Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having looked at assessment and verification and the people involved it is appropriate to consider whether or not a process of approval ( sometimes called ‘ validation ’ ) should be developed and applied to organisations wishing to offer particular types of provision . |
| 2 | After a while I decided it was best to try and help her get on better with her father , and now by interfering between them I 've been the cause of her being kidnapped . |
| 3 | ‘ Obviously it is possible to stay cheaper than the price we quoted , but we felt it was impossible to show that in our leaflet , ’ said Clydesdale marketing director Stuart Laing . |
| 4 | Without waiting for Wexford 's consent to her reticence , she swept the quarrel aside and said , ‘ I felt it was useless to try and patch things up . |
| 5 | ‘ We felt it was important to try and make the programme last longer this time around so that the friendships made are n't lost . ’ |
| 6 | I mean the one is a classic one when she knew it was Scottish based that she passed any correspondence on |
| 7 | ‘ I was n't sure what you wanted , and I thought it was better to wait and get the whole lot . ’ |
| 8 | Treasurer and 47401 project Co-ordinator , Martin Measures commented : ‘ 47401 was the first of 20 ‘ Generator ’ Class 47 's built by Brush at Loughborough and the Society thought it was important to try and preserve one of these 20 non standard Class 47's . |
| 9 | His mother thought it was beautiful to behold and took a delight in allowing it to grow extra long . |
| 10 | Next door , through the partition wall , some shouts were audible , so muffled it was impossible to tell whether it was a violent assault or someone asking for his bath to be turned off . |
| 11 | Lord Justice McCowan said it was impossible to hold that the Home Secretary 's political judgment was one that no reasonable Home Secretary could hold . |
| 12 | Said it was all gone when we came in ! |
| 13 | Jean Robinson said it was unfair to advertise unless there really was a post available because people would waste time and energy applying for something that did n't exist . |
| 14 | Last week , Virgin said it was ready to settle if BA dropped a clause forbidding it from referring to the matter in future . |
| 15 | But Infas chief pollster Hans-Juergen Hoffmann said it was wrong to assume that the sudden explosion in neo-Nazi violence meant Germans as a whole were reverting to past attitudes . |
| 16 | Six to eight men hauled the Durham wagon round the streets — they said it was easier to move than it looked , as once it was rolling it was not difficult until it had to be stopped ! |
| 17 | Mrs Porter said it was difficult to say that local authorities should help Victim Support , but added : ‘ It would be nice if we could be considered because of our vital service . ’ |
| 18 | Dr Steel said it was difficult to estimate when the gene would be located but he thought it would be months rather than years . |
| 19 | In fact many women said it was kinder to cry than to be angry because , they claimed , if they said what they were really thinking their husbands would be so incredulous and so humiliated that the marriage would not survive . |
| 20 | The court considered it was relevant to discover that she had spent the day drinking more than twelve pints of lager and cider along with two bottles of wine , and had sexual intercourse with a soldier during the afternoon . |