Example sentences of "it be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In it were all kinds of animals and birds . |
| 32 | eh , it were that lady come quick and he |
| 33 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 34 | It were that skirt were n't it ? |
| 35 | ‘ It were that doctor with the yellow hair , were n't it ? ’ she said . |
| 36 | ‘ She reckons it were that chap she worked for , the one what lives in one of they new houses here in Upper Benbury . ’ |
| 37 | Behind it were several sets of screens at different angles , behind which the stripogrammers or Boozebusters got changed . |
| 38 | er it were this mechanic who lives in who 's , who knows a good mate of Tony 's and he 's told Tony Tony told him like and he says right , he said leave the car to me . |
| 39 | He was studying it reverently , as if it were some breviary of tobacco . |
| 40 | Lying near it were some plates which had been washed and left to drain , and beside them stood the most delicate of porcelain cups . |
| 41 | But again the accent was on seniority : ‘ Commonly wee do not call any a yeoman till he be married , and have children , and as it were some authoritie among his neighbours ’ . |
| 42 | Condensation is an epidemic on this estate and usually the tenants are blamed , as though it were some kind of social disease , not a structural defect . |
| 43 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 44 | No it were some spy . |
| 45 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 46 | Usually , one then treats one set of relations as problematic and.simply assumes the existence of the other , as if it were some sort of indeterminate background noise or , more contentiously , assigns truth to one and falsity to the other . |
| 47 | People often treat science as if it were some sort of ‘ forbidden country ’ . |
| 48 | It was disguised as if it were some form of regional assistance , whereas it was bailing out uneconomic , old industries which ought to have been modernised . |
| 49 | as if it were any day . |
| 50 | So that 's nearer than , what it were half hour ago |
| 51 | A peculiar light seemed shed over everything , by dint of it being that house and no other ! |
| 52 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 53 | Well I do n't remember it being any hassle for me . |
| 54 | this year is it being these people must be given to understand , |
| 55 | Being so close it 's much beloved of families on a day 's outing , but is still an alpine hut for all that . |
| 56 | None of it 's much difference . |
| 57 | Their only hope now is that a buyer can be found who can afford vast sum , it will take to bring the building back to it 's former glory . |
| 58 | Sharpness docks is now a shadow of it 's former self . |
| 59 | This policy of ‘ cost optimisation ’ will be continued into the current year , he said , and should be helped by the relocation of Siemens Nixdorf 's parent company , Siemens AG , into UK headquarters in Bracknell — Siemens ' lease on it 's former site in Sunbury has now run out . |
| 60 | It 's piss-all information you had . |