Example sentences of "[noun sg] it be [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have served your theme well , and to my mind it is one that both needed and deserved the service . ’ |
| 2 | What we 're actually doing in terms of the product is we 're actually widening the franchise erm I do n't like to use words going up market that suggests that we 're leaving our core customers behind , we will we will add any product that is complimentary to our core kitchens but er we 'll still be the main stance of the product in these two stores for instance , we 're going to introduce a house wear department it is something that we 've been experimenting with before we 're going to erm use the opportunity to widen the franchise on appliances we 're going to erm use the an experiment on erm floorings to match work tops , those kind of developments just to test to see whether the customer reaction is as good as we hoped it would be so that we can then introduce it in the main chain |
| 3 | She did n't lose , she did n't lose weight it 's something else , and erm , and eh , oh that 's why it was , so a . |
| 4 | This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books . |
| 5 | In Major League Baseball it is one that comes with Hollywood-sized pay . |
| 6 | Granting evils in the slave trade and colonial slavery it was none the less argued that government could more easily influence planters and traders through better regulation than they could control the situation on the West African coast . |
| 7 | At the moment it 's nothing . ’ |
| 8 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 9 | Now you may think the budget was today 's big story , but for the people of one town it was nothing compared to a row over a much-loved local landmark . |
| 10 | Thank goodness it was nothing more serious . |
| 11 | Right , as a decimal it 's nought point seven five , and as a fraction ? |
| 12 | coffee shop it was something like |
| 13 | Lucille 's home was very grandly called a château , though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm with a crenellated tower to remind passers-by that the building had once been a small fortress . |
| 14 | For a world class decathlete it 's something of a gear change . |
| 15 | Nearly every organization requires accounts or finance clerks , so if mathematics is your strong point it is something to think about . |
| 16 | Every day it was something else . |
| 17 | but Mrs the other day it was something like two o'clock , Mrs said to her , she went to lunch one till two Mrs oh have you had your lunch ? |
| 18 | Cos that was St Petersberg catholic ladies guild or something and another day it was something like I B M or whatever you know . |
| 19 | … When it comes to [ discovering ] pollution it 's one in a thousand that you 'll [ do so ] by sampling — it 's in an officer 's technique … ‘ |
| 20 | But he would also say as a race it was nothing special : as a race it was ‘ out of all proportion to the fame and fortune ’ and needed ‘ no more ability than any other place ’ . |
| 21 | At one time I thought Tatyana may have done it , but now I have evidence it was someone else . ’ |
| 22 | You dug up a spadeful of earth , but by the time you threw it on the rampart it was nothing but muddy water . |
| 23 | And I sat and last week it was something down here . |
| 24 | And erm he he said it 's stupid , he said they were given all this and it 's the homework it 's nothing to do with the revision you 've got to do in his the exams ! |
| 25 | But since Gide has been criticized in this respect it is something which needs to be addressed . |
| 26 | summer house , yeah , yeah , and he 's got a patio outside , did n't , it 's a only a patio it 's nothing , it 's not covered in or anything but there 's steps up to it and that and , and that 's it , he 's got nothing in his garden , it 's lawn and |
| 27 | and I think it was something like , say twenty pound , it was on the market , but I have a feeling it was something like thirty odd |
| 28 | Yeah , I think that we need to look into more depth the issue of the County Farms estate , we agreed from the start it was something that could not be rushed , and we had to , the principle question that needed to be answered was that was there a viability for County Farms or role for County Farms in the nineteen nineties . |
| 29 | ‘ Now I 'm hoping we can see the best of Barnes because since I 've been Liverpool manager it is something I 've not seen . ’ |
| 30 | It 's probably right but it does n't actually count in that calculation it 's something quite separate . |