Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] the " 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 | Of what interest could it be to the man where her father was born ? |
| 8 | Well would n't it be on the reverse bearing . |
| 9 | Should n't it be on the floor ? |
| 10 | 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 . ’ ’ |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | The more continuous and lasting a direct interpersonal encounter , the harder will it be for the encounter to assume a purely instrumental quality . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | So , too , will it be with the new technologies … |
| 15 | How could it be with the clown candidate Ross ‘ I 'm All Ears ’ Perot . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Or what can it be in the context of large-scale modern societies ? |
| 19 | Well er wo n't it be in the other one , catalogue . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It might be possible otherwise to go would it be in the local paper . |
| 22 | Or would it be like the British poll tax , with rich and poor paying the same subject to a complicated system of rebates ? |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | But would it be within the spirit of the manifesto to murmur , read my lips , no more direct taxes ? |
| 25 | If the Soviet Union refuses to play that game any more , how long will it be before the poor of this great country realise that the genuine community of interest exists among themselves ? |
| 26 | For the next 100 million years parts of it were under the sea and it was covered with layers of sandstone , then limestone , and swampy forests which were buried between layers of mud and sand . |
| 27 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 28 | Thus , if we assume a simple deterministic relationship between the social and religious orders ( as anthropologists all too often do ) , we can expect that Nuer religion similarly extends , as it were into the skies , its own secular lineage structure . |
| 29 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 30 | Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference . |