Example sentences of "it be [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 2 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 3 | What life will it be for a child stuck in here ? ’ |
| 4 | What does that come to , without doing it , what would it be as a decimal ? |
| 5 | Then , and only then , will it be in a position to force political parties to act . |
| 6 | The bold structure of its theories rises , as it were above a swamp . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now , the means whereby the standards of the higher courses , devised by the new polytechnics , could be validated and monitored were also at hand , with the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) , granted its Royal Charter in 1964 , and charged with ensuring that the courses approved by it were of a standard at least equivalent to similar courses in the universities . |
| 10 | Liquid products for manual use : This is calculated by standardising arithmetically the price to achieve a true cost which represents the price the product would be if it were at a standard concentration of 30 per cent . |
| 11 | That 's right , the , the , the id rewards the ego as it were with a feeling of pleasure when it 's when it 's met its demand . |
| 12 | It were like a it were like a a toffee . |
| 13 | It were like a it were like a a toffee . |
| 14 | Well i it were like a proper , er i in fact , they were more professional than a proper salon . |
| 15 | she found this booklet and it were like a cheque book |
| 16 | These benefits included , he proposed : " Morals reformed , health preserved , industry invigorated , instruction diffused , public burthens lightened , Economy seated , as it were upon a rock … all by a simple idea in Architecture ! " |
| 17 | Yet the polls show that most voters want inflation stopped , and the main opposition , the Workers ' party , while formally denouncing the plan as ‘ authoritarian , demagogic , privatising and favourable to foreign capital ’ , may merely wish it were in a position to do likewise . |
| 18 | Alternatively , you could create a small design as though it were in a vase or a natural spray , and then surround it with an archway of flowers This would then have no mount , but just a plainish frame , to avoid the overall effect seeming too cluttered . |
| 19 | There the nectar does not evaporate as quickly as it would if it were in a more exposed position . |
| 20 | But then , urged on as it were by a series of multiple lightning flashes , it hesitated no more and , instead of increasing gradually from the first tentative shower , the water gushed forth in a vast fountain . |
| 21 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
| 22 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 23 | I was just envisaging it being like a rabbit or something . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's past a joke now . |
| 25 | Erm it 's with a view to in fact er Dr 's point that I want to speak . |
| 26 | Erm , I , it 's not the shooting is , most certainly , as long as it 's with a a qualified marksman |
| 27 | I 've fallen in love again — this time it 's with a really nice army officer called Pogo . |
| 28 | the second book down , it 's with a mauve coloured book |
| 29 | There 's no excitement attached to it — unless it 's with a male companion . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Not when it 's with a man who has no regard for her welfare . ’ |