Example sentences of "it be [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had it been his sister ? |
| 2 | Might it be their working environment ? |
| 3 | But , if the Americans were going to make a mess of it , let it be their mess , not his . |
| 4 | . Let it be their responsibility , they put them in there . |
| 5 | Could it be their governments do not believe that the Iraqi regime will eventually be forced to make good the costs of the operation ? |
| 6 | ‘ Can it be his wife ? ’ |
| 7 | Shall I make a guess at his special appeal — could it be his money ? ’ |
| 8 | So Mum said you know could it be my blood sugar level . |
| 9 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 10 | In The World 's Desire , Rider Haggard and his close friend Andrew Lang presented as it were their thesis of romance in a turgid tale based on certain theories of their time concerning possible trafficking between Achaean Greece , Crete and Egypt under the Ramessids . |
| 11 | I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape . |
| 12 | A goose which follows a human being round as if it were its parent does not have its sexual behaviour anything like so disturbed ; when it grows up it will court other geese . |
| 13 | The community is a fictitious body , composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members . |
| 14 | It were them puppies puppies . |
| 15 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 16 | Her breast felt hollow , as if it were her heart she had buried ; but she could move and speak , still . |
| 17 | ‘ The trouble is she feels as if it were her fault . |
| 18 | He glared at her , as if it were her fault she could n't remember . |
| 19 | On it were her confirmation cross and the farthing Rob had given her soon after they met . |
| 20 | ‘ I hope you 'll be at the funeral , ’ said Viola in her grand way , as if it were her show and there 'd be cocktails afterwards . |
| 21 | No , I 'll get a , I 'll get a replacement off my parents , but sorry , she changed the film cos sixteen pictures of it were my ones cos I had n't used the film |
| 22 | Alternatively Vox could of course use a full width string tree on the headstock side of the nut , but if it were my decision I 'd opt for altering the machinehead ; it 's a lot neater and keeps the headstock looking authentic . |
| 23 | it were my teeth , but she says |
| 24 | And I want to know them , know your family , walk into your house as if it were my house . |
| 25 | and also you know when Janet 's doing a stint because you can see if Barbara 's smokes well me and Jenny had a do that week and then you , it were my birthday on the Wednesday were n't it ? |
| 26 | After all , a guitar tech 's job has to depend on such accuracy , and if it were my job then I 'd rather put my faith in the R450 than a box-load of pocket tuners . |
| 27 | I started the Food Addict 's Diet and stuck to it as if it were my shadow . |
| 28 | When they came on Sunday , when it were your anniversary , she 'd got diarrhoea and sickness , Margaret . |
| 29 | ‘ But just think how much more enjoyable your victory would be if you were a member of the family , and it were your family firm ! ’ |
| 30 | Beginning with mine , mine twentieth , it were your Michael 's twenty-sixth , were n't it ? |