Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it can be slightly embarrassing to be successful at something , and if you are beginning to turn the occasional head now that you are slimmer you may come in for some negative comments from your rivals . |
| 2 | Although it was midday everything was pitch dark . |
| 3 | Although it was Church who originally proposed the use of ‘ pinches ’ and ‘ scoops ’ for measuring out the components of salt-sugar solutions for the purpose of oral rehydration , it was BRAC which adapted this method for use by the people of Bangladesh . |
| 4 | It 's afternoon keep saying that it 's afternoon it 's morning to me this afternoon pick up your phone and give me a ring now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 5 | Human behaviour tends to be reshaped very quickly with this method … and usually we find that it 's dad who ends up parting with most money ! |
| 6 | I feel that it 's time we made a commitment . |
| 7 | Being told when you have just turned fifty that it 's time you retired does rather hurt . |
| 8 | That it 's time you stopped living in the past and started moving into the present . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ No — but you dropped a dirty big hint that it 's time I was married , ’ he snapped tersely . |
| 10 | It is the projected activities , the group under E and F , which will concern us in this section , as we shall see that it is projection which protects the participants . |
| 11 | ( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established . |
| 12 | Although that has meant that not much can be done , in principle it is a good idea in that it forces underwater sites to compete with land sites for funding , and tends to keep the attention on the point that it is archaeology we are talking about . |
| 13 | Despite Sartre 's reiteration that it is man who makes it , history increasingly assumes its own ontological status in the Critiques . |
| 14 | This may sound complicated , but rest assured , that it is simplicity itself . |
| 15 | The Marxist feminists argue that it is capital which gains the benefit from this exploitative form of labour , since it means that they can pay these women 's husbands lower wages than would be the case if male workers had to buy these services , for instance meals in cafes , laundries for clothes-washing , and nannies for their children . |
| 16 | Nokia Oy , Helsinki says that it is increase its capital base with an international placing of about $100m of new preference shares ; no details yet . |
| 17 | However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head . |
| 18 | Indeed , the very concrete physicality of objects might lead us to expect quite the opposite conclusion , which is that it is language which organizes the deep unconscious , while objects as visible images are a relatively superficial phenomenon . |
| 19 | This idea is at odds with the Saussurean principle that it is language which is primary , and that far from preceding language , meaning is an effect produced by language . |
| 20 | Does he agree that it is time we had a real clampdown on the possession of firearms throughout society , remembering that the problem will not be cured unless the Home Office takes strenuous action in relation to the legal as well as the illegal holding of firearms ? |
| 21 | She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain . |
| 22 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 23 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 24 | Already the warmth was draining from the air and he knew that it was time they were moving . |
| 25 | It seemed to Annie that no sooner had Tamar arrived in the market hall , than Goodison was by her side , suggesting that it was time they started off for home . |
| 26 | At last the golden afternoon was over , and Robbie heard with regret Fen 's decree that it was time they returned to Water Gypsy . |
| 27 | And erm we 've got this big rally er which a fortnight ago Julie suggested that we had a rally I think she thought er you know that it was time we a the public profile up sort of thing . |
| 28 | That 's how I used to act , until I realized it was just a sham and I decided that it was time I was honest with myself . |
| 29 | With the greatest of reluctance , I decided that it was time I bought myself another detector . |
| 30 | After more than ten years he decided that it was time he retrieved some of the money , so from 1921 to 1923 he put the wages of his chauffeur on Arsenal 's expense account and in 1926 charged the club £125 for hiring , over two years , a motor car . |