Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [modal v] [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amateur theatre flourishes almost everywhere , and when you 're beginning it can not be stressed too strongly that it is desirable to obtain some actual stage experience before jumping into the big pool of drama school , or even summer school . |
| 2 | If their own heart is breaking it should not be allowed to show . |
| 3 | ‘ In 1975 , when we started doing this , all my competition were saying it could n't be done . |
| 4 | ‘ In 1975 , when we started doing this , all my competition were saying it could n't be done . |
| 5 | A hard hitting television campaign , so shocking it ca n't be shown before 9 p.m. , begins tonight . |
| 6 | Arguably just such a change took place in the early 1980s , and the pressures encouraging it could only be understood in the context of shifts in the wider political economy . |
| 7 | Availability of back-up should not be wholly influenced by available resources and the onus of finding it must not be left to the worker . |
| 8 | Tommy and Iain journey back and forth between Wiltshire Lane and Hazeldene Drive , wondering what to do with Christopher 's body , and hoping it will not be discovered . |
| 9 | ‘ The proposition need not be questioned that where an Act purports , invalidly , to require a payment to be made , leaving the liability to be enforced by means of an action in which the invalidity of the statute is an available defence , a person who might have relied upon that defence but has paid without raising it should not be held , just because he was obeying the de facto command of a legislature , to have made the payment involuntarily . |