Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a functional association is declared it has then to be checked and maintained . |
| 2 | When we say when we say that that we stage door club is closed it closed in the place it 's not open every evening but we do actually let it out we let it out to companies and whatever conference or companies who want a facility or meeting place something we do actually market that and we do actually ask people if they want to use it and in fact it has been taken up there . |
| 3 | If the light is absorbed it reads ‘ 0 ’ ( see diagram above ) . |
| 4 | Once programme momentum is lost it becomes twice as hard to generate it again . |
| 5 | With 15 to 20 per cent of tin or more , the alloy becomes brittle and almost unworkable , although it can still be cast to shape , and as more tin is added it becomes whiter in colour . |
| 6 | The problem with dinghy sailing is that once the sailing bug is caught it grabs hold . |
| 7 | As soon as a key was inserted it rang a loud alarm bell and palace guards would rush in with drawn swords . |
| 8 | The water 's work being done it passed into the Swilgate , this wending its way to the outskirts of Tewkesbury , where it joins the Severn . |
| 9 | ‘ The neural net records all details of a scene — body posture , words , tone of voice , movement — and when the scene is replayed it enhances certain features to make the record less ambiguous . ’ |
| 10 | Thus when the glider is launched it takes a second cable and parachute up with it . |
| 11 | When the climb is completed it seems likely to enter the elite F8c+ club — about E10 . |
| 12 | If the notes of elderly patients alleged to have died from asthma are examined it seems that most of them had fixed airways obstruction , with little evidence of having had asthma , and that most died of something else . |
| 13 | Given that the biogenic character of aggression is established it does not exculpate other sources of influence , namely social and psychological , from responsibility for the attacks people make upon one another . |
| 14 | But before any package is made it has to be designed and tested to make sure it meets all the legal , technical and commercial needs . |
| 15 | Actually , although I said ‘ he ’ , when the body was examined it turned out to be that of a woman in male dress . |
| 16 | Yet as the evidence is unfolded it becomes increasingly incongruous that the mandarins of Whitehall should claim so little when they patently control so much . |
| 17 | When the instruction is executed it adds an increment value to the count , and tests whether the count has reached a limit value . |
| 18 | It is evident that however the relationship is conceived it contains many elements of disorder and conflict , and that if there is not a substantial movement , in the medium-term future , towards greater economic equality among the nations of the world , the prospects for peaceful international cooperation will become still more discouraging . |
| 19 | Once a surface is disinfected it tends to remain so until used . |
| 20 | Ever since the Peace People organisation was formed it has run a number of services which still continue today . |
| 21 | When Chadwick 's comments on the trade are examined it becomes abundantly clear why hire companies such as Robert Green 's were required : ‘ The number of persons whose sole business is that of undertaker , whose names are enumerated in the post-office directory for the year 1843 for the metropolis , is 275 . |
| 22 | Some anthropologists would counter these examples by arguing that there actually are class-like phenomena in such states ( Terray , 1975 ) , by pointing out the difference in access to the means of production between elders and juniors and men and women , but even if this argument is accepted it gives little support to the general theory in that such ‘ class ’ differences also occur in clearly stateless societies . |
| 23 | Whichever way word- processing is used it gives learners the means of refining text until it satisfies them . |
| 24 | Direct blocks in kung fu hardly exist ; if a block is made it does not stop dead upon impact . |
| 25 | Almost without exception , if any comment is made it includes a reference to the immense improvement in the health and manners of the children and to their gains in weight … |
| 26 | When the paper was removed it lifted up the wax-ground where the pencil had been and exposed the metal . |
| 27 | In fact erm when for example Microsoft Access was reduced it included in the box the O D B C driver to access the SQL Server database . |
| 28 | By repetition , he did not mean that every time a phrase was repeated it had to be the same . |
| 29 | Whichever method was used it meant long traffic holdups as the creatures went through the streets , their already frightened state heightened by a deal of cruelty on the part of many of the drovers . |
| 30 | In his final arguments in the three-day hearing , Gavin Lightman QC , for the magazine , said that if a retrial was ordered it intended to subpeona the editor of the Mail on Sunday , Stewart Steven , and two senior journalists from the company in an effort to discover the truth behind a £25,000 payment to Mrs Sutcliffe . |