Example sentences of "it [be] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or to reverse it , could it be that in the deepening turbulence of our generation God is not only judging a culture which has abandoned him but also , as it were , shaking up the bag and testing the foundations to see if we Christians are as ready as we think for the critical years ahead ? |
| 2 | Today , and in conclusion , we 're going to have a more general look at society of the future and ask question such as ‘ How different will it be because of these devices ? ’ . |
| 3 | You know when the eyes kept itching , last time , and I said I wondered if it were 'cos of birds , |
| 4 | It might seem odd to talk about entry halls as a postscript as it were but in practical terms most people put decorating their living rooms first . |
| 5 | It 's that at the age of 34 , fourteen years after first shambling on stage in downtown Chicago , having criss-crossed the stand-up circuit from coast to coast and guested on very hip chat show from David Letterman to Arsenio Hall , he should be bigger than he is . |
| 6 | Well it 's and in the bedroom . |
| 7 | What comes across in both my interests and any skills which is n't really reconcilable with this I do n't think is that erm I 've got sort of , because of , I think it 's cos of my academic experience cos I did an arts degree with a lot of research and stuff , is that I , I like researching , data collecting , processing information . |
| 8 | But I said to her she never gets higher than a commended cos , she knows it 's cos of her weight . |
| 9 | It 's cos of Clare 's mum then in n it ? |
| 10 | I think it 's cos of them , well I mean |
| 11 | It 's cos of the matches . |
| 12 | It 's because over the last twenty odd years of investment in Social Services erm differential investment decisions were made , blah blah blah . |
| 13 | It 's because of this — the magnanimity even more than the political expertise — that Olson 's appalled and self-questioning reflections on Pound 's arraignment and incarceration make all others seem puerile at best . |
| 14 | It 's because of your past that you 're sitting there now , with your list on your knee . |
| 15 | It 's because of having too good a husband . ’ |
| 16 | It 's because of his own hang-ups , if you ask me . |
| 17 | ‘ I think for my part it 's because of Liubov , ’ I said . |
| 18 | It 's because of that interest , and those letters , that I 've been sent to do a special report . ’ |
| 19 | It 's because of this DOUBLE TAX-FREE BENEFIT that the Inland Revenue has limited such investments to one per adult . |
| 20 | He thinks it 's because of the sausages that people do n't like him enough to ask him to tea ; but it is n't really . |
| 21 | They were grand folk , and it 's because of them that I am not one of the antismoking lobby ( although I have never associated personally with nicotine ) . |
| 22 | And it 's because of these changes that the nature of male broodiness has changed . |
| 23 | Of course sometimes when it does n't work that depresses me because it 's not because it does n't work , it 's because of the constraints of the system that you can not make it work . |
| 24 | But it 's because of the Church , of course , that people like Joyce and , for a great deal of his time , Yeats , had to live out of Ireland … |
| 25 | It 's because of the steepness of the hill , it 's all terraced . |
| 26 | It 's because of me . " |
| 27 | " Well , sir , " said Hazel rather hesitantly , " it 's because of my brother — Fiver here . |
| 28 | If I , if I get another species next year nesting , that has n't nested before and I know it 's because of the effort of putting in reeds , trees , whatever I 've put in there , we 're , we 're trying to get to nest here , if they nest that 'll be really , er that 'll be a great thing because er they feed on the apple erm I thought somebody said er who said there was a hundred a seventy five here er a week ago and that 'd be great to get them to nest , be really good . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's because of you , Kate . |
| 30 | ‘ Because I 'm b aadd , ’ he clowns , but them holds up his shaking hand , spreads his fingers and says : ‘ It 's because of this . |