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

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1 yes the , the commission does n't seemed to of addressed itself to , to , the only question it seemed to of addressed itself to are whether the criteria objective , erm , that there could be reasons when it takes decisions and erm there should be an appeal procedure
2 The multiplier for manual staff might be unity but it increases with staff level and becomes three or more for management .
3 if it gets too big a hole you see , it could be months before it heals up !
4 If the girl dies it will be murder and it 's happened in my area . ’
5 Winds can blow up unexpectedly and there may be rain but it does n't usually last long .
6 The firm reckons it will be years before it finds the system 's limits .
7 The plane 's ‘ black box ’ was found yesterday — but it will be weeks before it yields clues to the cause of the crash .
8 It is sometimes suggested that a justified true belief can be knowledge when it derives from a reliable method ( see Goldman , 1976 ; Armstrong , 1973 , ch. 13 ; Swain , 1981 ) .
9 And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is .
10 I know , but it 'll be midnight before it finishes wo n't it ?
11 of the largest of the continent must be Africa but it does n't fit .
12 ‘ History , which is , indeed , little more than the register of the crimes , follies and misfortunes of mankind , ’ for instance ; or , ‘ corruption , the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty , ’ and , most chillingly , ‘ all that is human must be retrograde if it does not advance . ’
13 In five weeks only we 'll be on our ‘ summer ’ holiday at Dornie — there will be trouble if it has n't cheered up by then .
14 He said , ‘ It must be love because it hurts so much . ’
15 So we had gotten to be friends and it stayed like that . ’
16 Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long .
17 Er , er my understanding to , to er about five minutes ago was that you were saying we have not failed to perform our legal obligations under clause nine , because clause nine er is either wholly or to be extent that it relates to the underwriting which we disapprove partially invalid out of being part of the erm , the anti competitive of erm the argument you 're pursuing .
18 Such experimental evidence can of course be extremely valuable , but there may be occasions when it needs to be augmented by observations of children in more natural surroundings .
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