Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] it be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was entirely appropriate the outcome of this confrontation should reach it 's conclusion on the eve of November 5 . |
| 2 | No I think they 'll mean it 's number of stamps . |
| 3 | We 'll put it 's sign in front of it so we can just make sure of that . |
| 4 | I 'm sure you 'll find it 's food for thought . |
| 5 | If I believed in anything , I 'd say it was part of a divine plan . ’ |
| 6 | You would think it was cause for a massive celebration . |
| 7 | I would make it is squares of fairly course cotton eyelet lace with a simple crochet edging , perhaps with alternate large squares of lace and plain knitting . |
| 8 | IF you ever lost track of time you would know it was Christmas from the barrage of sickly singles pumped out to cash in on the season of goodwill . |
| 9 | Er the second polygyny where you have one male and then females and here reproductive success erm meaning that there 's a large again you 'll have the males who 'll have the large reproductive success than males who have none at all and erm of course often differences between male and female because the male has and the male has opportunities to erm try to control success rate the female biological and er consequently with this kind of system from female choice and male competition and er are about eighty percent and er polygamy is when you have many males and many females and er is also and er I would assume it 's kind of like males have opportunities . |
| 10 | He would begin , presumably , by noting the larger-scale features of context : what channel is being used ( we shall say speech ) , what language code is being used ( we shall specify it is English ) , what message-form is being performed ( we shall specify it is conversation ) , what event is it embedded in ( we shall specify it is part of an interview ) . |
| 11 | Most of the signals are only noted subconsciously but , with a little effort , it is quite easy to become more aware of them so that , should a warning bell ring at the back of your head , you will know it is time to be careful . |
| 12 | How do you think in the next year or two Oxford university will develop it 's ways of dealing with this ? |
| 13 | The bit where he like jumping on the lake they 've cut away a bit of the platform so the only way you can do it is jump onto this bit of wood then fly , and literally he was like that , just going in mid air and landed right in the water ! |