Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | John but mind you , John has been insistent on it , he |
| 2 | The participants were willing and the setting was ideal ; they 'd been close to it often enough , so what was happening now ? |
| 3 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 4 | For it to have left archaeological evidence it would have been necessary for it to have been manifested by a physical act of some kind , which would necessarily need to result in the production of something capable of preservation in the archaeological context . |
| 5 | The growing importance of trade unions in the 1860s registered this , the very existence — not to mention the strength — of the International would have been impossible without it . |
| 6 | As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it . |
| 7 | When you ca n't ever have been guilty of it . ’ |
| 8 | Æthelred , Harold Harefoot , Harthacnut and Edward may all have been guilty of it , and there seems no reason why Cnut should have been an exception . |
| 9 | You could have been involved in it up to your neck . ’ |
| 10 | The ‘ climate ’ would have been wrong for it . |
| 11 | With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it . |
| 12 | The Dutch should have been aware of it , but strangely the RLD gave the KLM DC-10s a Netherlands certificate of airworthiness , or rather validated the US certificate , notwithstanding their considerable reservations about the strength or ventilation of the cabin floor . |
| 13 | If it had n't been for Josie , she would n't even have been aware of it . |
| 14 | He could not have been aware of it , for it was the only untidy thing in the room , a banner of disorder in the midst of the most rigid ranking . |
| 15 | I have a great love of the choral music repertory and my training would have been incomplete without it at this stage stage . |
| 16 | Your husband would have been entitled to it . |
| 17 | Hence the strategy of the working class is worked out in terms of the opportunities open to it in a particular situation — or rather in terms of the opportunities that Poulantzas claims would have been open to it had the class itself been quite different . |
| 18 | As for boffin , although the Oxford English Dictionary states that its etymology is unknown , I have conjectured that this same purist Huxley may inadvertently have been responsible for it . |
| 19 | I visited the chapel at Strangeways prison to see the great destruction that had occurred , and I wondered whether human beings could have been responsible for it . |
| 20 | Friend of mine , I had a beer with in the week , showed me his new car , and he said the big irritation is it does n't centrally lock , having been used to it . |
| 21 | And I suppose being predictable about it all , I better play this for you if you 're on your way to an aerobics keep fit class some time this afternoon , or this evening . |
| 22 | That the fox was exhausted is questionable for it did gain the cover of the woods and in all probability survived . |
| 23 | The curious fact is , however , that initially he seems to have been opposed to it , and , in altering his position , was largely persuaded by the TUC General Council . |
| 24 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 25 | Unlike the French , the English song-composers were still wide open to Italian influence — and to the new monodic style before the Germans seem to have been aware of it . |
| 26 | If Lear was unhappy working on the Birds of Europe , Gould is unlikely to have been aware of it , or paid him much notice . |
| 27 | Erm keeps giving little bits erm It was when he was a child apparently , he claims to have been aware of it , you know ? |
| 28 | apart from being positive in putting your point across and erm being clear in things that you say things that you do being strong about it |
| 29 | erm This is quite an interesting cartoon , and really has no connection with either St Aldate 's or Oxford , erm but it was actually published in 1642 , and it shows the two sides , the Roundheads and the Cavaliers , and what I think is interesting about it is that it does seem to be quite objective , it does n't seem to be particularly getting at one side or the other , which is very rare for the kind of erm cartoons that were later issued during the war . |
| 30 | It had , however , been the only one that Rory had been able to lay hold of , and at first he had been proud of it . |