Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun sg] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hall argued , however , that even this least satisfactory outcome would be worth while if it meant some of the long-term unemployed in the inner cities obtained jobs , and were thus able to climb up the skills and income levels . |
| 2 | Vanguard had performed well in the 1974 elections but , as Sarah Nelson notes , ‘ The VUP 's future was bound to be in doubt once it shed its two distinctive Vanguard features : militant opposition to British domination and alliance with workers and paramilitants . ’ |
| 3 | If the probe moves along a radius with , then For simplicity it can be imagined that the probe would have been be at rest if it had started at an infinite distance from the hole ; then the kinetic energy parameter T vanishes and the equation reduces further to where , as usual , . |
| 4 | Do Amaral said the control tower were unaware of the plane being in trouble as it came in to land . |
| 5 | Already the tanks ahead were in action and it seemed as though they had made contact with , and destroyed the majority of the enemy flank guard . |
| 6 | Nothing was worth doing unless it gave pleasure , he had argued in Ink . |
| 7 | The official compilation was of moment because it ensured that certain general claims of the papacy , and the specific reasons for these claims , were not lost sight of in the later history of the papacy . |
| 8 | A new regime behind bars The prison system in independent Latvia was in disarray so it called in a troubleshooter from Scotland to help . |
| 9 | Here were editions esteemed as being the first , and there stood scarcely less regarded as being the last and the best ; here was a book valued because it had the author 's final improvements , and there is another which ( strange to tell ! ) was in request because it had them not . |
| 10 | Mr Sugar 's other main company interest , Tottenham Hotspur , was in demand as it climbed 14p to 103p over speculation that chief executive Terry Venables might buy Mr Sugar 's stake in the club . |
| 11 | 15 years ago MOVIES were a major part of the schedules although the film of Up Pompeii starring Frankie ( Please yourself , missus ) Howerd was on back where it started on the small screen . |
| 12 | An urgent message for the CO one morning was a very welcome change for his staff , especially as the note was by hand and it came from Lord Halifax . |