Example sentences of "it be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 The supermarket 's suppliers Gulf Oil , based in Cheltenham , said it was reacting to a local situation and Tesco says the cut is part of it 's service to customers , denying it 's creating an artificially low price .
32 It 's home to The Ski School Of Great Britain and nearby Murren has been the backdrop for films including James Bond 's On Her Majesty 's Secret Service — remember the revolving restaurant ?
33 It 's home to the vast fish plants which process two and a half million tons of fishmeal every year … to be sold as animal feed .
34 But it 's home to the Oxford School 's Sailing Association .
35 It 's home to a number of rare trees and wildflowers .
36 And it 's home to a wealth of wildlife .
37 Still no goals , it 's play to Gascoigne , Gascoigne now still going forward , Gascoigne on the edge of the penalty , looking for the one two , he gets the one two , great tackle there by Les Robinson , there 's still a chance to Spurs Steve Foster , chance now — and it 's a goal to Spurs .
38 She says it 's play of a different standard .
39 It 's animal against animal , one on one , which is how it should be .
40 It 's shortage of space , ’ he said , to reassure Mungo .
41 It 's trust in hope .
42 It 's quarter past twelve .
43 Well it 's quarter past six now .
44 It 's quarter past six already .
45 Well it 's quarter past any road
46 Dad , dad , Auntie has to go somewhere I do n't know where , but she just told me to call you cos it 's quarter past fifteen minutes past six or is it seven ?
47 It 's quarter past ten , at half past ten there 's coffee , so you 've got a lifeline to cling on to , and then at half past , after coffee we shall be doing some other things with , with our friends who have joined and who are real local radio people .
48 When we got to within quarter of an hour q sorry quarter of a mile of the the actual village itself , and remember it 's quarter of a mile I 'm talking about not ten yards fifteen yards away , we saw a railway embankment in front of us .
49 It 's quarter to three by this time and still he 's had no lunch …
50 Of course — it 's quarter to three — I 'm not going to get any lunch …
51 It 's not quarter to three here — it 's quarter to three at Paddington !
52 It 's quarter to twelve , ’ said David .
53 Right this minute now cos it 's quarter to nine already , we need to be getting going to school considering we were n't going five minutes ago and now we are !
54 Mm it 's quarter to ten already
55 Gosh di do you know it 's quarter to four !
56 Well I looked at that and I thought I thought well I 'm , I 'm sure it 's quarter to and checked on mine .
57 It 's quarter to seven .
58 It 's quarter to ten .
59 I was , I was quietly groaning away thinking oh God it 's quarter to eight thank God I have n't got ta get up .
60 There it 's got tunnels and it 's metal around the edge and it 's green three four three four three four to ring for a bash at Kids ' County and er we know it 's not the Major Oak cos that 's what they 've both guessed so far all right .
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