Example sentences of "it be [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that particular day I I was coming home from work and it were quarter to nine , I 'd just finished work . |
| 2 | You are lucky enough to have Bella here to teach you , and your mother also , and as you know , I have undertaken to instruct you in history , since I am the one who has seen such a lot of it , as it were face to face . |
| 3 | The supermarket 's suppliers Gulf Oil , based in Cheltenham , said it was reacting to a local situation and Tesco says the cut is part of it 's service to customers , denying it 's creating an artificially low price . |
| 4 | It 's home to The Ski School Of Great Britain and nearby Murren has been the backdrop for films including James Bond 's On Her Majesty 's Secret Service — remember the revolving restaurant ? |
| 5 | It 's home to the vast fish plants which process two and a half million tons of fishmeal every year … to be sold as animal feed . |
| 6 | But it 's home to the Oxford School 's Sailing Association . |
| 7 | It 's home to a number of rare trees and wildflowers . |
| 8 | And it 's home to a wealth of wildlife . |
| 9 | Still no goals , it 's play to Gascoigne , Gascoigne now still going forward , Gascoigne on the edge of the penalty , looking for the one two , he gets the one two , great tackle there by Les Robinson , there 's still a chance to Spurs Steve Foster , chance now — and it 's a goal to Spurs . |
| 10 | It 's quarter to three by this time and still he 's had no lunch … |
| 11 | Of course — it 's quarter to three — I 'm not going to get any lunch … |
| 12 | It 's not quarter to three here — it 's quarter to three at Paddington ! |
| 13 | ‘ It 's quarter to twelve , ’ said David . |
| 14 | Right this minute now cos it 's quarter to nine already , we need to be getting going to school considering we were n't going five minutes ago and now we are ! |
| 15 | Mm it 's quarter to ten already |
| 16 | Gosh di do you know it 's quarter to four ! |
| 17 | Well I looked at that and I thought I thought well I 'm , I 'm sure it 's quarter to and checked on mine . |
| 18 | It 's quarter to seven . |
| 19 | It 's quarter to ten . |
| 20 | I was , I was quietly groaning away thinking oh God it 's quarter to eight thank God I have n't got ta get up . |
| 21 | Erm , his son Nick , he 's a computer programmer for I C L , but I believe it 's now changed it 's name to D two B. Caroline 's at Essex University taking a Master 's Degree in Art , and Christopher 's still at school . |
| 22 | It is possible to attempt to justify poor practice by claiming that it 's response to parents wishes : silent classrooms brought about by severe discipline , numerous paper exercises completed to provide evidence of industry and antiquated forms of behaviour paraded as good manners are just some examples . |
| 23 | So mass is a sort of a bit like resistance , it 's resistance to acceleration . |
| 24 | It 's back to front , |
| 25 | ) ‘ It is not a beauty , to be sure , ’ Coleridge wrote to Poole on 28 November ; ‘ but it 's vicinity to you shall overbalance it 's Defects . ’ |
| 26 | It is nicknamed Southyork because of it 's resemblance to R J Ewing 's ranch , Southfork from the soap opera , Dallas ! |
| 27 | After five months of modifications , overhauling and a complete refurbishment by Stoddard 's own engineers and tuners , the latest Bonded Machine is on it 's way to the Wellco Corporation in Georgia . |
| 28 | Afterwards through her affair with the Frenchman she is content because as she says ‘ the linnet found it 's way to the sky ’ . |
| 29 | They 're the times when when actually look at which ones we 'd use remember the strengths in these some of the biggest yes you can go into greater detail you can see the reaction face to face you 'll get feedback straight away verbal as well as non-verbal er you know immediately what the answer is if there 's if you 're waiting for some sort of reply to it , you 'll have more effect because it 's face to face erm , cheap on material but it 's expensive on time you do n't have a formal written record and it can be very time consuming . |
| 30 | Doing things communicating with people verbally can mean a lot more now sometimes with a lot of bureaucracy you can get sucked in to putting everything down on paper but it does n't mean as much as it does when it 's face to face communication . |