Example sentences of "[prep] it be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were treated very well and given fruit and drinks — despite it being the holy fasting month of Ramadan . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough hope for a good crowd despite it being the third home game of the week . |
| 3 | Below it are the two brilliant Pointers , Alpha and Beta Centauri ; Alpha , the nearest of all the bright stars beyond the Sun , is well above zero magnitude , so that only Sirius and Canopus outshine it . |
| 4 | Below it is the old palmerie , the Corbeille , nourished by channels of water running from a hot spring poetically named The Source . |
| 5 | I think they just sort of it 's the same thing in a different order . |
| 6 | Grease and fat and plenty of it is the only way to beat the cold of what could be 26 miles of chilling and choppy sea water . |
| 7 | It is not a continuous road but a route , and a lot of it is the wide , slow Irrawaddy River . |
| 8 | The versatility of it is the big attraction ; it can sound like anything from a vintage Strat to an Ibanez or a Les Paul , with the mid-boost in it . |
| 9 | David Thatcher who minutes the CA debt working group came to the conference and his account of it is the main article in this newsletter . |
| 10 | So that ma er in any case they 'd of got some of it being the two colours . |
| 11 | Money and how to get hold of it were the perennial problems that refused to go away . |
| 12 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 13 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 14 | In her mind it was the ultimate degradation , and any man who could live off the proceeds of it was the lowest of the low . |
| 15 | on the thing and I said well he 'll have to be fucking stretched if they come to that door and none of them dishes and the best of it was the front door would n't open |
| 16 | The main beneficiary of it was the agricultural worker and the principal loser the landowner . |
| 17 | And then i , but the best of it was the other day we |
| 18 | The essence of it was the direct personal participation of the citizen body in the government of the city . |
| 19 | Nevertheless the form of it was the same , there was a , would you buy that one Kirsty that there was a |
| 20 | It was funny and sad , but the miracle of it was the good-humoured way in which Rosenthal ( an old Coronation Street hand ) made the crushing boredom of it all , the sullenness and tantrums , seem somehow interesting . |
| 21 | But , it 's almost like it 's the established pattern to use animals to test |
| 22 | We 're going to play every night like it 's the last one . |
| 23 | They cling to their gang-of-lads-from-Oldham identity like it 's the last line of defence between them and the unthinkable horror of an interview with Melvyn Bragg . |
| 24 | Shut up Kim , it was alright like it was the first time |
| 25 | Everybody was wrapped up like it was the Arctic . |
| 26 | ‘ It seemed like it was the hardest decision I ever had to make in my life . |
| 27 | A good non-slip rubber bathmat with suction caps underneath it is the first essential . |
| 28 | Set against it is the Marxist-structuralist position , that finds the concepts of art and literature inherently oppressive . |
| 29 | Pitted against it were the great princes , some with ambition to achieve political and legal independence of the crown . |
| 30 | Behind it is the royal day saloon , a stunning creation in plush and velvet , green , gold , and white , superbly wood-panelled and wonderfully comfortable . |