Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [be] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean there are some Conservatives who do actually believe in the social welfare of the but there are also , I 'm I 'm sure there are large numbers who actually know what vicious streak there is behind a lot of the other measures of social control that have gone on in this country since consensus was in nineteen seventy nine er you actually realise what what a tragedy it is in this area . |
| 2 | The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours . |
| 3 | It 's just like an inverse it 's of that number |
| 4 | In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement . |
| 5 | Moreover , if there was maladministration it is of little consequence now in that the new regime established by the Financial Services Act of 1986 has rendered the DTI 's role in this matter redundant . |
| 6 | As a symbolic act it was of much importance since it offered the prospect of a framework for a wider Anglo-Irish settlement and provided a hope of genuine political involvement for the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland , not in a failed local assembly but through their co-religionists in the south . |
| 7 | So he has accepted an offer to drive the new Vector at Silverstone , but insists at the moment it is for this race only . |
| 8 | A the moment it is in most cases just about possible to say that , according to a family history , a certain risk exists . |
| 9 | She just sat on the stairs eating biscuit after biscuit until , just before midnight , the telephone rang and she heard the voice of the surgeon telling her that the operation was over , that it had been a complete success and that Paul was likely to make a rapid recovery It was after that call that Annette realised that she had steadily munched her way through two and a half packets of biscuits . |
| 10 | It 's not from a chip shop it 's from that Londis shop . |
| 11 | What humbug it is for some Opposition Members to say that one should buy British and then travel around in foreign cars . |
| 12 | In this paper it is on these dimensions as they can exist between sets of managers and workers ( as systems ) that I focus . |
| 13 | She had a feeling it was in that carpet-bag , but could n't get at the bag . |
| 14 | Sooner , rather than later , and generally after a few stiff drams , Joicey would break into the Gaelic , roaring and shouting at the top of his voice : ‘ Man to man it was in those days . |
| 15 | Perhaps you could sing that little song it 's in this Songs of Fellowship , it 's number seventy three . |
| 16 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 17 | of the day I do n't which government it was at that time cos it was in the fifties okayed it and |
| 18 | towards these yeah it 's not full and final settlement it 's towards these payments . |
| 19 | The reason it 's in this format , is this is now the national standard form of accounts for social services , and the thinking behind it is , whether you were an authority that provided all of its services directly at one extreme , or at the other extreme , you were in a party that provided no direct services , and bought them all in from other providers , you would still need to meet , to meet those costs . |
| 20 | And what a fitting end it was to this season 's cup campaign . |
| 21 | Either way it is of little use to the bereft locked full of raw grief , which might one day mature into something more bearable , and might not . |
| 22 | ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ would n't have been half the phenomenon it was without that promo vid . |
| 23 | Yeah but not but it 's not for school it 's for some people outside school , it 's a sort of |
| 24 | However , financial security is no longer the problem it was for most people ; welfare systems ensure survival . |
| 25 | The user of the vehicle is the owner of the vehicle or the person in whose possession it is under some hiring or leasing agreement ; this is often not the driver himself but the driver 's employer or principal . |
| 26 | I 'm not saying you may not lose a few good people but on balance it 's worth that sacrifice rather than pursue an enforced redundancy policy . |
| 27 | It is evident that change has not been achieved as rapidly as desired , and to a large extent it is for this reason . |
| 28 | I was saying this morning , in fact it was on This Morning , or Good Morning , or |
| 29 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |