Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] [art] " 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 | There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Had it been in the day time I 'm sure there would have been lives lost for they would n't have stayed in to seen their stuff go under . |
6 | And meanwhile , next year 's potatoes will not be planted because the men who should be doing it are on the public works instead — and they are on the public works because that is the only place they can get money to buy the meal they need to replace the potato that failed . ’ |
7 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
8 | Of what interest could it be to the man where her father was born ? |
9 | Well would n't it be on the reverse bearing . |
10 | Should n't it be on the floor ? |
11 | If ROI , should it be on an historic or current cost-accounting basis ? |
12 | 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 . ’ ’ |
13 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
14 | What life will it be for a child stuck in here ? ’ |
15 | I wonder , therefore , if I could ask you to take only one copy — would it be for the IBM/CMS or the Sun/3 with UNIX configuration ? |
16 | The more continuous and lasting a direct interpersonal encounter , the harder will it be for the encounter to assume a purely instrumental quality . |
17 | ‘ Will it be with the Student Communist Party or Opus Dei ? ’ — both risks springing to the mind of a parent living in an ancient university city . |
18 | So , too , will it be with the new technologies … |
19 | How could it be with the clown candidate Ross ‘ I 'm All Ears ’ Perot . |
20 | What does that come to , without doing it , what would it be as a decimal ? |
21 | Then , and only then , will it be in a position to force political parties to act . |
22 | job if there 's gon na be an exercise or a they like it to be a real-life practical situation , almost like a simulation of the job rather than something that 's er for example if you were to do a case study , pragmatists would like it be in an insurance-related case study and it could be related to their job very . |
23 | It was a bit like having someone rub you with suntan cream , yet it was n't like that at all — how could it be in the dark ? |
24 | 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 ? |
25 | Or what can it be in the context of large-scale modern societies ? |
26 | Well er wo n't it be in the other one , catalogue . |
27 | Ca n't it , could it be in the quality manual , rather than erm , have a procedure about how to write a proce , when to start and have a pro . |
28 | It might be possible otherwise to go would it be in the local paper . |
29 | Or would it be like the British poll tax , with rich and poor paying the same subject to a complicated system of rebates ? |
30 | all the things that happen , all these sighs of oppression , because I think really what we 're talking about , whether it be within the family or it be within the media , all the signs of women as er sexist |