Example sentences of "it [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remains of a rare Roman lighthouse and the restored Anglo-Saxon church beside it are remainders of earlier times . |
| 2 | What to do , how to do it and when to do it are instructions passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next . |
| 3 | Inequality and the response to it are themes of many geographical and political studies . |
| 4 | On either side of it are wells which are never dry ; one is now the Museum 's wishing well . |
| 5 | At about this time Mr. Tee did have some connection with Winchester , but the extent of that connection and what was to remain of it are matters in dispute between the parties . |
| 6 | He reflected the view of my constituents when he said that crime and how to reduce it are matters for the Government . |
| 7 | In it are paintings which refer to some of the literary works which the group has mined for material in the past Kafka 's America and Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter as well as new ones such as Pinocchio and Alice in Wonderland . |
| 8 | The fundamental one is that as a result of the mathematization of physical science , what importantly occurs in it are equations or formulae of several kinds , propositions to the effect that one set of magnitudes is related in a certain way to another set or sets . |
| 9 | At the Mediterranean end , the inhabitants on either side of it are Catalans and very aware of the historical and linguistic bonds which transcend the national frontier ; while at the northern , Atlantic end they are Basques , similarly aware of their distinctiveness as a people . |
| 10 | The only people we know who do it are Cosmetics to Go , the mail order firm that brings you such exuberant delights as Filboid Studge Asparagus Mask and Goop Liquid Eyeliner . |
| 11 | In it are examples of his installation work and some object sculptures , among them ‘ Bureau Couvert de Mules ’ of 1966 and another work from the Sixties which consists of a stuffed parrot in a glass case with an accompanying text and a tape-loop of sound . |
| 12 | They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras . |
| 13 | Thus we are still using the Darwinian model of evolution by natural selection , but the entities to which we are applying it are populations , or species , and not individuals as in most applications of the idea . |
| 14 | This is an area of human emotion so fraught with difficulty that attitudes to it are poles apart . |
| 15 | Contrasted with it are explanations which explicitly subordinate individuals to social factors of one sort or another . |
| 16 | Will it be Millwall , or will it be Spurs ? ’ and here 's what she said to me : ‘ Son , you 're a West Ham fan and that 's the way you 'll stay . |
| 17 | And will it be curtains for Coombs in Swindon ? |
| 18 | Could it be wedding-bells for you soon ? ’ |
| 19 | Could it be royals also need a spare , |
| 20 | Would it be peas or beans ? |
| 21 | Would it be grounds for denying access ? |
| 22 | Will it be assets or shares in an established company or a hive-down company ? |
| 23 | He says that if it were rats which were passing on TB to cattle there would be no hesitation : the rats would be killed . |
| 24 | Free indirect style is a mode of narration which as it were fuses and interweaves the authorial narrator 's speech and the speech of the character . |
| 25 | Yes I think there 's some , yeah yeah I , I think there 's , that 's one of the , the areas where er as it were attitudes are most small C conservative , that er sort of liberal heterosexuals whom I know er you know are often quite suspicious of that . |
| 26 | Bel-Shamharoth was especially attracted to dabblers in magic who , by being as it were beachcombers on the shores of the unnatural , were already half-enmeshed in his nets . |
| 27 | If it did start up , the Ariadne would ride more comfortably if it were bows on to it . |
| 28 | There was a great lake and on it were flamingos like the ones you see every day on Three Island Pond . |
| 29 | As they moved cautiously towards it , Fenella saw that it had opened for them just the smallest sliver and that beyond it were shards of light . |
| 30 | Well I know er it were Wednesdays Joyce used to come in . |