Example sentences of "[be] it [be] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yes and they were it was you know the What impressed me also you know what it 's like when you go to these places I can remember going not so long ago to Blenheim and er just about to examine something and this thundering voice coming down the hallway , Do not touch . |
| 2 | So what you do is you what I wanted is , I , you know you know how if your mother 's gon na recover a sofa it 's it is you know , I I er I recover them . |
| 3 | erm it 's it 's we 've recorded it all in Amnesty International . |
| 4 | B A er had a very clear dominance at Heathrow , erm it was a dominance that erm has effectively been erm given to them on a plate by the government , or successive governments over the last fifty years , erm and which in effect saw off you know , Laker , B Cal , Dan Air , Air Europe , erm and er and er and er it 's it 's them having that dominance and then being able to erm er effectively misuse that dominance by er by using the dom the dominance on say the routes which say Virgin Atlantic do n't fly to er actually damage Virgin on on on the routes that erm that we do fly . |
| 5 | Well it does , I mean it 's it 's I mean I 've been there about just over three years , three and a half years . |
| 6 | Well , no , it 's it 's I do n't know whether political science could be exact , er , |
| 7 | If fact it 's it 's I found it in the past to be a welcome very welcome break from the atmosphere because you ca n't hang around in in the dining hall without talking a Green Party . |
| 8 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 9 | I mean the trouble is if you put the trumpet erm , if you put the trumpet too low , it 's it 's it does n't sound good and it goes out of tune , |
| 10 | It 's it 's it seems to me to be applauded . |
| 11 | cancer takes over it 's it 's you know , it 's it 's usually quite quick . |
| 12 | It 's it 's you do n't forfeit them , it 's safe , but they accumula er they they have a cumulative effect and you pay tax or what |
| 13 | Er , it 's it 's you do n't have to be frightened of letting me know this , because , it it stands to reason , that it 's going to happen , okay . |
| 14 | Trouble is it 's you know I worry |
| 15 | Is it is it boiled ? |
| 16 | Is it is it agreed that we pay the account for the tables ? |
| 17 | Okay , is it is it is it going to is it going to work ? |
| 18 | is it is it piss |
| 19 | I do n't know how you do sludge and that there and it 's it 's everything it 's a con you know we ought to have kept some and shown you because it is it is I 've never seen anything like it myself . |
| 20 | Is it are you going to be checked ? |
| 21 | When was it were you born were you born You were born in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 22 | . It 's probably E S actually cos it was it was me trying trying to find a plural for |
| 23 | But th to go back to the the polishing , it really was it was you know , really hard work and But there was a great band of I mean the the used to Different firms that would h have a lot of work on one place and then they would move and then some would go to the shipyards . |