Example sentences of "it [be] [noun] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's peace in our time , as Chamberlain said … ‘ |
| 2 | They give nothing away , and it 's Jensen in his rock-solid role as ball-winner and organiser who is providing a base for the ones in front of him to play . |
| 3 | It 's pains in her stomach . |
| 4 | It is faith in our nation that has made us little people great , that has made us poor people rich , that has made us wavering , fearful , timid people brave and confident , that has made us erring wanderers clear-sighted and has brought us together ! |
| 5 | At best , any reading of line A is bound to be provisional ; the precise sense of the " grass " image that it is grass in its aspect of impermanence ( absence of ) awaits a reading of line B. |
| 6 | It is people in their use of language who are logical or illogical , not languages or dialects themselves . |
| 7 | It was pride in his beauty that was his undoing ! ’ |
| 8 | It was cats in her case . |
| 9 | It was the it was boats in me mother 's day , of course then the drafters was . |
| 10 | It was Anderson in his Manchester pamphlet who most conspicuously at this early stage of the antislavery campaign raised the free-labour argument and implicitly defined its appropriateness to man 's nature . |
| 11 | Amanda had been all enthusiastic even in the rain , saying it was spray in her face and look at the gulls , which were swooping down on the shoal of crisp packets and orange peel trailing in the wake . |