Example sentences of "be [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environment officials — who argue that the convention should be theirs because it concerns conservation rather than aid — now appear to have won their case . |
| 2 | have been him if it had been in the south , with me . |
| 3 | were me as it has been I 'd say that 's interesting , which club is that , oh it 's the |
| 4 | She said : ‘ They did harm me , and where were you when it happened ? ’ |
| 5 | If the work is commissioned by a PR consultant , the — copyright is his unless it has been arranged that it should be assigned to the client . |
| 6 | It can provide a precis only where the topic is something that it knows about , so that it has some sense of what conceptual relationships to expect in the story . |
| 7 | Things like , well , riches and justice and freedom and large things like peace and large things like that you see , or just erm personal characteristics and subordinate good is something which when it goes up things get better and bad or an evil or a vice is something when it goes up things get worse . |
| 8 | So that 's one if it comes up again |
| 9 | No , what they mean is they if it 's put in on a Thursday so it 's there so when they , whatever they get in on a Friday they can pay out then but if it 's paid in on a Friday then |
| 10 | it 's mine and it 's got other rings in it , look |
| 11 | and Boots own cleansing lotion for my mascara and that 's it , only buy mascara , eye liner and lipstick and blusher and that 's it and it does me six months of the year |
| 12 | What else is it that it tells ya ? |
| 13 | ‘ Or is it that it does n't seem long ? he continued bitterly , knowing the futility of carping , but being unable to stop it . |
| 14 | But what sort of porn is it that it has to be brought all the way from the US of A ? |
| 15 | The problem in this case however is : What is it that it comes after ? |
| 16 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 17 | It was his and it seemed a palace . |
| 18 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 19 | It was something that it had happened at all . |
| 20 | ‘ Where was he when it happened ? ’ |
| 21 | Removal of this national vulnerability and dependence on other nations became the prime aim , and so compelling an aim was it that it came to be achieved by fair means or foul . |
| 22 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |
| 23 | What sort of building was it before it became a museum ? |
| 24 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 25 | She knew he was hers and it thrilled her . |