Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps it 's just that we do n't have enough of those long , thin granite cracks .
2 Yeah , perhaps it 's just that I know some of the loonies that go up there and get what they want every time .
3 Perhaps it 's just because you do n't like her ?
4 Perhaps it 's simply because they do n't really know how to go about it .
5 Perhaps it 's best if I hand over now to Nick to run through the proposals there are some amendments to the one that you had as appendix one erm I do n't think any of them are too substantial .
6 They can be interested on the central questions , if the central questions are sent in a framework that they do understand , and perhaps it 's best when it 's done by somebody who is bold , not afraid of being amateurish , not afraid of being controversial , because theology erm is a world that can mean obfuscation .
7 Perhaps it is simply that you do not have the courage to do so .
8 Perhaps it is right that the official institutions of a community should express moral judgements on behalf of its law-abiding members — but why should it have to take form of punishment ?
9 Perhaps it is only because the duties of citizenship have been reduced to a minimum in those societies , with even voting being voluntary in most of them , that they survive as unitary states at all .
10 Perhaps the enormity of what he was doing got to him — the difference , perhaps between hardened professional and gifted amateur — or perhaps it was simply that the holes became too tough for him .
11 Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’
12 Perhaps it was simply that he had not spoken very well , being new to it , and they felt that he was not up to their fine ways ?
13 Glancing from beneath her lashes , Lindsey studied his profile , and found it unnerving , or perhaps it was simply that the confining space of the small car did n't allow much distance between driver and passenger .
14 Perhaps it was simply because I 've never fawned or flattered her .
15 Perhaps it was here that ogres and giants used to lure their victims .
16 Perhaps it was just that Gildas was closest , he understood most , and although their friendship was impregnable , they could still hurt each other .
17 Perhaps he could n't bear to , perhaps it was just that he felt his marriage to be a private affair .
18 Perhaps it was just that he had already made other plans .
19 Perhaps it was only that the hot climb had tired her but it seemed more than that .
20 Perhaps it was only because of the Substitute 's presence that he added , ‘ At eleven o'clock , ’ and then turned away quickly because the technician was about to protest .
21 Perhaps it was only because of the narrow range of human activities which fell within the orbit of the ECSC that the member states had been willing to cede potentially substantial powers to the body which was the fundamental supranational element of the new organisation .
22 Perhaps it was there that Roger was born or brought up .
23 Perhaps it was more that she just wanted to be somewhere else .
24 Perhaps it was now that he appointed Ebroin , himself an able military leader , to be his archchaplain .
25 Obviously it 's right that we should try and persuade the German government to delay matters as much as possible .
26 Only it 's only cos it has n't got the extra
27 So it is only if he admits the strength of the argument from error that he can think he is getting anywhere by refuting PC k .
28 So it was when my life began so it is now that I am a man .
29 So it 's best if they go off January and then they 've got time to send them back have n't they .
30 Well really that 's l by and large what groups is all about so it 's clearly that they do and there 's some cases here of sort of cyclists cycling harder and faster when they 've got they 're training with other cyclists or erm when they 're training against the clock .
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