Example sentences of "it be [coord] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 2 | Oh that 's what I said , I said it is but if you can get him to say you know , Sting 's deserted me you know he , he lets me live on a , you know , my twenty three quid a week pension . |
| 3 | well , well that 's what it is but if you can get into Romania |
| 4 | And then he said I 'm always here and I do n't know whether he 's supposed to come down or what it is but as I said to him it 's a load of codswallop . |
| 5 | and now the van 's got the red light heat coming on , on the battery , took it into the garage and checked it , it 's charging the battery alright , its alternator 's okay , but we do n't know what it is but when you turn it on , when you turn the key on in the morning |
| 6 | They should be constantly asking why a bottle is the shape it is and whether the ingredients come from a whale or from a natural substance of which there is great abundance . |
| 7 | Yet for ten novels of adventure using this formulaic , superficial method there will be one , if we can find it , which by stretching the convention of improbable excitement by an acceptance of human nature both as it is and as it can be , offers not an escape but an enlargement of life through imagination . |
| 8 | ‘ My lord , ’ said Hugh heartily , ‘ the king 's peace , such as it is and as we manage to maintain it , is very much your business , and your experience in it is longer than mine . |
| 9 | Er , nobody 's mentioned the religious bias yet , and I do n't know how strong it is in Edinburgh , but in , in Glasgow it is and if people are religiously biased they are ve , very often biased a about other things and I da , I think people should adopt an attitude of live and let live ! |
| 10 | ‘ It is and if you go there you 'll be lucky to escape with your balls . ’ |
| 11 | It 's either this or nothing which , which it is and if you want it I mean Lesley 's not bothered about it cos he 's giving her seven hundred quid a blooming month ! |
| 12 | Again , if you go back before about eighteen hundred , if you look at er if you look at art , you find that painters paint things entitled The Rape of Europa , The Rape of , The Rape of whoever it is and if you look at these pictures it 's just people lounging around with not very many clothes on . |
| 13 | No no not when it occurred but what it is and when it 's gon na be collected is . |
| 14 | Laughter is the same language the world over , and the sense of pride and group identity which is engendered when a group tells another about who it is and where they came from is a critical factor in the cementation of the group and fostering of indigenous skills . |
| 15 | Whether you need planning permission and/or Building Regulations approval for your garage depends on how big it is and where it stands . |
| 16 | I would like to trace that film , but I do n't know where it is and where we could now see it . |
| 17 | Your Tax Office — Why It Is and Where It Is ( IR 52 ) |
| 18 | When you see a problem take a note of what it is and where it is . |
| 19 | Oh ooh goody , I know who it is and where it is now |
| 20 | I in particular , bearing in mind the point that er Mr i is making , that er newts seem to be as it were very choosy in where they er go , bearing in mind the existence of at least three other ponds in Skelton , I would like to know whe how er why it is or whether it is that newts are only found in this pond , and whether or not er the the survey has shown anything in either of er in any of the other ponds . |
| 21 | erm I do I do n't , I mean I do n't know how accurate it is or whether it 's sort of , you know , a set of figures they decided to put on . |
| 22 | But even if one is not antagonised by the appalling monotony of Mr. Lawrence 's theme , under all its splendid variations , one still turns away with the judgement : ‘ this is not my world , either as it is or as I should wish it to be . ’ |
| 23 | Radharc programmes aim to show the viewer the reality of the world at home and abroad , as it is or as it was , with the apostolic object of evoking a Christian response to injustice , bigotry or pride . |
| 24 | With provocation we do not describe something as it is or as it could be . |
| 25 | You wake up in yet another hotel bed and you do n't know what day it is or where you are . |
| 26 | We do n't know what it is or where it came from , but there 's obviously something in it ! ’ |
| 27 | Well it was but whether it 's erm try it again from cold I think . |
| 28 | In the shadow between the houses Owen could not see what it was but when they came up to it he saw that it was a man . |
| 29 | Once it was or while you were building it and once it was up . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Information which was confidential in the sense that the employee had been told it was or because from its character it was obviously so . |