Example sentences of "[adv] it be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this trio again blended well together it was the tremendous ability of McClure which sealed the ticket to Ayr . |
| 2 | Suddenly it was the Chinese , not the foreigners , who were pressing for a deal . |
| 3 | However , when I got to Liverpool on Thursday and saw the state of the ground , instead of thinking about such horses as Laura 's Beau , Rubika and Cool Ground as the major chances , suddenly it was the good-ground types such as Docklands Express who re-entered calculations . |
| 4 | The funeral cars and hearse have blue flashing lights on the roof , very similar to a policecar , when I enquired as to the reason for this , apparently it 's the only way they can get around the island for the traffic and the laid-back attitude of the locals . |
| 5 | It 's worth reminding readers who are parents of this with the start of the school holidays next month — apparently it 's the prime time for solvent abuse . |
| 6 | True , a haircut , a smattering of designer stubble , the odd earring and a spot of UVA can make a difference , but basically it 's the inner man who 's on display . |
| 7 | Sure , there are differences , they 've got this one-eyed machine and so on , but basically it 's the same thing , and we even tell them it 's going to end in the same way with the raft capsizing . |
| 8 | And wh what tends to happen is the dreams are , are , are repetitive , although they often vary in small details , and the idea is , or this was Freud 's , Freud 's idea , and basically it 's the same as his explanation of anxiety dreams , that , that what is happening here is that the mind has got a very disturbing latent content that it ca n't forget . |
| 9 | Historians have long argued about the ‘ rise ’ of this group , but basically it was the collective experience of nearly fifty individual families who became the pacesetters of Elizabethan Sussex . |
| 10 | We are not saying , that necessarily it 's the right thing to do , but it seems to me people are going to do it anyway , are n't they . |
| 11 | So that 's a easy way to make sure that you , because that was the first thing you went for now , in the exam you might well put that down and think , oh , hang on , does n't look right , perhaps it 's the other way up |
| 12 | Perhaps it 's the best thing that could have happened . |
| 13 | Perhaps it 's the black magic group has put her blood pressure up ? |
| 14 | Perhaps it 's the only tune they know . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps it 's the innocent expression that 's faded . ’ |
| 16 | and the third thing is erm I frankly do n't understand perhaps it 's the same point as er that this below the line item , I mean it 's taken below the line it must come from somewhere . |
| 17 | Perhaps it is the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) , who fought an election on an honest programme and was defeated . |
| 18 | An exquisite unreality catches the earth , or perhaps it is the ultimate reality . |
| 19 | You do n't say what species of newt you have , perhaps it is the Japanese Fire-Bellied Newt ? |
| 20 | Perhaps it is the extraordinary popularity of The Color Purple that has led some critics to accuse it of being an uncontentious , sentimental and harmless piece of libertarianism , a family homily that is not just optimistic but eventually even utopian . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) , who is willing to continue to enunciate the principle that there is no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 22 | If these examples reveal anything , perhaps it is the unwelcome truth that most of us are better at memorizing and applying formulae for solving certain types of predictable problems than we are at generating imaginative solutions to unfamiliar problems . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is the habitual leader of the group or perhaps the leader has arisen for that meeting on that topic . |
| 24 | My father took one side , perhaps it was the right side and perhaps it was the wrong side . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 26 | Now , perhaps it was the poor light but Benjamin 's face paled . |
| 27 | Yet perhaps it was the easy accessibility of English which made it so popular ; it has grown to be the second largest university subject . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was the Mancunian manic depressive bliss that was so alluring . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was the sheer blatancy of her confession . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was the immigrant condition living itself out through them . |