Example sentences of "[that] it be [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Another feeling , which is much more likely if you talk about my character , would be that I ca n't give anything more to this ensemble , that it 's time for someone fresher to guide these people in the right direction .
2 She never forgets that it 's Howard to whom they all owe their place in the new order of things .
3 Putting an element in rheme position means that it is part of what the speaker has to say , and that is the very core of any message .
4 At best , any reading of line A is bound to be provisional ; the precise sense of the " grass " image that it is grass in its aspect of impermanence ( absence of ) awaits a reading of line B.
5 People like Mr Falk are trained and I would have thought that it is people like him who should be involved in such programmes .
6 That it is time for us to take our rightful place .
7 Oh , yes , yes , but there there was certainly a time when , er universities , schools and even business companies , thought that it was part of their erm , their way of supporting society in general , that they gave time to go out and give talks .
8 I was famous at 18 so knew early on that it was part of my job description . ’
9 It came at him again , and he could just make out that it was part of his bunk , one of the side panels .
10 He had n't really understood that it was work to her .
11 Nor to tell her that it was women like her who prevented girls doing well in sciences .
12 Diplomatically she accepted it would be better not to mention that it was jealousy about her ideas .
13 I could see that it was time for me to make the tea .
14 We had several until I decided that it was time for me to sit on her lap .
15 I knew when I woke that it was time for me to return .
16 When Iris announced that it was time for them to return , Jack insisted on walking them back .
17 The beeper alarm on Diane 's watch sounded as they were driving back , the signal that it was time for her to go and collect the litterbug Jed from his minder .
18 For all his enjoyment of the work and the companionship of his team the lad was not sorry when the ground covered , about half an acre , showed that it was time for his midday snack .
19 There was once a king who decided that it was time for his son to marry .
20 Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election .
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