Example sentences of "it be [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been there always ? |
| 2 | ‘ And how long has it been so far ? ’ |
| 3 | Well how difficult a season has it been so far , I mean for instance , in the minor County Championship a lot of matches were drawn I think that last season you probably would have won ? |
| 4 | so what happened to all this Yeltsin thing right , has has it been so much build up , speculation of the West , you say thirty years of build up on our part is being wasted , we 've really got nothing to fear of the Russians ? |
| 5 | Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort . |
| 6 | It 's not as quick as its 50MHz and 66MHz siblings , and machines using it are n't that much cheaper . |
| 7 | Because Hepatitis B impairs the immunity system , people who have had it are generally more vulnerable to infections than people who have not . |
| 8 | Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real , when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real , but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation " . |
| 9 | The revaluation reserve shall only be reduced to the extent that the amounts transferred from it are no longer necessary for the purposes of the valuation method used . |
| 10 | The road from Mandalay to Wigan Pier is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear … |
| 11 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 12 | For these reasons it seems that it is not so much that people are making more of a fuss about bereavement these days but rather that the traditional ways of coping with it are not readily available , so that alternative ways of supporting people have to be found . |
| 13 | A House of Lords ' Select Committee has found that detected fraud is only the tip of the iceberg , and that steps taken to support the fight against it are not enough . |
| 14 | The first visual representations of it are not earlier than the middle of the 18th century . |
| 15 | My position will be not only that the model of perfect competition fails to help us understand the market process , but that the models of imperfect competition developed to replace it are little more helpful . |
| 16 | Relations between a still predominantly oral culture and this important and growing sector ‘ within' it are then especially complex , and the point is soon reached when there is a qualitative difference between the oral area , which all share but to which most are confined , and the literate area , which is of increasing cultural importance but is at once minor and dominant . |
| 17 | In many areas of social policy , local authorities have been given permission to provide a service , then , when the need for the service has been clearly demonstrated and resources for it are more widely available , the provision has become mandatory . |
| 18 | Diffusing knowledge and acquiring it are as much an art as a science , processes influenced by variables which can not be measured as much as by those which can . |
| 19 | What the song means and what story lies behind it are typically not explained in The Lord of the Rings , but remain in suggestiveness till The Silmarillion . |
| 20 | so many of the teachers that teach it are far too embarrassed to broach the subject sensibly , you know , and they just pass it on and so kids do n't treat it sensibly . |
| 21 | It is a great deal more abstract , and the deformations within it are much more radical . |
| 22 | The Avent bottles for it are much more expensive than others , about £6 each , but I think they are worth having . |
| 23 | Those who have seen the booklet are more positive about the collegiality and openness and professionality of SSE than those who have not ; those who have used it are much more positive about the professionality of SSE than those who have not ; those who recall it well are much more positive about the collegiality and openness and the efficiency and ( non ) threat of SSE than those who do not ; those who report changes in schools following its use are much more positive about the collegiality and openness and the professionality of SSE . |
| 24 | Well , erm the nucleus is not solid , but the particles in it are much more massive than electrons . |
| 25 | Their method has been designed for recovering a GEM from water — not easy because any bacteria in it are much less abundant than , say in soil . |
| 26 | Would n't it be nice not to have to worry about your energy supply ? |
| 27 | I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for . |
| 28 | ‘ Will it be all right if Aah goes down after Aah 've had a bite t'eat , maister ? ’ asked Lamb . |
| 29 | Instead of the moment being one of passion and desire , his mind is often filled with such thoughts as ‘ I hope it does n't happen again' and ‘ Please let it be all right this time ’ . |
| 30 | And would it be all right if they brought another couple of Conor 's mates ? |