Example sentences of "it be [conj] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ? |
| 2 | On one he inscribed Michelet 's words : ‘ How can it be that there is in the world one woman alone — deserted ? ’ |
| 3 | Could it be that there is a nip in the air ? |
| 4 | Could it be that there are many doctors not working because even in general practice part time opportunities are sparse ? |
| 5 | So how can it be that there are such enormous variations between different parts of Kent ? |
| 6 | I know it 's 'cause there 's a party planned for my birthday we 're going so far . |
| 7 | I said , that 's right it 's and there was a narrow road , yes . |
| 8 | Well it 's if there 's anything wrong with Rozario they are in trouble Forest . |
| 9 | It 's because there 's nothing in it . |
| 10 | In case anyone is wondering why there has n't been any coverage of LASMO 's tournament-winning broomball team recently , it 's because there is no ice on the Broadgate rink . |
| 11 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 12 | It 's because there are economies of scale , alright , now if there are gains to be had from specialisation right , and consumers want specialised products and the best thing to do is to , erm , focus production in a single location right , for lots of different variants of this product right . |
| 13 | I think it 's because there 's such a lot of mixed people here now . |
| 14 | Officially it 's because there 's a Derwentside civic service the same day ; that Sunderland are also in the FA Cup semi-final is , of course , irrelevant . |
| 15 | It is that there is an obligation to go to Catholic school … |
| 16 | It is that there is no community to appeal to ; for the phenomenon itself is the evidence that there is more than one community , or a divided community . |
| 17 | It is not that she does not know what to say , it is that there is not enough time to say all she knows . |
| 18 | Her theory is that the more that control is personalised , the more likely it is that there will be friction between management and the workforce , but that continuous-process plants , because they are so highly automated , have unified impersonal control systems which minimise conflict and lead to more satisfying working conditions . |
| 19 | The second strong PR option would be to take the opposite line , to say how outrageous it is that there is all this terrible auditing going on , and to promise painful retribution for the wrongdoers . |
| 20 | That may be a ‘ price worth paying ’ to relieve recession , but if economics tells us anything it is that there is no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 21 | If there is any criticism of this super volume it is that there are not enough explanatory captions . |
| 22 | It is that there is more spoken dialogue . |
| 23 | The way I would see it is that there is a need for a broad consensus between government , IDB , LEDU , DED and all the various government agencies and community groups , economists and experts and the people on the ground themselves , because I do n't think the government has it within their power to solve the problem and I do n't think experts have it within their power to solve the problem . |
| 24 | Sometimes I look at my father and I wonder what 's going on in his mind , why it is that there 's so much hatred , so much poison inside him . |
| 25 | The larger the employer , the less likely it is that there will be an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 26 | Why d why do you think why do you think it is that there was n't that motivation ? |
| 27 | It is that there are no unambiguous criteria with which to judge the contribution that different administrative activities make to some final goal or set of values . |
| 28 | Rather , it is that there exist people willing to pay prices lower than Pm , but which are in excess of the marginal costs of providing additional units . |
| 29 | However , if there is anything clear in the muddied waters of postmodernism , it is that there is no such thing as " raw " data . |
| 30 | Mr Goldring added : ‘ What is really significant in this case is not what happened to each child individually , it is that there were so many collapses . ’ |