Example sentences of "[coord] it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . This is an alcohol it has an O H group so it is a butanole but you have to indicate where the O H group actually is it 's either on four or it 's on one . |
| 2 | Or it 's to hell in a handcart . ’ |
| 3 | yeah , I think it 's either in my briefcase , or it 's in the car , but it 's probably in the briefcase , I 'll go and have a look |
| 4 | Does that rain mean it 's off the coast or it 's in our area ? |
| 5 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 6 | Or it 's like the radioactive cloud has drifted down , days after the holocaust , and dusted their skin softly to start the decay . |
| 7 | Now legislation arises either from major political commitments made by the Cabinet ( or earlier by the Shadow Cabinet while the party was in opposition ) , or it is of a more routine nature and comes from within the departments when they find their existing powers insufficient or inappropriate for the conduct of administration along accepted lines . |
| 8 | Positivist theories under this latter heading have taken two quite different forms : the acquisition is through the occurrence of some physical damage ( or illness ) ; or it is through learning . |
| 9 | ‘ Scripture ’ he said ‘ puts the great Commission from Jesus right at the heart of the Christian faith , or it is for every disciple ’ . |
| 10 | Either the contract is between the person acquiring a copy of the system ( the " acquirer " ) and the dealer or it is between the acquirer and the software company in which case the dealer acts as the company 's agent . |
| 11 | Or it is like the light pictures that enter the eyes lenses and escape into the vastness of the tundra and like ice crystals on the windows , they freeze and become the light flowers that bloom on the endless snow fields . |
| 12 | Or it was for the production crew working on the new children 's series The Borrowers . |
| 13 | Or it was until last Friday , when British Coal locked the gates of Parkside for the last time , and over 700 men were made redundant . |
| 14 | It was like falling into a black well , where you knew there would never be light , or it was like being cast adrift on a night ocean when you knew no ships would ever pass . |
| 15 | Predicating a theme involves using an it-structure ( also called a cleft structure ) to place an element near the beginning of the clause , as in It was the book that received a great deal of publicity in China , it was a great deal of publicity that the book received in China , or It was in China that the book received a great deal of publicity . |
| 16 | Either this date is wrong , and he died later , or Carham was in 1016 or earlier , or it was in 1018 and the Historia Regum is mistaken about Uhtred 's presence there . |
| 17 | all the things that happen , all these sighs of oppression , because I think really what we 're talking about , whether it be within the family or it be within the media , all the signs of women as er sexist |
| 18 | Nor it is worth pursuing that the sandwiches at 10 Downing Street were probably very much better than those in The Centenary at Norton . |
| 19 | When Mr. Gussman arrived in Alton some two and a half years ago , there was a question mark over whether or nor it was worth making him chaplain of the hospital . |
| 20 | I 'm on top of this situation and it 's under control . |
| 21 | It 's from a stone age and it 's between four and five thousand years old . |
| 22 | Well I think , I think what you what you got to do , and it 's between you two to continue to press that , and and chivvy Bill erm erm er |
| 23 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 24 | The foreword says ‘ A sad story with a happy ending ’ , and it 's about a little baby who has no Mummy and so goes off to find one . |
| 25 | It 's called The Bridge to Nowhere and it 's about a man in total desolation , totally alone . |
| 26 | ‘ The more I 'm into music and the more I 'm into guitar playing , I realise it is n't about how great a guitar player you are ; it 's about writing songs and it 's about fitting guitar and voice together . |
| 27 | It 's called The Bridge to Nowhere and it 's about a man in total desolation , totally alone . |
| 28 | There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information . |
| 29 | And it 's about the easiest piece of cooking you 're ever likely to do . |
| 30 | The other is tapered at one end at the bottom , and it 's about the size of a tennis ball . |