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

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1 So erm the funeral , with it being the weekend it wo n't be till next , next week the funeral .
2 ‘ We begin around 12 telling them what a baby is , why it 's the sex it is and how it comes about .
3 It 's the way it combines it with a ‘ look ’ as striking and individual as any on the road today , both inside and out : from the inverted half-moon headlights to the reprioritised facia with its straight-ahead warning light strip and digital speed , fuel and range display on the centre console ; from the impossibly sporting rake of the bonnet and windscreen to the way the rear seat is set on runners to offer the maximum degree of flexibility between legroom and luggage space .
4 It 's the way it goes . ’
5 But because it 's the way it 's become .
6 It 's the way it works , ’ he explained .
7 I mean it 's not really data system that 's it 's the way it 's being used .
8 and er , he did n't intend it that way , but er it 's the way it turned out
9 Er it 's not the date the place was built , it 's the date it er the last time that that particular area was erm rebuilt .
10 ‘ It 's not the house I want , Peter , it 's the ground it 's standing on .
11 Ah it 's the acne it 's I ran out two weeks ago , so we 've been on holiday I had to get those prescription .
12 But it 's the time it takes
13 And erm he he said it 's stupid , he said they were given all this and it 's the homework it 's nothing to do with the revision you 've got to do in his the exams !
14 It wo n't be just this week , I thought , it 's the doors it opens .
15 It is the way it seemed to me , ’ Ven stated , but then qualified — and her heart started to thunder again , ‘ But then , until I met you , I 'd never before experienced — jealousy . ’
16 And for all for er for that er you got , you , you well you got your keep er and I do n't really think there was anything wrong with the food , it was the way it was cooked .
17 It was n't so much what he had done , though it was the very last thing she had expected , it was the way it had felt , like a high-voltage jolt of electricity .
18 But it was the way it was . ’
19 Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told .
20 Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world .
21 It was the way it was phrased .
22 Despite the fact that the Whitney Museum was the first to show the photographs of the notorious late Robert Mapplethorpe , and only recently declared that it was creating a department of photography , the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation announced last month that it was the Guggenheim it would be patronising with gifts in money and kind .
23 a very small ship , a frigate , and er the captain was at most Lieutenant Commander and the Princess Royal was doing the re-dedication and because it was the winter it was being done inside a big shed , that 's the background .
24 If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor .
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