Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 2 | Newcastle manager Keegan admitted : ‘ We created a lot of chances but it has to be said that it was a dubious penalty that gave us a goal . |
| 3 | It has to be said that it is an austere document which , although well designed and printed , offers little more than that for which it was intended . |
| 4 | The main advantage of this type of support is that it keeps the joint warm , but it has to be said that it is not really suitable for more recent or severe injuries . |
| 5 | But it needs to be said that it is not a belief that Richards himself takes for granted . |
| 6 | It needs to be recognized that it is the surface of any street or pavement that provides its essential character . |
| 7 | ‘ A minerals and waste local plan is about to be prepared and it will form the basis for the control and location of quarries and landfill sites in the county for the next 20 years , ’ said CLA regional secretary Jolyon Dodgson . |
| 8 | Not ail of the clearinghouses are ideally placed to fulfil this role , and even for the national clearinghouses there are difficulties to be faced when it is attempted . |
| 9 | As Burton-Roberts suggests , criterion A ( the requirement that elements in apposition refer to the same entity ) would have to be extended if it is to apply to sentential and other non-nominal appositions . |
| 10 | In civil legislation , there is clearly room for fault to be penalised if it is merely a mistake . |
| 11 | These juveniles should be feeding well on daphnia , brine shrimp and bloodworm , though the bloodworm will tend to be ignored once it has sunk . |
| 12 | The question was one which must often have arisen in this period of extensive rebuilding : Did an altar require to be reconsecrated after it had been moved ? |
| 13 | Similarly , light tries to travel in a straight line , but the curvature of space-time near the sun causes the light from distant stars to be bent if it passes near the sun . |
| 14 | I do n't want to be disturbed unless it 's absolutely necessary . |
| 15 | Conference delegates at the 1903 Congress of the International Abolitionist Federation insisted that prostitution needed to be opposed because it isolated women as an outcast class . |
| 16 | Simply this that any government of any colour , at any level , central or local and any organization charged with the responsibility of meeting the needs of elderly people which proceeds on the tacit assumption or makes the blatant assertion that there is no longer any poverty in Scotland is requiring to be contradicted because it is not true . |
| 17 | But now he was going into space , and when he had made his fortune he would pay for the whole of Mali to be irrigated so it was as green as France . |
| 18 | That is all well and good , but if separate nationhood is to be recognised when it comes to banding , the wishes of the separate nations should be heeded when it comes to the taxation that they want . |
| 19 | That one is deliberately being allowed to dry out because it 's got to be re-coopered cos it never worked properly . |
| 20 | Mother needed to be reassured that it would be all right to stop putting a nappy on Susan and to talk to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in the lavatory . |
| 21 | Are all teachers too good to be sacked because it is it is as rare as erm teeth in chickens . |
| 22 | What , no I do n't think so , the E E C should of be , should of said well if it has to be moved if it 's |
| 23 | Previously the government had argued that the slave trade was so profitable that the traders could pay for their own forts , but by the mid-eighteenth century this attitude had changed to an acceptance of the fact that the trade was so necessary for the sugar islands ( and the sugar islands so necessary for the British economy ) that the trade would have to be supported if it could not afford to meet these overhead costs . |
| 24 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 25 | During this stage Offline will request the appropriate media item to be mounted and it will copy the modules from the media item into the original LIFESPAN storage directory , from where they will be copied into the user 's directory . |
| 26 | More detailed work needs to be undertaken before it is possible to establish if there are geographical variations in the prevalence of this condition . |
| 27 | In the first place it is to be accepted that it is made in wide terms though it is not said that they are so imprecise that there is a doubt as to what is covered by the order . |
| 28 | In other words , you could ride into the ring with a home-made hard hat that would have to be accepted if it had a ‘ harness secured to the shell at more than two points ’ , but they can pull you up for wearing black jodhs ! |
| 29 | An article is more likely to be accepted if it says something new but this might annoy some of his party leaders . |
| 30 | ‘ She said immigration was an issue which ought to be raised because it was going to affect not only employment and social service benefits , but also cause homelessness . |