Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nottinghamshire County Council wo n't confirm what the latest allegations are about but it 's been reported that they centre on fraud and sexual harassment at Redoaks . |
| 2 | Nottinghamshire County Council wo n't confirm what the latest allegations are about but it 's reported that they centre on fraud and sexual abuse at Redoaks . |
| 3 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 4 | She wanted to be happy with him and for everything to be as it had been before but it did n't seem possible . |
| 5 | What would love be for if it did n't solve everything ? |
| 6 | I 'm not really worried about it to be honest I 'm not worried about any of them , I thought I would actually be erm I 'm actually , we 're under a lot of pressure at the moment but I 'm not actually , usually when I 'm like that it 's all gone I tend to say well forget about it and you know run away from it kind of thing , |
| 7 | If you have decided that you want to change things in your life , first you must be able to imagine what your life would be like if it were different . |
| 8 | Please ! ’ she begged , all pride gone and only the shadow left , the thought of what it would be like if it swallowed her up and he should leave her wrenching the words from between her lips . |
| 9 | It 's as if it 's too powerful for choreographers to cope with . |
| 10 | It 's as if it 's what I should have worn all along . |
| 11 | ‘ Sometimes , it 's as if it takes a breathing space . ’ |
| 12 | It 's as if it 's always been . |
| 13 | It 's as if it 's one of the bastions of of male power ! |
| 14 | It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner . |
| 15 | It 's as if it never happened . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's as if it had a mind of its own ’ , ’ Grimma read . |
| 17 | And it 's as if it was n't floating on the surface and it was doing all the things that fishes do but it was |
| 18 | In the end , the argument is about whether it is worth the cost of reflecting capital values in the accounts . |
| 19 | It is as if it is walking through a minefield . |
| 20 | All over Europe they react to it as if it 's a massive hit ; as soon as we start this thing the applause is as if it 's one of your hit singles ! |
| 21 | It 's like that it 's in the dark so when you push that but there are n't many batteries left so |
| 22 | I get her head and you know Beetlejuice when he goes I got ta show you it cos sometimes she 's , she 's not alert and when she 's like that it looks wicked cos he goes and her ears are like that she goes and I get her to play the banjo and she goes it 's wicked ! |
| 23 | Where it differs , is in that it makes a serious effort to put the bits back together again ! |
| 24 | However , this is only on procedural grounds and not , as in the United States , on the merits of the decision , that is on whether it conforms to the judicial view of what the constitution requires . |
| 25 | I suppose it erm did widen so , the the wider view on that is at that it is important that we carry out the possible appliance testing on a regular basis . |
| 26 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 27 | There 's the erm er the value of the contract per year , there 's a first year you know it 's just the the co cost of the ad thirty percent that 's what the commission was worth and it 's nice to come out with a signature for a erm and this was a charity one so they got it slightly less , erm er and know that you 've just earned yourself that much . |
| 28 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 29 | The moment Ferdinando left , with only the most cursory of farewells , to go by train and boat to Rome in advance of the main Party , the icy wind which had swept through the city most unexpectedly throughout October suddenly dropped and it was as if it were summer again . |
| 30 | It was as if it was only when the surf was at its most savage that the ghost of Eddie Aikau could be expected to revisit the Bay . |