Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb -s] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm we 've we 've actually developed social housing really rather as it 's been an opportunity we 've grabbed it and we 've done it , you know , some of it 's been very very good an and nobody 's knocking that but I think it is time that we took stock and actually had a a proper policy and a proper strategy on sa on social housing . |
| 2 | ‘ I know we 've had some bad times recently and a lot of it 's been my fault . |
| 3 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 4 | This is very attractive farmland , wide open fields , very intensively farmed , erm it 's very difficult to spot the aerodrome from driving round the area at all , erm some of it 's been taken up and incorporated into fields . |
| 5 | It seems to me that lot of it 's been dominated by various sort of rather obscure sounding Germans . |
| 6 | Most of it has been proved wrong . |
| 7 | Much of it has been known before , from the account published by J. C. Masterman — one of the MI5 men concerned — in 1972 . |
| 8 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 9 | A lot of it has been focused on my body — first for being too fat , now for being too thin . |
| 10 | Once most of it has been removed , put the paint brush back in clean turps for about half an hour , and repeat . |
| 11 | Most of it has been demolished but some forms part of Kings Mill House . |
| 12 | They can now say that some of it has been in the ground for more than a million years . |
| 13 | The poetry of China is even more extensive than that of Europe , and only the surface of it has been scratched by the West . |
| 14 | If we consider the environment in the broadest sense , much monitoring of it has been in progress for many years and by an enormous diversity of organizations in the UK ; these include the DoE , the Forestry Commission , the Nature Conservancy , the Health and Safety Executive , local authorities , the component members of the Natural Environment Research Council ( such as the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology and the British Antarctic Survey ) , individuals or research groups in academia , the CEGB , the Friends of the Earth , and UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development ( CEED ) ( 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Because the land here is valuable most of it has been bought for shops and offices , many rebuilt in high multi-storey blocks . |
| 16 | Their output has been prodigious — and most of it has been perfectly intelligible , even to those who would rather it were not . |
| 17 | ‘ Some of it has been Sunday League stuff — and that is with due respect to anyone in the Sunday League . |
| 18 | The bulk of it has been removed , but the 50-year-old wooded floor remained . |
| 19 | A customised robust variant of it has been designed for the Ministry of Defence under quality-assurance procedures . |
| 20 | Their preferred description of it has been overinclusive thinking which has frequently been used to explain certain forms of thought disorder seen in psychotic patients , such as the tendency to cognitive ‘ slippage ’ , loosely associated ideation , and difficulty in maintaining a tight boundary for abstract concepts . |
| 21 | Some of it has been disturbed by later developments : the site of the Early Iron Age , classical and Hellenistic city of Knossos overlaps with that of the Minoan city ( Hood and Smyth 1981 ) — but nevertheless much remains to be excavated . |
| 22 | Some of it has been established ‘ good practice ’ for several years , such as Portage , singled out for mention in the Warnock Report . |
| 23 | Much of it has been in the nature of self-examination : not least because the achievement of a high rate of economic growth became the central aim of political endeavour . |
| 24 | The satisfaction may be deflected or inhibited after a certain degree of it has been obtained , and then Freud speaks of ‘ instincts which are inhibited in respect of their aim ’ . |
| 25 | In terms of the content of this newer work — the question that is so often evaded — it is probably true to say that much of it has been ultimately concerned with the processes and exercise of power . |
| 26 | Some of it has been reclaimed for housing , new industry or agriculture but much remains to disfigure the landscape . |
| 27 | Some of it has been seen as justifiable because it seeks to ensure competition and prevent monopoly . |
| 28 | But much of it has been regarded as stemming from forces eager to interfere with and undermine the free economy , shifting the locus of decision from the market place and into the political arena . |
| 29 | They therefore rarely see ‘ the complete picture ’ and tend to lose track of an issue once discussion of it has been concluded . |
| 30 | There 's a , apparently a lot of it has been affected by Georgia 's not that far away is it ? |