Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war a man called Alec Howson in Barnard Castle ran the trips and it was with him that we went to Loch Lomond . |
| 2 | I think he favours an intimate setting , but , ’ and Simone laughed , ‘ I told him that engaged women only favour intimate settings when it 's with their fiancé . |
| 3 | The Lewisian thing about the first of his space stories is precisely its blend of literary originality and religious truth ; it is not ‘ theology ’ dressed up as ‘ literature ’ ; rather it makes its best literary effects when it is at its most religious because the religious matter is what most engages the author 's imagination . |
| 4 | We thus tend to think of ourselves as machines , and when things go wrong treatment is organized along similar lines as it is for our machines — servicing , repairing and patching as dictated by the appearance of aches , pains and loss of function . |
| 5 | It 's as difficult for the stewards as it is for us , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Parliament has placed the primary responsibility for their enforcement on local authorities and it is for them to decide their own course of action . |
| 7 | The Regulations are presently the responsibility of Building Control Officers within local authorities and it is to them that you should apply if you want to do any work which might be affected by the Regulations . |
| 8 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 9 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 10 | He worked there for nearly 40 years and it was in their Stockholm laboratories that he immediately took up Paneth and Peters ' idea . |
| 11 | In their original context both stories had a different significance , but it was as impossible for fourteenth century Christians to experience the Christian revelation in the same way as the first Christians as it is for us today . |
| 12 | Daniel , who spent £75 on new games and equipment , added : ‘ We had to wait for ages but it was worth it . ’ |
| 13 | Tacit collusion , on the other hand , would involve no explicit agreement but simply the unspoken acceptance by the two firms that it was in their best interests each to produce half the monopoly output on the understanding that failure to do so would provoke a price war . |
| 14 | It could scarcely be more vivid in their memories than it is in mine , but what is also vivid in my memory is the aftermath of those events , which was the Government 's sensible accommodation of the fears and anxieties that had been expressed . |
| 15 | The Incorporation of Weavers could not be more closely connected with carpets and it was under their aegis that Stoddard Templeton took part . |
| 16 | It may be worth saying , Tony that Graham 's already talked to officers and it 's worth your while talking to people on the house-to-house duty rota . |
| 17 | " Senga , you will not talk to strangers unless it is within my presence . |
| 18 | The process is much more serious for primitive society , however , for getting older in this sort of world is not just a question of securing certain basic legal rights as it is for us , but is fundamentally concerned with acquiring prestige . |
| 19 | But I personally think it 's more universal to tune guitars to chords than it is to anything else . ’ |
| 20 | According to a married 35-year-old credit manager : ‘ At our school we were all approaching our 16th birthdays and it was like anyone who reaches 16 and he 's still a virgin — what a nancy . |
| 21 | I have listed these processes because it was through their operation that Tyneside 's industrial proletariat was created . |
| 22 | The Evangelical Alliance is canny in hoping it.can win similar victories by persuading publishers that it is in their commercial interest to avoid offending decent consumers . |
| 23 | We need to remember that it is no more natural for women to live longer than men than it is for them to have lower incomes , to expect to give up work if their men wish it at marriage or in later life , to be the keepers of family memory , the main carers of those in need , the main sufferers from the empty nest as children leave home . |
| 24 | Because it 's in our hands , it 's in our children 's hands and it 's in our grandchildren 's hands . |
| 25 | I would say with you to the good Lord ‘ spare me from Mr Kinnock 's gaze , hold on tight to the tablets of stone lest they should fall on this hapless servant 's head , may there be no rock so small that I can not shelter behind it out of Mr Kinnock 's sight , keep the rod and staff of Socialism firmly in your hands lest it be upon my back that it should be broken . |
| 26 | For it is the personality of Law that has remained as elusive to historians as it was to his own contemporaries . |
| 27 | The MRC contained radical SR members but was dominated by Bolsheviks and it was through it that the October uprising was planned . |
| 28 | The ‘ bits of wood ’ of the title are a colloquial term for human beings and it is through their eyes , and their culture , that the story unfolds . |
| 29 | but they were all to do with sort of satellite dishes and it was in their reception area and it had satellite T V on , and it was an advertising thing as much |
| 30 | I find , however , that the sequence between the first and last is as regular and constant in those other cases as it is in mine . |