Example sentences of "it [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he was n't going to let them go , I mean we were n't told any of that on the news , there was n't a word of that , it only be that from the papers that we 'd got |
| 2 | The only thing that would have made it better was if it was in 3-D . ’ |
| 3 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 4 | You have to erm spend progressively more because it , it , it , it just is as you say much much harder to get down . |
| 5 | Half those questioned had not heard of SERPS — which might not have been surprising had it not been that most were members of it . |
| 6 | If anything , by the end of the nineteenth century it was the expanding Polish population of the partition areas that needed living space , and the German Ostflucht might well have given it to them had it not been that Germany desperately needed to maintain the spluttering fiction of the drive to the east to divert and subvert internal political pressures . |
| 7 | It becomes an argument about propriety : Smith says ‘ May it not be that in woman the physical pain neutralizes the sexual emotions which would otherwise … tend very much to alter our estimation of the modesty and retiredness proper to the sex , and which are never more prominent or more admirable than on these occasions ? ’ |
| 8 | Could it not be that during cleavage , when the egg divides up , each cell acquires special determinants , either cytoplasmic or nuclear , which would control the cell 's future development ? |
| 9 | Warlow and his supporters point to the fact that certain quasars ( highly energetic galaxies ) have jets of material emerging from their cores : could it not be that stars and big gassy planets can behave analogously ? |
| 10 | Might it not be that the glowing auras are in fact photographs of the soul ? |
| 11 | Could it not be that today 's mania for ‘ disseminating ’ and ‘ promoting ’ culture expressions which should be banned has actually caused the prevailing sterility ? |
| 12 | Could it not be that the same was true in quantum theory ? |
| 13 | May it not be that the outcome reflects the real motive — the wish to procure an external realization of a regressive , inner phantasy , that of the supreme parent of earliest childhood ? |
| 14 | I stare at the muddied , warped little card sealed in a deal-sized plastic bag , recognising my own writing and feeling my mouth go even drier than it already is and I can only gibber something about , Well , it looks like my writing but , I mean , and anyway , somebody , anybody could have taken that , I mean … but they just look quietly pleased and the questions go on . |
| 15 | oh it , it depends , I do n't think ours , we 've actually got twenty five pound at the moment , that 's , I du n no , that 's , that 's what it normally is and it 's twenty five P or thirty |
| 16 | What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out . |
| 17 | The reason you do it usually is because if you do n't succeed you 're not going to eat . |
| 18 | Er again , it 's all down to where you 're going to stand to take the photograph , and I 'm not so sure that you I think you 've gone a little , no you know , I , I criticized the other one a bit , from the same person I think it possibly is because it 's the same style , the same sort of mounting . |
| 19 | Could it possibly be that his knowledge is power over you ? |
| 20 | ( Indeed , is Christianity true : could it possibly be that one was raised from the dead ? ) |
| 21 | Could it possibly be that she was missing something ? |
| 22 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 23 | Because you can never go back to yesterday , if you came in last year or five years ago , ten years ago or longer , some of you have been in the truth for many , many years and it is nearer now than it ever was when you first came along and joined Jehovah 's people and as it says the night is well along and if any of us have ever worked on the night shift , I think we 're all well aware are n't we that when the night is well along and |
| 24 | In the third place , it still is or may be a condition of the validity of a voluntary dealing by the wife for the advantage of her husband that she really obtained an adequate understanding of the actual nature and consequences of the transaction . |
| 25 | I think a lot of people are put off computing by the thought that it 's very technical and very difficult to get into , and I think in some ways it still is and there 's a sort of group of experts who rather jealously guard their knowledge , so in that sense , yes , they could short cut and remove skills that perhaps people should have . |
| 26 | ‘ This is just as it always was except that I usually have some of his sketch books , a few of his letters , and his work-book on display , but those things are on loan to the exhibition . ’ |
| 27 | Can I close by thanking Rod our Chief Racing Coach for what I thought was a very excellent presentation of the R Y A Ye Year of Youth Sailing and I have great pleasure in launching that initiative for ts er this year 's Earls Court Boat Show again it seems horribly self evident that it 's only through increasing the involvement of the young that we assure thriving clubs and associations and classes for the future but nobody up here is going to say that it 's easy and I believe though that the work that the official , the officers and the R Y A put together will make it easier than it once was and I hope that the literature that they have put together and the programme that they have put together will be a help to all of you so please make use of it . |
| 28 | In the latter case external coercion is no longer internalized in the way it once was because of the permissive regimes of child-rearing and a cultural crisis affecting the superego , about which more will be said later . |
| 29 | First , the NHS is no longer as progressively financed as it once was because of the current regressive system of taxation . |
| 30 | Might it also be that the common phenomenon of token adoption of an innovation is an example of assimilation without accommodation ? |