Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [be] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 2 | The Inland Revenue treats a scrip dividend as if it was cash income . |
| 3 | She had thrown on an old dress and not much else , and she played with the frying-pan as if it were Pancake Day . |
| 4 | Prepared small group work can similarly be viewed in context as if it were video material , or plays acted out — showing , for example , the bravest thing they have ever done . |
| 5 | Their sleep disturbed , their murmured resentment rises into a wind , stirring up the packed clay of the wasteground as if it were desert sand . |
| 6 | Not as if it were Mr James giving a treat . |
| 7 | I 'd heard Dad and Eva in the bar analysing the performance as if it were Miles Davis 's farewell appearance . |
| 8 | That support will undoubtedly be forthcoming for while it is Frank Holden today , who knows , into the future , who will be put into a similar predicament if the Bank is allowed to get away with its present unreasonable stance . |
| 9 | Well they used to but it 's self service is n't it and that 's a another thing . |
| 10 | Well it er it will be wood but whether it 's covered over whether it 's wood grain or whether it 's white or I do n't know . |
| 11 | When I was speaking t very very briefly erm to Ian before before I came down he said , well I 'm really not surprised , the the the continuing problem and difficulty in establishing what 's on the palette , as to whether it 's lawn feed and weed , lawn feed and , for example . |
| 12 | As for whether it was hunt saboteurs or home-going Christmas drunks , the station will make all possible enquiries . |