Example sentences of "it be [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS arguable that successive British Governments , although paying lip service from time to time to the notion of being able to change the institutions of the EEC ‘ from within ’ , have never in reality held out much hope of doing so ; rather , perhaps , has it been their true intent to use the institutions of the EEC to shape the policy of Europe in their own image . |
| 2 | Or had it been his sister ? |
| 3 | Might it be their working environment ? |
| 4 | Could it be their governments do not believe that the Iraqi regime will eventually be forced to make good the costs of the operation ? |
| 5 | But , if the Americans were going to make a mess of it , let it be their mess , not his . |
| 6 | . Let it be their responsibility , they put them in there . |
| 7 | Shall I make a guess at his special appeal — could it be his money ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Can it be his wife ? ’ |
| 9 | Would it be our own ? |
| 10 | So Mum said you know could it be my blood sugar level . |
| 11 | Each scrap of news any one of them had about themselves or their immediate family — child , husband , dog , cat , Bendix dishwasher , a new dress or pair of shoes , the price of every article they bought — was as fascinating to each other as if it were their very own ; and any little thing out of Great Meadow was pure binding . |
| 12 | Lawn owners have good reason for keeping clear consciences and generally living each day as through it were their last . |
| 13 | In The World 's Desire , Rider Haggard and his close friend Andrew Lang presented as it were their thesis of romance in a turgid tale based on certain theories of their time concerning possible trafficking between Achaean Greece , Crete and Egypt under the Ramessids . |
| 14 | I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape . |
| 15 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 16 | The community is a fictitious body , composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members . |
| 17 | Figure 1 A reed warbler feeding a young cuckoo as if it were its own offspring ( Photo : I. Wyllie ) . |
| 18 | A goose which follows a human being round as if it were its parent does not have its sexual behaviour anything like so disturbed ; when it grows up it will court other geese . |
| 19 | It was necessarily disturbed when the United States treated the United Nations as if it were its own exclusive " club " . |
| 20 | Harriet puts her head on Jen 's shoulder , her long straight strange hair fanning across Jen 's breast as if it were her own hair , and her own short , coppery/gingery hair stops standing on end at the ghost in the wood and begins to flow loose . |
| 21 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 22 | ‘ The trouble is she feels as if it were her fault . |
| 23 | A small , terrified child clutching a satchel with both arms as though it were her most prized possession . |
| 24 | On it were her confirmation cross and the farthing Rob had given her soon after they met . |
| 25 | Her breast felt hollow , as if it were her heart she had buried ; but she could move and speak , still . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope you 'll be at the funeral , ’ said Viola in her grand way , as if it were her show and there 'd be cocktails afterwards . |
| 27 | ’ Melissa was about to point out that Angy 's tender heart had not prevented her from flaunting Rick 's ring as if it were her own , nor had she intervened to protect Barney from hurt , but she merely said , ‘ It was enough to make anyone angry . ’ |
| 28 | He glared at her , as if it were her fault she could n't remember . |
| 29 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 30 | Clutching his sleeve , she said : ‘ Nahum , we could adopt a child and bring it up as if it were our own . ’ |