Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [subord] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanket speed limits applied to all vehicles must be set at such a low figure as to ensure reasonable safety with the most badly designed vehicle when it is in the worst acceptable state of maintenance . |
| 2 | ‘ Things were being let slide because it was due to close . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Things were being let slide because it was due to close in five weeks time . ’ |
| 4 | There was support notably from hard-line leaders in Iran for the proposition that opposing US forces was akin to a holy war , a view given prominence when it was articulated by the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a Sept. 12 broadcast , although Iran continued to affirm its backing for UN sanctions . |
| 5 | Broadly speaking , the higher a person is in the management structure , the more essential it is for him or her to be given work when it is available . |
| 6 | Assets are frozen , you ca n't get your hands on them on the whole until you 've got your grant of probate or you 've made declarations if it 's a small will . |
| 7 | We 've probably disturbed Edward as it is . ’ |
| 8 | erm and in the traditional er properly made organ as it were , the pipe organ , erm each keyboard er is available to you to play from . |
| 9 | Downflow is the most widely adopted method because it is easy to arrange and it is the most traditional system . |
| 10 | We have featured furniture because it is a barometer of changing tastes and ideals of beauty . |
| 11 | In most cases this was slander but I have seen instances where it was not far from the truth . |
| 12 | Wordsworth also gives a description of a family spinning in the sunshine in The Brothers , but the Lake District has a higher than average rainfall and in wet and windy weather spinners no doubt sought shelter where it was available . |
| 13 | The Empire likewise needed organization if it were to survive . |
| 14 | So we did n't buy very , little utility furniture , the only utility furniture we 've got is , it used to be a bedroom suite up in that second bedroom , we 've still got the bed of that , that was utility , but had we been in the market we would of bought utility because it was very good , some of it was really good if you looked around and erm , you know , choose your furniture , it was very good |
| 15 | You know , rather like getting an adverse smear test , and before you know where you are you 've convinced yourself you 've got cancer when it was probably just a lousy smear and they did n't get enough cells . |
| 16 | Bas said it ought to be called Chuck-up because it 's always being sick . ’ |
| 17 | There had been the curious tale of the Argentinian scrap metal merchants who had landed on the island of South Georgia , where the United Kingdom had exercised sovereignty since it was discovered by Captain Cook in I775 . |
| 18 | The old values which had underpinned Britain when it was an agrarian society were threatened by a new urban poor . |
| 19 | He then wore it daily for years and , on occasion , nearly sacked people if it was temporarily mislaid . |
| 20 | By section 12(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1938 , a mark will be refused registration if it is deceptive ; that is , if it is identical to or so similar to another mark already registered that it is likely to lead to confusion . |
| 21 | Plans for the extensive use of privatization coupons , reserving 40 per cent of nationalized property for sale to citizens at special low prices , encountered problems when it was revealed on Jan. 20 that up to 6,000,000 of the 8,000,000 books printed ( each worth Kcs1,035 or about US$35 — and exchangeable for shares in state companies — see also pp. 38584-85 ) had disappeared , allegedly bought up by private investment funds promising individuals a tenfold return on their investment after a year . |
| 22 | I thought Chairman that er Mr is saying that er they would consider any consult with the Union on some of the statements that have been made and I quite er the item D is in fact necessary that er I I I gave no arguments , it should be given consideration if it is come to that and er it will come back presumably to form a proposition of deal with it then . |
| 23 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |
| 24 | The morpheme which is glossed as " father " may have extended meanings when it is used in other contexts , but its real meaning is " father " in its ordinary English sense of " male parent " . |
| 25 | Siemens has licensed SoftBench as it is incorporated in the Toolbus environment from Informix ; Encapsulator , a tool for adding software products to the SoftBench and Toolbus environment for integration of tools supplied by independent software vendors or users ; and the C++ Developer software construction and browsing tool used for object-oriented programming in C++ . |
| 26 | Her article had quite astounded Richie because it was like nothing she had done before . |
| 27 | It owns one steam locomotive especially designed and built for the project which has successfully managed services since it was delivered in October 1986 . |