Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a minute or two earlier you were saying things like : ‘ It 's just a sort of a , a sort of a , a , a , a question of as it were sort of behaving sort of , well , for want of a better word , decently , sort of thing . ’ |
| 2 | A certain proportion remains unaccounted for and it is part of this that is claimed to be the product of investment in education and health . |
| 3 | I think that 's , I mean I think that 's why the , the two interesting ends of the U K press are the tabloid end , because it looks , it looks as if it 's sort of forged in the heat of hot metal and steaminess and erm the top end and things like the Express and The Mail seem to be entirely flabby in the middle . |
| 4 | The whole scene to my informant was as clear as a bell , but on reflection it would seem as if it was part of an earlier railway system . |
| 5 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 6 | and with as if it was chicken with erm parsley thyme stuffing |
| 7 | Digital Equipment Corp and Encore Computer Corp have advanced their Alpha RISC-centred collaboration , and DEC says it will incorporate and distribute the Fort Lauderdale company 's high-speed Memory Channel , which directly links the memory subsystems of multiple node processors , and Infinity File System , which enables processors to view data stored on the disks of all the CPUs in a cluster as if it were part of a single database . |
| 8 | Digital Equipment Corp and Encore Computer Corp have advanced their Alpha RISC-centred collaboration , and DEC says it will incorporate and distribute the Fort Lauderdale company 's high-speed Memory Channel , which directly links the memory subsystems of multiple node processors , and Infinity File System , which enables processors to view data stored on the disks of all the CPUs in a cluster as if it were part of a single database . |
| 9 | The word was spoken as if it were part of a mystery too arcane to be rapidly solved . |
| 10 | ‘ But it 's not right , ’ said Lydia Horton , looking around the dreary little back-street surgery in the least attractive part of Oswaldston as if it were part of her grievance . |
| 11 | So you end up with a particle if you look at that it 's particles about two or three mills square . |