Example sentences of "it be a [noun] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Israel did not detonate a weapon prior to 1967 , but currently possesses nuclear weapons , it would be in violation of the treaty if it were a signatory to it and would be legally obliged to destroy its stockpile and to end its nuclear programme . |
| 2 | It 's a satire on it 's very clever actually ! |
| 3 | It 's a bit like it is n't it ? |
| 4 | erm she 's got a family Margaret , she said she wo n't go there any more she I , I do n't know whether that er Jean does so Did n't she just cotton on quickly , she said do you know that , I said why do I want anybody wandering in my house and my kitchen , I said it 's a bit like it 's clean , why should I have somebody sort of , well I mean just because I 'm doing cooking , she said you would n't stop fancy one , you never know , she said well unless you want to stop at the , please do n't , you 'll let me still have your jam wo n't you ? |
| 5 | Terrible , it 's a problem in it ? |
| 6 | They 've all these people in receptions or whatever is you know it 's a rip off it 's a con all the rest of it . |
| 7 | It 's a reaction to it . |
| 8 | And there was poor Fred , speaking up for the reviled council block in which he , unlike any of the others , lived : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad , it 's a lot of it exaggeration , ’ he interposed mildly , as Steve repeated the time-worn allegation that it was n't safe to walk under the deck walkways for fear of having a television set or an old mattress chucked on your head : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad at all . ’ |
| 9 | to say well if it 's a lot of it 's erm maybe there 's quite a lot of figure work or something |
| 10 | no , think where it is ? , two lane traffic , where is it ? , it 's a carriageway in it ? |
| 11 | and it is a case of it 's , it 's problems from the radiation treatment |
| 12 | It is not a mere means to X + Y , since it is a part of it , but still the 90 degrees of value are not its value . |
| 13 | so it , it is a sort of it 's a kind of sort of liveish topic it 's sort of in one of those stages where it 's not actually happening yet because a |
| 14 | It is a sort of it seems like almost a national characteristic , and after a while you get used to it again , but it is that is something which really does strike Americans when they come here . |
| 15 | It is also fair to say , and I must be up front about this because it is a matter of it is probably the most sensitive aspect of this whole debate , is about B eight warehousing and distribution . |
| 16 | The proposition that they sprinted up the hill is not equivalent to the proposition that they ran up the hill , but it is an interpretation of it in the sense that it shares certain contextual implications . |
| 17 | I think it was a combination of it was an okay movie , but it was also a wonderful subject , a wonderful subject . |
| 18 | Many rural authorities followed the example of Cambridgeshire village colleges inspired by Henry Morris , the chief education officer , so that Devon , Somerset and Leicestershire all wrote the notion into their development plans and did actually build some , which would support the argument that the major move towards equality that was achieved by the 1944 Education Act was the diminution of the gap between rural and urban children — this was not Butler 's two nations becoming one but it was a step towards it . |
| 19 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 20 | It was an indication of It facing both ways , torn between a youth culture stumbling around politics and the embers of 1967 . |