Example sentences of "[noun pl] and it [be] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision is likely to postpone a hearing on the charges for many months and it is now thought that the case could eventually be heard in Milan instead of Turin . |
| 2 | Firstly , it is inadvisable to take remedies consisting of mixtures as no homoeopathic provings have been done on mixtures and it is not known whether the effects of these are different from the effects of their individual components . |
| 3 | Gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips and it is generally agreed that oak gives the best flavour , although other woods are preferred in some part of the world . |
| 4 | Phthirus pubis is unable to survive away from the human host for more than 24 hours and it is readily killed by temperatures over 50°C . |
| 5 | Radiometric and spectrometric investigations of such waves indicated that the Cytherean source region was at a temperature of about 670 K. Moreover , radio waves at such wavelengths can readily traverse clouds and atmospheric gases and it was readily established that the Cytherean source region lay well below the cloud tops and was very probably the surface of Venus . |
| 6 | The IT industry has been subject to rapid development in recent years and it is confidently expected that this trend will continue . |
| 7 | The position of Gaelic has deteriorated dramatically in the intervening forty years and it is now argued convincingly that a local language is itself a development tool . |
| 8 | It is better manned , it has more resources and it is better equipped than any police force in British history . |
| 9 | The origins of dendrochronology lie in climate studies and it was then applied to dating . |
| 10 | West European governments never expected the Final Act to work an instant revolution in international affairs and it was always understood that many questions lay beyond its scope . |
| 11 | This is the method of knitting Fair Isle on the older push-button machines and it is also used with the ribber and double bed colour changer for double jacquard . |
| 12 | Flour from France , from the Moulin Corbeil , was imported , heavy bribes were paid to the Spaniards and it was then sold to either German or British commercial agents to feed the armies of those nations . |
| 13 | Something 's eating the profits and it 's not entered here . |
| 14 | The area is rich in raw materials such as timber and construction materials and it is also planned to attract ship repair , machinery manufacture and electronic assembly plants . |
| 15 | Developing countries have their own specific economic , political and social requirements and it is often felt that the media should ‘ carry out positive development tasks ’ ; that they should accept restrictions if the state so desires and that they should be subordinate to the needs ( economic , cultural , political ) of a developing state . |
| 16 | Subsequent investigations have led to some revisions of Gilbert 's original findings and it is now thought by some researchers that the laccoliths radiate from central discordant intrusions known as stocks ( Fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 17 | Coburn v. Colledge was a case arising from a contract for services and it is well established at common law that the cause of action in such cases accrues when the work is complete . |