Example sentences of "it be [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party . |
| 2 | Er what 's the atmosphere like in Belfast , what 's it been like this week ? |
| 3 | Wo n't it be on this lot ? |
| 4 | Who could it be at this hour ? |
| 5 | ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth . |
| 6 | Whoever could it be at this time of night ? |
| 7 | What will it be for that clef ? |
| 8 | If the latter , can it be for any offence or only for a serious one , and is the offence in the problem sufficiently serious ? |
| 9 | Could it be worth this pain ? |
| 10 | Should n't it be round that side ? |
| 11 | And it were about that height . |
| 12 | ‘ I ask that you will accommodate Anne Duchess of York , my daughter-in-law in your household , ’ Elizabeth Woodville had written — after enquiring as to her friend 's health , reminiscing about former days and passing on to the matter of her daughter-in-law as if it were of little consequence . |
| 13 | Moderator we , we do accept this but maybe I could er say just a word to the assembly about the workload as it were of this panel on doctrine . |
| 14 | Other one would learnt how to open a crack , and it were in that cage , and it could hear birds outside . |
| 15 | The road to follow up into the low hills is marked with the sign ‘ Coteaux de Jurançon ’ , though it is also quite easy to lose once you are up there ; but when vineyards are so thin on the ground as it were in this part of the country , there is every reason to get briefly lost amongst them . |
| 16 | He well he 's , he 's moved into somewhere , du n no whether it 's with this woman or not but she 's got two young kids . |
| 17 | It 's just like an inverse it 's of that number |
| 18 | Jane : No I did n't is certainly confrontational but it 's of little interest dramatically . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any help but — er — I made a couple of notes at the time . |
| 20 | After a moment of silence in which she studied his face , she said : ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any importance , but they played a game . ’ |
| 21 | And it 's something to do with that and an embargo date 's a little bit like that , and in a sense , you may well be able to stop people actually publishing the thing , but they will still know and be working on it if it 's of any importance , so use embargo dates advisedly . |
| 22 | ‘ If it 's of any interest to you , I scarcely even remember what I said , but if I somehow managed to upset you … ’ |
| 23 | This can be traced back as far at least as Lord Mansfield , who said : ‘ In all mercantile transactions the great object should be certainty and therefore it 's of more consequence that a rule should be certain , than whether the rule is established one way or the other . |
| 24 | where you take the animals , you come out right , and there 's a butchers i n't there ? , cross over road , big shops on corner , it 's on that block |
| 25 | ‘ It 's on that boat . |
| 26 | It 's on that side as well . |
| 27 | it 's on there , it 's on that side |
| 28 | It 's on that basis that a whole life multiplier must be found . |
| 29 | Could we just er by following that up Chairman , suggest that they , that they look at p the provision of double yellow lines around the kerb , around those kerbs that go from lower Road into Road , because it 's on that corner that you get the , the van parked which is causing the visibility problems . |
| 30 | Usually on the there five minutes , it 's on all day is n't it ? |