Example sentences of "[noun] it be [verb] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 2 | The second largest backer , South Africa , said on Monday it was suspending aid and demanded the withdrawal of mercenaries . |
| 3 | The second largest backer , South Africa , said on Monday it was suspending aid and demanded the withdrawal of mercenaries . |
| 4 | The second largest backer , South Africa , said on Monday it was suspending aid and demanded the withdrawal of mercenaries . |
| 5 | As Lord Diplock pointed out in 1981 , on the one hand it constitutes ‘ a major invasion of privacy ’ , while on the other it is an important weapon available to the police and the security services , whose business it is to maintain law and order and protect national security . |
| 6 | In Norway it 's thinking day as well , except for Switzerland ! |
| 7 | Vivid Publishing in Los Altos , California , makers of the TypeView font utility for Next , has come up with an environmentally aware software packaging scheme it 's calling EarthPack and challenging other software vendors to do the same : it 's making the specifications available to any who inquire and will license the EarthPack name free of charge . |
| 8 | By this time it was approaching midnight and when I got back to camp and rang Bomber Command the duty officer was most reluctant to put me through to " Bomber " Harris . |
| 9 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |