Example sentences of "it be a [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been a ploy it would have been a rewarding one , but Vanessa was not given to ploys . |
| 2 | Had she been less committed to parenting , perhaps because her children were older and seen to be less in need of her support , or had it been an event which threatened a role or idea to which she was less committed , perhaps losing a part-time job which she did not enjoy , the effect would be less threatening . |
| 3 | She repeated the word softly , testing the sound of it on her lips , as if it were a word she had never heard before . |
| 4 | There is a particular kind of French personality who always pronounce the word francais as if it were a football he is heading towards less privileged mortals . |
| 5 | As though I did not exist ; as though it were an automaton who cleared brambles and counted magpies . |
| 6 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 7 | It is no longer fashionable to discuss the Industrial Revolution as if it were an event which happened between 1760 and 1840 . |
| 8 | The famous trip to Europe , which Lear had constantly referred to in his letters as if it were an experience which united him with the great ornithologist , became the bitter disappointment of a friendship manqué . |
| 9 | In recognition of it being a charity which had acted in the public interest , the judge awarded only three-quarters of the costs , estimated at £50,000 , against the conservation group , which is considering an appeal . |
| 10 | It 's a route he has just retraced for the character of Fergus , the IRA man who attempts to re-make his life in The Crying Game ] , an experience Jordan understands well . |
| 11 | So i i it 's a standard you know dinky little thing like y you us you use You know the with their little twirly thing and er the you saw the |
| 12 | It 's a lellow I mean a yellow tie . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a change we were both prepared to take . |
| 14 | We s it 's a word we use quite a lot . |
| 15 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |
| 16 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled depths of the ocean . |
| 17 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 18 | It 's a word you are unlikely to find in the dictionary but , if you think of it as the opposite to ‘ extrude ’ , meaning to thrust or push out , then the term becomes more understandable . |
| 19 | If I write this on the board , I 'll break it down for you because it 's a word you may well see , sorry about that |
| 20 | Well it 's a skill I have . |
| 21 | You are all familiar with our loyal supporters , but what about those people on the fringes who may have given a donation or done something for Save The Children in the past , but never really followed it up and there are the people who are interested who think , it 's a charity I feel I ought to support . |
| 22 | Let's see if we can move them on this year so that they start to think it 's a charity I know I really want to support . |
| 23 | Oscar , oh it 's a comedy you know |
| 24 | It 's a bike it 's electric . |
| 25 | It 's a look I never thought he 'd give me . |
| 26 | It 's a feature we always enjoy compiling as we never fail to learn something from it . |
| 27 | But it 's a duster you take to it , not one of the latest hydraulic drills , and even as you dust , you must do it lovingly . |
| 28 | And it is not just a revolution , it 's a rural revolution , it 's a revolution which is taking place through the peasantry . |
| 29 | But it 's a technique which can be used in many different ways , for example : |
| 30 | If it 's a will it 's the executor or the one executor of the number of them who are proving it . |