Example sentences of "it [be] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remains of a rare Roman lighthouse and the restored Anglo-Saxon church beside it are remainders of earlier times . |
| 2 | Inequality and the response to it are themes of many geographical and political studies . |
| 3 | He reflected the view of my constituents when he said that crime and how to reduce it are matters for the Government . |
| 4 | At about this time Mr. Tee did have some connection with Winchester , but the extent of that connection and what was to remain of it are matters in dispute between the parties . |
| 5 | In it are examples of his installation work and some object sculptures , among them ‘ Bureau Couvert de Mules ’ of 1966 and another work from the Sixties which consists of a stuffed parrot in a glass case with an accompanying text and a tape-loop of sound . |
| 6 | And will it be curtains for Coombs in Swindon ? |
| 7 | Could it be wedding-bells for you soon ? ’ |
| 8 | Would it be grounds for denying access ? |
| 9 | Bel-Shamharoth was especially attracted to dabblers in magic who , by being as it were beachcombers on the shores of the unnatural , were already half-enmeshed in his nets . |
| 10 | There was a great lake and on it were flamingos like the ones you see every day on Three Island Pond . |
| 11 | As they moved cautiously towards it , Fenella saw that it had opened for them just the smallest sliver and that beyond it were shards of light . |
| 12 | In it were copies of the records Karr had brought back with him from Mars : Berdichev 's personal files , taken from the corpse of his private secretary three days before Karr had caught up with Berdichev himself . |
| 13 | The fence was a four-strand barbed wire job and beyond it were rows of green plants about four feet high . |
| 14 | ( c ) I do not think the Engdiv case , 1990 S.L.T. 617 assists Mr. Beazley , since both the pursuers seeking contribution and the defenders resisting it were parties to the building contract at issue in the case , so that it was difficult to resist the submission that the claim for contribution in that case was in a matter relating to a contract . |
| 15 | The A N C was locked in a crucial national executive meeting to discuss the issues of township violence and the possible arming of it 's members in the strife-torn zones . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's times like that when his work gets in the way most . ’ |
| 17 | It 's times like these when my job is made very difficult . |
| 18 | But it 's times like that when you find who your friends are . |
| 19 | Irene Daniels , who 's the programme 's researcher says ‘ if you have a clip that makes you and your family laugh , then it 's odds on it 'll make other people laugh too ’ . |
| 20 | It 's firms like ABT which may hold the key to recovery . |
| 21 | All group one policies , so it 's benefits on pensions plus all the erm qualifying policies |
| 22 | New League rules say that the next highest-placed team will be promoted should a side be able to fulfil it 's obligations in the higher league . |
| 23 | So we have had a failing government , we 've had a failing Tory administration , and the people who are interested in looking after this county and all it 's services within the budget set by central government , has made sure that we have got a good police force , which it will not receive cuts in it 's services , cuts in it 's er , it 's , it 's er , forces , and make sure that other services , like education , social services , libraries , highways and everything else will also be adequately funded in this county . |
| 24 | Torrential rain turned the main street through Peterchurch into a fast flowing river — cutting the village off and catching it 's residents by surprise . |
| 25 | and my Lord er in relation to this judgment er you 've got the courts setting out the principal at page er one stroke five , forty , paragraph fourteen of the judgment that 's the principal of suspension and it 's then got it 's conditions for suspension on the next page , paragraph twenty two |
| 26 | It 's attitudes like that which so frustrate doctors . |
| 27 | It 's queues like this which the new system is intended to shift . |
| 28 | It 's scenes like this that sheep farmers prefer to see , the Ewe licking her newborn lamb clean , forming a close bond in the process . |
| 29 | It 's scenes like these which Ruth Hilali claims to have come to Kurdistan to deal with . |
| 30 | And what we 're doing is if you just look at your pack now , everybody who writes to us , it does n't matter what they want , whether it 's favours of crackers , they 're getting a brochure which you know our brochure , which has the favours and crackers on . |