Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it be [adj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe it was locked away in the studio or maybe it was true he had nothing there .
2 It is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it which is the consent of the majority or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body , one community which the consent of every individual that united into it agreed that it should and so everyone is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority .
3 Are n't you going to claim that the spider must have been disturbed when the undergrowth was cleared and so it was all my fault ? ’
4 He says ; Up and downstairs it is terrible I have to have two bars to pull me up and some people have to change to flats .
5 I said , we 'll have to first time and yet it 's all he wants and he was gon na take a day 's pay off .
6 In 1168 the Lusignans were nothing like as rich or powerful as the Counts of Angoulême , who ruled what was in effect an independent principality in the heart of Aquitaine , and yet it was Lusignan which seems to have been the storm centre of the revolt .
7 But perhaps it 's easier I wonder what are other factors of two hundred and fifty two ?
8 I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’
9 ‘ I was hoping for platinum-blonde , or red , but now it 's dry I find it 's plain old mouse . ’
10 Past interviews have portrayed him as dour , introverted and something of a depressive , but now it 's obvious he has turned that corner and views the world in a thoroughly positive light .
11 But then it was this I thought any minute it 's gon na be Somewhere over the Rainbow .
12 It should have brought us closer together , but instead it was like we did n't know each other any more , as if we were complete strangers .
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