Example sentences of "[det] be [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The probable significance of all this is that it is mistaken to attempt to generalize about employers ' attitudes to young workers . |
| 2 | This is because it 's packed to bursting point with blood . |
| 3 | The company claims this is because it 's designed for first-time users , but it 's a nuisance if you want to import a mailing list from another package . |
| 4 | This is because it is considered such a minor part of the hobby , with just a couple of species available , Monos and Scats . |
| 5 | This is because it is thought the human brain is not preprogrammed to recognize all the senses separately , but learns to correlate them in childhood . |
| 6 | This was because it was acting in a public capacity . |
| 7 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |
| 8 | However , the predicate displays at least one of the characteristics of a semantic dependant , and that is that it is expected to bring to the construction semantic traits not encapsulated in the subject ; furthermore , in cases of pleonasm , it is the predicate whose specificity must be increased to achieve normality : |
| 9 | That is unless it 's sold to the sort of person who blasts half of his land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of on the west coast . |
| 10 | That 's before it was smashed up . |
| 11 | " I ca n't make this out , " I say ( as myself , not the alien ) , to which several children respond : " No , that 's because it 's written in the alien 's language . " |
| 12 | If it sounds like the opening words of an episode of Star Trek , that 's because it 's aimed at attracting schoolchildren to the world of science . |
| 13 | That 's because it 's going round in a circle — like the Shuttle , and me on my space walk . |
| 14 | Firstly the criteria for the mean electorate size for a European parliamentary constituency has previously been used as a justification for ignoring the case for Cornwall , yet concessions have been made in other areas establishing such constituencies that do not meet the size requirement an that 's because it is accepted that European parliamentary constituencies should be created along the lines of natural communities , communities of identity and communities of interest . |
| 15 | I have n't heard of anyone dying from a broken ankle — that 's if it is broken . ’ |
| 16 | Well that 's cos it 's going down . |
| 17 | but that was n't with flood water coming over , that was because it was coming up the drains , cos it could n't drain into the river |