 4 | Nor should it be a policy document to be rigidly adhered to , come what may . |
| 5 | Should it be a subsistence wage and if so how do you calculate how much that is ? |
| 6 | ‘ I only wish it were a day trip you were on . ’ |
| 7 | Wearing a baggy green cap and showing not the slightest tension , Latif went for his strokes as if it were a charity match . |
| 8 | An arbitration award can be enforced by application to the court under s26 of the Arbitration Act 1950 , which allows enforcement of the award in the same way as if it were a court judgment . |
| 9 | The anatomy theatre , in which lectures on medicine and surgery were also delivered , held about 100 pupils , and adjacent to it were a dissecting room , yard and paddock . |
| 10 | Balanced upon it were a Sèvres plate , a Sèvres cup and saucer . |
| 11 | Like many I would draw the line if it were a water closet frequented by the public , but prison is not a place for such offenders . |
| 12 | If we imagine ourselves to be standing outside time , looking down upon the history of the Universe as if it were a relief map , we get a different perspective . |
| 13 | ( The top level directory of a VMS device or pseudo-device is always treated as though it were a directory file named 000000 . |
| 14 | ‘ It were a karaoke machine . ’ |
| 15 | The oval dining table stood before the rear window , but it held in the middle a model of the house on a low plinth as if it were a museum exhibit , and the eight high-backed dining chairs had been set back against the walls . |
| 16 | The waiter watched this display with patient interest and carried the loaded saucer away ceremoniously , as though it were a church collection plate . |
| 17 | The background tells more than the people or the happenings : the water-sprinkler on the lawn ; the hateful birds with their ‘ strident and spiteful noises ’ and ‘ those banal exchanges from tree to tree , mockings and bickerings and sudden solo trillings ’ ; the cook with a napkin fastened round her head as if it were a Stilton cheese … . |
| 18 | Indeed , why is so much that is trivial in organizations treated as though it were a state secret ? |
| 19 | Willi had , somehow , over the years , forced everyone into the custom of dressing as though it were a State ball instead of a private dinner party in a prosperous farmhouse . |
| 20 | The new principle of a two-thirds majority of those present , as it were a head count — without discriminating between them as to worth , age and weightiness — was undoubtedly responsible for Lothar 's election . |
| 21 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 22 | It were a talking point but er it was n't er n nobody seemed unduly perturbed about it . |
| 23 | He wore the soft , white , flowing robes of a monk , but in a peculiar fashion , with his shoulders hunched forward , as though it were a prison garment . |
| 24 | The jade lay concealed in her bag , and she was aware of it as if it were a ton weight on her shoulders . |
| 25 | I thought it were a tea bag . |
| 26 | A note pinned to the wall , as if it were a restaurant menu , informs the King of the rate of interest on his fortune . |
| 27 | Culley pulled on the man 's hair as if it were a bell rope , backhanded him across the throat again , then clamped his hand over Schmidt 's mouth . |
| 28 | It were a Saturday night cos I was in . |
| 29 | ‘ September , ’ she said , as if it were a death sentence , ‘ if you must know . |
| 30 | When this happens work out the effect just as if it were an enemy unit . |