Example sentences of "it be [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had it been something more subtle , a pledge that , despite everything , they were allies , that he understood her priorities and would make them his ? |
| 2 | Er had it been something that you 'd long sought after you know , like like in the mines where it had been an issue for some years ? |
| 3 | Had it been anyone other than Marty , I 'd never have spent every weekend preparing and refining the script , then repeating it as I did . |
| 4 | Yet had it been anyone else — I would have guessed . |
| 5 | The catapult is an Inside thing , requiring that you and it are one . |
| 6 | Which system we would have to decide , who draws up the list er would the list be a U K one , a regional one or would it be one in the separate countries that go to make up the U K. A huge amount of discussion there , not a chance missed at all , er he wanted a separate seat for for Cornwall . |
| 7 | " Might it be nothing more than a girl ? " |
| 8 | Yeah I definitely think she ought to have have a check up better to have a check you and it be nothing , than just keep hanging on saying it 'll go away and it does n't , it just gets worse . |
| 9 | ‘ Could it be somebody working for Connelly with an axe to grind ? ’ asked Martin Bates , running his finger around the rim of his glass . |
| 10 | Let it be something which is in complete contrast to the way you normally spend your time . |
| 11 | If their special property is not to be found in their trigger features , might it be something about their projective zones ? |
| 12 | Work back in your mind to the possible source of any abrasion — could it be something with a rough edge in the pond , or are there ectoparasites ( ie Argulus ) breaking the skin ? |
| 13 | Would n't it be something if you both knew that ? ’ |
| 14 | And preferably , let it be something concerning himself . ’ |
| 15 | Can it be anything , or what ? |
| 16 | Could it be anything more than a compulsion to take the eternal conflict between the sexes to the ultimate battleground ? |
| 17 | Or would it be someone else ? |
| 18 | Why should it be someone else ? |
| 19 | Erm oh I asked him about that when I went and he said it were nothing to worry about , it 's just |
| 20 | The first is a belief that education consists of the transmission of ‘ male ’ knowledge ; that is , that what is taught in schools is simply an account of male experience presented as though it were everybody 's experience . |
| 21 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 22 | There is a tendency for people to approach this matter as though it were one entirely for the shipyard concerned . |
| 23 | Thought it were one he fetched down . |
| 24 | This piece of advice might suggest that his grasp of the ‘ new psychology ’ was still at the rudimentary stage , since he speaks of a neurosis as if it were something avoidable . |
| 25 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 26 | One nice Tory gentleman tells me ‘ I 've done this for all the parties in my time , you know , ’ as if it were something to be proud of . |
| 27 | I do not mean that there is not a valid distinction to be drawn between sense and sentence ; only that it is a mistake to think of the sense of an utterance as though it were something existing alongside the utterance but in the ethereal medium of the mind . |
| 28 | But it was n't actually , it were something else , and people were finding that their goods were repossessed because they could n't keep up the payments . |
| 29 | Seeing how the boy stared at Hammond 's hand a moment before tentatively offering his own , how he studied the meeting of their hands , as if it were something wholly new to him , Spatz understood . |
| 30 | A gang of black workers wearing white loincloths faced the camera gravely , looking as if it were something they might be given to eat . |