Example sentences of "it be [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rescuers fell silent as they listened to the hymn from deep in the earth and few who heard it were without tears in their eyes or lumps in their throats . |
| 2 | Much more difficult for a woman because by the time a woman 's got into her forties , her child rearing erm career is usually rather short and even if she wants to continue , it becomes much more hazardous for her and for her offspring , so er in , in the case of erm modern societies with erm monogamy bu but divorce as we have , you ca n't help thinking that to some extent the , the odds are , are loaded in the favour of men as it were in terms of their reproductive success . |
| 3 | And I would say it 's on highways with your traffic on the access and on parking , and added that to the list , I did n't say that in the first instant . |
| 4 | It 's like bells in my ears . |
| 5 | Yet nationally , as we know , it is committed — indeed , it is under instructions from its confereence — to cut defence spending by £6 billion . |
| 6 | It says it is in discussions with its ACE partners about Alpha , but continues to hesitate to formally offer it as still another hardware platform for ACE to absorb . |
| 7 | I shall call it an experiential explanation , because it is in terms of our experiences . |
| 8 | Every minute she was in the house where she had spent most of her life , crowded as it was with memories of her parents and her grandfather , made it more difficult to bear up . |
| 9 | Although they enjoyed the session provided , it was at odds with their expectations . |