Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Had it been in the day time I 'm sure there would have been lives lost for they would n't have stayed in to seen their stuff go under .
2 There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years .
3 And meanwhile , next year 's potatoes will not be planted because the men who should be doing it are on the public works instead — and they are on the public works because that is the only place they can get money to buy the meal they need to replace the potato that failed . ’
4 ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars .
5 Of what interest could it be to the man where her father was born ?
6 Should n't it be on the floor ?
7 What life will it be for a child stuck in here ? ’
8 I wonder , therefore , if I could ask you to take only one copy — would it be for the IBM/CMS or the Sun/3 with UNIX configuration ?
9 The more continuous and lasting a direct interpersonal encounter , the harder will it be for the encounter to assume a purely instrumental quality .
10 How could it be with the clown candidate Ross ‘ I 'm All Ears ’ Perot .
11 ‘ Will it be with the Student Communist Party or Opus Dei ? ’ — both risks springing to the mind of a parent living in an ancient university city .
12 What does that come to , without doing it , what would it be as a decimal ?
13 Then , and only then , will it be in a position to force political parties to act .
14 Or what can it be in the context of large-scale modern societies ?
15 Ca n't it , could it be in the quality manual , rather than erm , have a procedure about how to write a proce , when to start and have a pro .
16 It was a bit like having someone rub you with suntan cream , yet it was n't like that at all — how could it be in the dark ?
17 But would it be within the spirit of the manifesto to murmur , read my lips , no more direct taxes ?
18 all the things that happen , all these sighs of oppression , because I think really what we 're talking about , whether it be within the family or it be within the media , all the signs of women as er sexist
19 The bold structure of its theories rises , as it were above a swamp .
20 For the next 100 million years parts of it were under the sea and it was covered with layers of sandstone , then limestone , and swampy forests which were buried between layers of mud and sand .
21 I reckon it were about the time of the Great War .
22 Thus , if we assume a simple deterministic relationship between the social and religious orders ( as anthropologists all too often do ) , we can expect that Nuer religion similarly extends , as it were into the skies , its own secular lineage structure .
23 If you were involved in things at a senior level , whether it were as an administrator , a Minister or even as a senior policeman , you had hundreds of things on the go at any one time .
24 They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces .
25 Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination .
26 This is very difficult because it means er it is a potential threat as it were to the countryside of the county .
27 Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference .
28 When the Alternative Service Book was threatening the absolutism of the Book of Common Prayer a few years ago , the Book of Common Prayer was being spoken of as if it were on a par with Holy Writ .
29 The Labour leadership was sceptical about workers ' control , indeed Cripps is reported as having said ‘ I think it would be almost impossible to have worker-controlled industry in Britain even if it were on the whole desirable ’ ( Coates & Topham , 1975 , p. 60 ) .
30 I , er first of all I was a kind of shy wee laddie as it were on the council .
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