Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter . |
| 2 | Rather than just muddle on as I was before it was highlighted and said well these need watching . |
| 3 | But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ? |
| 4 | in which he says that erm the more convinced that she is that it 's going to be fatal in its operation , the more determined apparently she is that Adam shall share . |
| 5 | On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily . |
| 6 | It 's like it 's flashing in my head . |
| 7 | Some days , it 's too misty and it 's like it 's vanished altogether . |
| 8 | No I do n't think it 's that , I think it 's cos it 's getting near the end of the tape . |
| 9 | So it 's if it 's coming up |
| 10 | But let us be clear about just what it is that it is seeing . |
| 11 | The disparity between the revenue raised by the BBC in Scotland and the resources allocated by London to Scotland , reported today , highlights just how crucial is the debate over the BBC 's charter and how vital it is that it is made much more prominent in Scottish life . |
| 12 | Not sure it is cos it 's baking . |
| 13 | It is because it is applied recursively at the growing tips all over the tree — branches make sub-branches , then each sub-branch makes sub-sub-branches , and so on — that the whole tree ends up large and bushy . |
| 14 | If these approaches are common to courses of study which advanced degree students follow regardless of the content ( for some will be specializing , for instance , in the field of special educational needs , others in the arts and humanities , others in mathematics and science ) it is because it is regarded as essential that the same grasp of knowledge and the same development of intellectual-cum-practical skill should typify all holders of a second degree in the field of education . |
| 15 | It is as it was designed and made to be , for the artist has had leisure to add beauty to use . |
| 16 | They also had in mind that the platform could be removed , leaving the warehouse in substantially the same state as it was before it was installed . |
| 17 | It is tempting to see these works as belonging to a formidable and sustained effort to return the history of science to where it was before it was invaded by what Hall may see as sociologizing and ‘ hermeticizing ’ interlopers . |
| 18 | Ah ah it was but it was sanctioned but we had to sign a contract with them . |
| 19 | An order was made under section 4(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 postponing publication or report of certain details of the proceedings until after the conclusion of all 24 numbered indictments in a schedule , when it would be announced in open court by Judge McMullan that the order had expired ; the order stated that the purpose of making it was that it was adjudged to be necessary to avoid a substantive risk of prejudice to the administration of justice in other pending proceedings . |
| 20 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 21 | It was as it was represented , not rusty , and essentially intact . |
| 22 | In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues . |