Example sentences of "it be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how familiar with literary works you become , you can not focus equally on all parts of a text ( particularly a long text , such as a novel ) : so you need to decide which parts of it are most worth reading closely and writing about . |
| 2 | Notwithstanding the passage of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 , adultery and the case-law governing it are still of relevance in pursuing a divorce action . |
| 3 | Even those of us too young to have been part of it are still under the spell of the culture of activism formed around it . |
| 4 | This entails an awareness of the mutability of this world , and an awareness of what elements in it are permanently to be valued . |
| 5 | Should it be primarily about celebration of success and ways of ensuring further successes or is it a time for grizzling at parents ? |
| 6 | Think carefully before you decide — will it be just for you , or will other members of your family want to use the computer ? |
| 7 | What , will it be just for a short period cos it was n't nine o clock ? |
| 8 | On second thoughts there is nothing surprising in ‘ which we all use ’ ; how could it be otherwise in a family like the Marmeladov 's ? |
| 9 | Will it be always like that then ? |
| 10 | By their long resistance , the Covenanters secured the freedom of the Kirk from state control and long may it be so in Scotland . |
| 11 | As it were apart from the bottled water that the gentleman there buys . |
| 12 | So because we 're doing something from our normal end of the spectrum as it were right through to trying to involve everybody in the city , erm we 're hoping to get the issue across to a lot more people , and also raise money while we 're doing it . |
| 13 | it were just like rain dripping ! |
| 14 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 15 | ‘ Just to demonstrate — if it were ever in any doubt — the total unsuitability of our present situation . |
| 16 | The gout writer had recommended addressing the ailment with good humour , ‘ as if , ’ says Boswell , ‘ it were quite in our power to attain it . ’ |
| 17 | The jewellery at wrist and neck shone as if it were still on display in the shop from which it came , and the odour from the man was simply — nothing . |
| 18 | Each of the 30 rooms is arranged as if it were still in use — the Little Drawing Room was designed by Robert Adam with gilded mouldings and intricate wall paintings . |
| 19 | Michael said it were there at erm five to twelve , when he erm quarter past twelve when he come out of work they got in it . |
| 20 | It were enough for me to take back to our branch and say " it 's us against them " . " |
| 21 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |
| 22 | But once you 'd lied — even if it were only by implication or simply by failing to deny something — you were forced to go on lying . |
| 23 | I says , do n't tell me , I said , he did the same thing to me the other day , and it were only within a couple of days of each other . |
| 24 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 25 | That said , versatility could be the Power Tool 's middle name , and in a serious rock player 's rack or studio I could see it being permanently in use . |
| 26 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 27 | ‘ … a queer little place called Ornovitza , tucked away in an eastern corner of Europe , it 's rather of the Republic of San Marino type , only it is n't a republic , it 's a Duchy . ’ |
| 28 | It 's rather like pond life — little tadpoles eating even smaller ones and bigger ones eating them . |
| 29 | It 's rather like a computer when the disc goes wrong — you know the info is there but you ca n't tap into it . |
| 30 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |