Example sentences of "[noun sg] it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the deal the debt covered by the relief package traded at $19 billion on the secondary market ; after the deal it was worth $19.1 billion-$19.9 billion . |
| 2 | For brevity it is worth using these little symbols which are easy to learn . |
| 3 | In all its unmistakable force it was before him . |
| 4 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 5 | After the official closure it was with mixed emotions that we took our leave of Wadeville . |
| 6 | Er cos it 's not actually Dunfermline , the golf club it 's at er . |
| 7 | He 'd ask you what club it was without giving you a clue what he was thinking . |
| 8 | In the corridor she had passed compartments full of young men playing cards , who looked up and appraised her face and figure with impersonal interest , and when she found another seat it was in a compartment with three other women travelling up to London on their own , all with suitcases and trim suits and carefully made-up faces . |
| 9 | WHAT a tragedy it is for tennis that Dan Maskell ( right ) has gone . |
| 10 | I mean there are some Conservatives who do actually believe in the social welfare of the but there are also , I 'm I 'm sure there are large numbers who actually know what vicious streak there is behind a lot of the other measures of social control that have gone on in this country since consensus was in nineteen seventy nine er you actually realise what what a tragedy it is in this area . |
| 11 | With this in mind it is for consideration whether such forms should not be redesigned to separate the disclaimer of liability on the part of the hospital from what really matters , namely the declaration by the patient of his decision with a full appreciation of the possible consequences , the latter being expressed in the simplest possible terms and emphasised by a different and larger type face , by underlining , the employment of coloured print or otherwise . |
| 12 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 13 | This then inevitably means that by the early spring it is worth working the same ground a second time . |
| 14 | When Caro made her escape after tea it was with all the usual feelings of guilt and frustration ; with her mother suggesting brightly , ‘ Just let me measure you for that new jumper before you go , Carolyn , ’ and , ‘ Did I show you the new suite we were thinking of getting , in the catalogue ? |
| 15 | For the underground it was to be almost unknown . |
| 16 | from the dark study it was like glimpsing daylight through a manhole . |
| 17 | If you are recalled for a second interview it is worth changing to a different outfit altogether if you can afford it or have something else suitable . |
| 18 | Well shall I tell you that a certain member of the er medical staff , you know they 've got bollards where the staff can put their cars in a certain place , and one member of the staff came out and said , please remove your car it 's in the staff parking part , the person said , yes I even had to move the bollard . |
| 19 | Red car it 's like ours is n't it ? |
| 20 | Lord Keith at p 640 said , as a general rule it is in the public interest that confidences should be respected , and the encouragement of such respect may in itself constitute a sufficient ground for recognising and enforcing the obligation of confidence even where the confider can point to no specific detriment to himself . |
| 21 | Indeed , if he has a fault as a critic it is in his boyishly enthusiastic generosity towards authors — Thomas Usk , Lydgate — who are not really as interesting as he makes them sound . |
| 22 | Opponents of membership , such as the Prime Minister , argue that whatever the right level of entry it is at least necessary to reduce inflation to the European average of roughly 3-4 per cent . |
| 23 | The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours . |
| 24 | It 's just like an inverse it 's of that number |
| 25 | In the short term it was in their interest to co-operate with the rest of the council , and the real test of their ambitions would come after the coronation , when they would be in a position to exploit their closeness to the new king . |
| 26 | In the short term it was in their interest to co-operate with the rest of the council , and the real test of their ambitions would come after the coronation , when they would be in a position to exploit their closeness to the new king . |
| 27 | We went to the christening and my heart was in my mouth it was on edge the whole time . |
| 28 | ‘ You do n't know what a pleasure it is to me , Pip , ’ he said once , ‘ to be with my dear boy , in the open air . ’ |
| 29 | Artichaut sauce vinaigrette it was for both the girls . |
| 30 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |