Example sentences of "[noun pl] it be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all types of contracts , particularly the last , definition of the risks it is intended to cover and the manner in which they will be allocated is of great importance . |
| 2 | Moroni it was called . |
| 3 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |
| 4 | For centuries it was persecuted and the cruelties heaped upon it were given the full backing of the Church . |
| 5 | For centuries it was ordained that , despite the evidence , everything in the Universe circled the Earth : a number of people were put to death because they happened to disagree . |
| 6 | Restless legs it 's called . |
| 7 | To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations . |
| 8 | In one study of a small group of wrist-slashers it was found that more than half were well , or had shown improvement , 5–6 years later ( Nelson and Grunebaum 1971 ) . |
| 9 | That was the lure of Persia — the fantastic attractions it was held for Westerner ever since the seventeenth century , when traders , ambassadors and princes began to bring back exotic spices , silks and tales . |
| 10 | Owing to lack of funds it was decided in 1902 that " the question of a National Home for the poor aged deaf must be left in abeyance until more funds became available " . |
| 11 | Although no requests were made for funds it was agreed to donate £20 to the Westside Jazz Band and £10 to the Currie High School Country Dance Band . |
| 12 | As it happens , in the early days of computers it was thought that it would be only a few years before computers would be able to understand natural language . |
| 13 | It sits upon a throne , an absolute monarch , unafraid of any princely off-spring still unborn and by its Subjects it is hated , feared , revered and loved , known by all and recognized by none . |
| 14 | From these relationships it was established that total leakages ( T + S + M ) must equal total injections ( G + I + X ) . |
| 15 | Once again , plot is conceived of as compositional process , a bringing-into-being ; in other words it is conceived as something quite different from what one of the novel 's characters describes as a ‘ crappy mystical adventure story ’ . |
| 16 | In other words it is said that a verdict of death aggravated by lack of care may be appropriate once there is an inquest but the availability of such a verdict does not determine the question whether or not there should be an inquest . |
| 17 | In other words it is assumed that the difficulty of the item will be the same for any individual irrespective of his or her previous learning experiences etc . |
| 18 | In other words it was recognised that community care is not necessarily , and not for ail , a cheaper form of care . |
| 19 | The town of La Rochelle was granted a " commune " , in other words it was given rights of self-government and allowed to elect a mayor instead of having to put up with being ruled by an official imposed upon it from above . |
| 20 | Although they are not involved in the formal festivities it is known the Duke of York and the Queen wanted them nearby so they could enjoy seeing the children . |
| 21 | When considering a whole range of variables it is found that those social characteristics indicative of a low position of wealth or status do not appear among persons treated as criminal more often than one would expect from their proportion among the general population . |
| 22 | The bricks it was built of were old and crumbly and very pale red . |
| 23 | By providing Moscow with reassurance on the question of borders it was hoped to pave the way to greater contacts across the iron curtain and evolutionary changes in Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | RD users include Chris Novoselic of Nirvana and the Mission 's Craig Adams , to whom this particular specimen belongs , and on whose early tours and recordings it was used to great effect , before it was trashed at a gig in 1987 . |
| 25 | Where a title appeared as a class reader in three or more schools it was regarded as ‘ well-used ’ overall . |
| 26 | ( After discussion with staff in schools it was agreed that the checklist was an inappropriate means of analysis for a satirical fable such as Animal Farm . ) |
| 27 | ( 4 ) Subsection ( 3 ) above does not apply where a society or associated body is authorised by the scheme to relieve itself of its obligation to take the steps it is directed to take or pay the compensation awarded by the society 's undertaking an obligation to give the requisite publicity for the reasons for not doing so and the society undertakes that obligation . |
| 28 | Unisys Corp has signed up to use Univel Inc 's UnixWare as the operating system on those iAPX-86-based U 6000 workstations and entry-level servers it 's expected to introduce this spring : the agreement is said to mark the start of a close strategic alliance between the pair . |
| 29 | Unisys Corp has signed up to use Univel Inc 's UnixWare as the operating system on those Intel-based Unix-run U 6000 workstations and entry-level servers it 's expected to introduce later this spring ( UX No 420 ) . |
| 30 | At the end of four months it was discovered that he was only just sixteen . |