Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( There is no accepted name for the latter , but it may be called the casus male inclusus ) .
2 Even if one acknowledges the significance of the state itself as an agency , there is a danger that it may be given a role which is too sharply independent .
3 It is not as it may be interpreted a message of hope that the sun might still wake him but rather one of despair that even the sun is at a loss and does not know how to wake him .
4 It may be thought the height of irony that Rangers ' goalkeeper should demand this much attention at a club so dominant Goram has known domestic defeat only six times in 18 months since going to Ibrox from Easter Road for £1 million .
5 It should be noted the charge is under Case VI of Schedule D ( s677(6) ) .
6 His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’
7 They 're there every night , they see it done every night , they see how it should be done every night , but they ca n't do it themselves . ’
8 I think it should be done a lot younger as well .
9 If such a home places its residents under the care of a consultant psychiatrist , surely it should be called a hospital .
10 Yes , I think this is what 's tended to happen is people call the system , i.e. the central processing unit — which is really the microprocessor , the memory and the interface circuits — as a microprocessor , when really it should be called a microcomputer .
11 Chairman , I think I should say in proposing the proposed Policy E two it should be stressed the County Council 's not seeking to introduce a policy of restraint and restriction on the development which attempts to mirror that already applying within any of the nationally designated areas .
12 While it must be said the illumination does advertise the shop it greatly brightens the area with its window displays .
13 If 1T82 had anything to do with the outbreak of mass hysteria among would-be buyers , sellers , makers , and so on of microcomputers , then it must be judged a success .
14 It might be argued a contrario that the term " shop assistant , draper 's assistant etc. " which is recorded for some of the bridegrooms , suggests that " grocer does indeed refer to a shopkeeper .
15 It might be called a polyamino acid , because the basic units are amino acids .
16 Point 1 made by Bowley is a more general and fundamental one than the other three and deserves special comment ; it might be called the principle of parsimony .
17 No , you 'll have a certificate then , and all , saying that the caravan covered , it 'll be tested every year then .
18 Obviously all of this detail I explain to you here I 'm just giving you a brief overview it 'll be explained a lot more on the training course .
19 McJannet said : ‘ With both Darlington and Torquay in the bottom three , it could be called a six-pointer .
20 It could be called the efficiency function of the new system .
21 This contained a variety of animals — fowl and sixty-three unspecified small birds — but before it could be served the platform supporting it gave way and the pie slipped to the ground .
22 It could be said the key to his personality and the contribution which he has made to the diocese of Middlesbrough as Bishop is unfolded in an eloquent way by the new Cathedral which he caused to be built .
23 The strategy effectively neutralised what the Conservatives had hoped would be a vote-winner with an electorate wary about an upsurge in union power under Labour if it could be made an issue .
24 It could be considered a waste of prime parliamentary time .
25 Overall , Siemens AG was able to give little cheer to shareholders , and the shares were off 2.30 marks at 663.10 early yesterday after the company warned that it would be counted a success if 1992-93 profits were stable with last year — incoming orders in the first five months of this fiscal fell 2% , although it looks for a 4.7% rise for the full year ; group sales in the first five months rose 3% to the equivalent of about $18,500m .
26 In fact we i it would expressed interest it will be expressed a week on Monday .
27 It will be paid a fee for its various operating services estimated at between $15,000 and $50,000 per unit per country plus a 5% sales commission at transfer cost .
28 Milton 's high style allowed Samson to be read in a manner which reassured the very groups it can be argued the poem attacks .
29 For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner .
30 If it can be called a childhood , that is : from the nursery where he learned to be ‘ Chairman Mao 's Good Little Boy ’ onwards , his early life was racked by one political movement after another .
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