Example sentences of "[noun] it [modal v] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would nt hurt to say ‘ Yes I m sory to leave Leeds and the supporters behind … but the club needed the money and if I had to join another club it would be Blackburn ( and onto the usual bullshit ) ’ Fuck me even Cantona said something nice about us . |
| 2 | Phoebe was suddenly grateful for her mother 's calm and decision ; if anyone could get rid of the London fire brigade it would be Rachel . |
| 3 | It could be Sam 's Ann It 'll be S M not S A , no A S put be fine now . |
| 4 | Australian cricketers commuting to and from England have breezed through the island since the beginning of such journeys in 1878 , but usually with the attitude that if it is Tuesday it must be Trincomalee . |
| 5 | In order for their agreement to have any effect it must be part of the contract . |
| 6 | But if I am to have a horse it must be Han Ch'in 's . |
| 7 | For loans between £20,000 and £25,000 the average increase in repayments will be £7.80 a month and for loans less than £10,000 it will be £2.10 a month . |
| 8 | But at London Fox and the London Metal Exchange it will be business as usual . |
| 9 | Timing and service are chaotic , but since this raises wine consumption it may be policy . |
| 10 | " In a moment it will be time to give Mr Hopkins another half ounce of brandy , poor man , " sighed Miriam . |
| 11 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 12 | In two weeks it 'd be Christmas . |
| 13 | ‘ I was extremely happy living there and realised that if I was prepared to leave my home to move to America with Roy it must be love . ’ |
| 14 | If anyone had the individual headhunting kudos to survive as a one-man band it would be priem or , of course , Roche . |
| 15 | But life with Thomas is n't just a merry-go-round it can be swings and roundabouts . |
| 16 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 17 | the maker 's name it must be bedtime now Dick |
| 18 | In these early years the Reich Treasury was unwilling to offer any subsidy to the Danzig Party , presumably on the grounds that with such poor leadership it would be money wasted . |
| 19 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 20 | The background against which they fought was arid red desert ; they might have been fighting to make it green again ; yet one had the feeling that if either defeated the other it would be disaster . |
| 21 | And she would say , ‘ How long are you here for this time ? ’ praying it would be weeks instead of days … . |
| 22 | Within about 10 days she knew that when the phone rang at night it would be Tony , despite never having seen a phone before . |
| 23 | She has no winter coat or boots and she eats meat once a week , " and by the end of the month it 'll be beans on toast or a can of soup between us . |
| 24 | From Australia it would be God knows how long . |
| 25 | RUDOLF Diesel 's patent may be 100 years old , but if one company could be said to have re-invented the concept in recent years for the small hatchback it must be Volkswagen . |
| 26 | Suppose it is 12 noon on a Monday by GMT ; at this moment , to the traveller who has travelled eastwards it will be midnight at the end of Monday , but to the westward traveller it will be midnight at the beginning of Monday . |
| 27 | For some people it would be sports , especially team sports activities . |
| 28 | At six in the morning it would be daylight , and with the curtains drawn in the office … |
| 29 | This morning it must be Ruth on duty . |
| 30 | Hopefully Rocky will be playing but I 've a feeling it will be Hodge . |