Example sentences of "it be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |
| 2 | George Costakis owns the world 's most distinguished private collection of Russian avant-garde art , and 22 important works from it are being offered for sale at Sotheby 's on 4 April . |
| 3 | One by one , the arguments that were said to justify it are being abandoned . |
| 4 | Flanking him as it were is the wife of another familiar figure and quintet member , Virginsky . |
| 5 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 6 | But he remained general manager of the Southern Region , almost as it were being his own superior . |
| 7 | A little earlier when they 'd listened to the Army vehicle 's wireless her hearing had been so acute that every syllable spoken sounded as if it were being shouted directly into her ear . |
| 8 | Oscars , by contrast , are handed out to an industry that thrives on glittering events and spends money as if it were being withdrawn from circulation tomorrow . |
| 9 | All the men in it were being held ‘ on suspicion ’ under the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Powers ) Act . |
| 10 | On the other hand , although the machine was in need of a re-fit , the Enlightenment principles that guided and supported it were being increasingly reinforced by changes in philosophy and science . |
| 11 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 12 | Her body felt as if it were being wrapped in very , very tight bandages . |
| 13 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 14 | So that it would if it were were just like a trough . |
| 15 | I think the worst of all locations would be a , would be one where the new settlement would be catering for the needs of Leeds , if it were were located along the A sixty four corridor , South South South of York . |
| 16 | We believe that St Albans er has a traffic problem facing it in recent years , two or three year 's ago at the height of activity er the problems facing it were were more obvious and along with that situation er there 's no question about that and one might be forgetting to thinking the problem and not the way it has n't , it will return now , we know it will be return and therefore we should be firm in our resolve and at some point in time in the future that problem must be addressed sensibly for the good of the people of St Albans . |
| 17 | If it were , it were snow all it were were your aerial |
| 18 | But the reason as it were was to address some of the issues er that Professor Lock has raised . |
| 19 | The father , for reasons put forward by Miss McCreath connected with his own situation and his wish to as it were be forgiven for his past behaviour , and in the hopes of showing that he can in the future notwithstanding his past behaviour be contemplated as somebody to play a röle in the life of his children , supports the making of an interim care order or does not oppose it because he acknowledges that there should be supervision by the plaintiffs . |
| 20 | It 's is n't it ? |
| 21 | Very very angry cos to tell try and tell the truth and not believes is it 's is wrong . |
| 22 | And it 's is n't it ? |
| 23 | It 's is n't it ? |
| 24 | It 's is n't it ? |
| 25 | I in fact would very quickly er in orange just ran the an orange pin up along the line of the one three six three as you will see , it 's is primarily within , with primarily within Hambledon district . |
| 26 | It 's is not er er so much a lost leader , it was an incentive negotiated into the contract for industry to make progress . |
| 27 | if people ca n't recognise possessive pronoun in that the it 's is short for it is , er , somebody ought to check it because it , it lets the whole thing down . |
| 28 | The coal-house part it 's is quite wide now we 've done it , big coal-house , but altered |
| 29 | It 's is a drink snowball , might as well put snowball do n't mind do you ? |
| 30 | Yeah it 's , it 's is n't it ? |