Example sentences of "it be [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah well you know it 's okay well you know I well you know yeah it 's just that it worried me about this meeting here and three people out of the five people in the room did n't realise that it was a reservations and booking service . |
| 2 | It 's just that it does som sometimes seem |
| 3 | There is no reason why computers should n't be natural and friendly , it 's just that it takes a lot more memory in the computer to have all the complex rules of an ordinary language , and also it 's much harder to write the programs that tell the computer how to understand a natural language . |
| 4 | It 's not hard , it 's just that it fell off my stick . |
| 5 | Erm it 's just that it throws you a bit if you 've learnt them that way . |
| 6 | It 's just that it seems a pity for him to reveal his identity . |
| 7 | They may think it 's just because it contains a reference to the Khedive 's family . ’ |
| 8 | Today I tried to get a whole tin every day , it 's just because it happened . |
| 9 | They can be interested on the central questions , if the central questions are sent in a framework that they do understand , and perhaps it 's best when it 's done by somebody who is bold , not afraid of being amateurish , not afraid of being controversial , because theology erm is a world that can mean obfuscation . |
| 10 | She says it 's too far to travel , but I think it 's really because it costs too much . ’ |
| 11 | It 's only if it goes in and you 've got no angle |
| 12 | Only it 's only cos it has n't got the extra |
| 13 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 14 | It is simply that it left us stranded . |
| 15 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 16 | It is past before it has scarce begun . |
| 17 | It is here that it seems to me that there are basic problems which are not thought through , and moreover that moves are made which are deceptive , in that they give the impression that a solution has been found where in fact the main issue has not been tackled . |
| 18 | It is also that it has failed to regain the support of the working class — old and new — that it lost in 1979 . |
| 19 | This was the language of the Conservative Right , and it is seldom that it synchronizes with the tenets of the reformist Left . |
| 20 | The case against it is precisely that it purports to explain the whole of history and , for that matter , of pre-history , by reference to a total system , and so denies to any of its implicated parts ( social , economic , racial , geographical , religious and so on ) as well as to the actions of its great or good men any separate authenticity . |
| 21 | This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee . |
| 22 | Whenever in relation to a loved person , idealized place or personal indulgence I find myself pushing out of mind some disagreeable thought , its relevance ( as distinct from its importance ) is not in doubt ; it is enough that it does spontaneously move me against what I have decided for . |
| 23 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 24 | It is then that it becomes a natural magnetic recorder . |
| 25 | It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed . |
| 26 | It was here that it had all started , she thought . |
| 27 | It was here when it started and the ward was empty and I 've watched it fill up , and now I 'm watching it empty again . |
| 28 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 29 | It was best when it felt like you were fighting gravity , fighting the pull of forces greater than yourselves . |
| 30 | It was exactly as it had been drawn in the family for generations . |