Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] [prep] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Occasionally , this problem is genetic but more often it is caused by using too heavy creams around the eye area or not removing cleansing cream properly .
2 He also needs to cap the new price so that it is prevented from rising further over the remaining four years of construction if he is to convince bankers that they should continue to support Eurotunnel .
3 To be credible , it must be in a firm ‘ s best interest to carry out the threat at the time it is called upon to do so .
4 Climbing is second nature to all small felines and it is virtually impossible for a cat to switch off its urge to climb , even if it is punished for doing so .
5 It is made by gluing together three or more veneers , or thin sheets of wood , with the grain directions crossed .
6 It is stopped from passing completely into solution , partly by the large size of the cellulose molecules and , more , by the fact that , in natural cellulose , the whole system is tied together mechanically by the presence of the crystals , which are water-proof and form a good proportion of the whole mass .
7 This means it is committed to doing exactly the right thing .
8 The speed and extent of this physical change , since it is taken for granted once accomplished , have considerable implications .
9 It was created by sewing together carefully chosen bits and pieces of abstractions from various articles culled from the field 's diverse literature .
10 In part it was done by exploiting as fully as possible many small miscellaneous sources of income , such as fines on recusants and the revenue of vacant episcopal sees ; in part by careful and economic management — the household expenses were kept rigidly down in an age of inflation and the building of royal palaces was brought to an end ; in part by rewarding courtiers and officials from wardships and monopolies .
11 This strategy was transferred to the successive discrimination , and for at least some of the animals allowed immediate solution of that test — an animal that had learned to turn away from white in the left arm , say , would already be equipped to solve a successive discrimination in which it was rewarded for turning left when both arms were black and right when both were white .
12 The moves for an extended system of university education reach back to the 18405 when it was aimed at providing more qualified candidates for Anglican ordination , but it was very soon transformed into a more lay-oriented mission .
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