Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law . |
| 2 | It was a most successful party , and the only person who failed to enjoy it was the one for whom it had been given . |
| 3 | Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them . |
| 4 | It was going to be used as a gardening shed for tomatoes but for me it has been the history and finding out about its past that has been the fun . |
| 5 | ‘ For me it 's been exactly the opposite ; I 've never been healthier — and I 'm much more religious than when I started doing this . |
| 6 | But for me it 's been well worthwhile . |
| 7 | We talk about decisions as if there was always a point in time before which the decision was not made arid after which it has been made . |
| 8 | At all stages in the development of armory , and in all the centuries during which it has been in use , there have been two conflicting underlying factors , and it is important that the local historian be aware of them from the outset , so that if false trails are followed they are not followed for long . |
| 9 | Here accountability is clearly defined , the routes and paths through which it flows are easily discerned , often articulated and condition the nature , state and integrity of the whole enterprise . |
| 10 | Past history is thus significant as the occasion by which we have been enabled to see what otherwise we might have failed to grasp ; but the real content of the revelation is in principle detachable from the particular history through which it has been manifested . |
| 11 | But the agency does have the job of approving materials and devices ( as well as drugs ) intended for the treatment of disease , and way back in the late 1960s it rightly concluded that none of the artificial hearts available was fit for the task for which it had been designed . |
| 12 | Inevitably , government help undermined the bank 's ability to do the job for which it had been established , and in 1897 the Poles opened the new Land Purchase Bank . |
| 13 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 14 | In Soho the Partisan coffee bar , founded by the New Left Review — which had grown out of the New Reasoner in 1960- was attracting a far more Bohemian and disreputable crowd than the straighter new leftists for which it had been intended . |
| 15 | The immediate catalyst for his removal was an inept press conference on Dec. 5 in which he declared the recession to be abating , only hours before the publication of official figures which showed that GDP had declined 0.3 per cent in the three months to September , the sixth successive quarter for which it had been either static or negative . |
| 16 | It had been particularly disastrous in Germany and Britain , the countries for which it had been designed . |
| 17 | The National Front , also , has failed to make the breakthrough for which it had been hoping . |
| 18 | The actual amount disbursed under the scheme in the two years for which it ran was £17 million , not £24 million . |
| 19 | The right to a trade mark can be assigned only in connection with the goodwill of the business concerned in the goods for which it has been registered , and comes to an end with that goodwill . |
| 20 | The total number of persons using the accommodation shall not exceed the number for which it has been booked ; |
| 21 | Instead of the bureaucracy continuing to serve the main purpose for which it has been set up there is an obsession with procedure , because procedure has to serve as the guideline in the absence of anything else . |
| 22 | Much must also depend on the , as yet unknown , date of the constitution of the civitas Carvetiorum , for which it has been claimed that Carlisle acted as a capital . |
| 23 | Rosa Jacobsen confirmed in Elisabeth her determined quest , not directly , but indirectly , for Rosa was like Marie Grubbe , of whom it had been written that she was someone who ‘ sought flowers in the tree of life where others would never think to look — under dark leaves and on dry branches ’ . |
| 24 | Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style . |
| 25 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 26 | Sometimes conditions could be even worse : Godwin , for example , describes a London court where ‘ the basement story of nearly all the houses was filled with foetid refuse , of which it had been the receptacle for years ’ , and one water barrel of 50 to 60 gallons is intended to serve two houses , containing between them at least a hundred people . |
| 27 | The Nikola Petkov Bulgarian Agrarian Party ( BZNS ) campaigned separately from the UDF , of which it had been a partner in the 1990 elections . |
| 28 | The review may be evaluated generally by how effectively and efficiently it met the objectives set out in Document 1 , on the basis of which it had been negotiated . |
| 29 | In working towards the growth of a total quality culture it seeks to impact on all aspects of Scottish life , encompassing corporate responsibility and individual quality awareness both of which it believes are fundamental to long-term Scottish success . |
| 30 | From detailed descriptions of elements out of which it has been made . |