Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Like a magician 's cabinet ( on which it was based ) , any Dalek going through its portal would cause a series of panels to flip round , thereby giving the impression it had vanished without it being obvious how it had vanished .
2 The Act is already very effective because grants made under it are selective .
3 From what we have said above it is clear that there is no single structure for reports , although what follows can be used as a model :
4 From the evidence presented above it is clear that there may be doubts about the designation of the term ‘ villa ’ for some of the buildings in the countryside .
5 Penetration in many instances is not related to a property of the organism itself , in most instances it 's re related to some form of injury in which the organism is moved from it 's normal skin location to a deep tissue location .
6 But the devastation already wrought in it is heartrending to contemplate .
7 The level of equality in society is very closely related to it 's level of productivity .
8 Transformer T1 , of course , steps down the main voltage which is connected to it 's primary winding .
9 More details of the SFEP appeal and of how contributions can be made to it are available from Michèle Clarke , .
10 With linear restrictions on a linear model , then , the F-test is to be preferred for it is valid for any sample size : in most other cases the likelihood ratio test could be used .
11 Where the heads had been bitten off it was disgusting .
12 The very idea of coming up with something so novel that no one has thought of it is daunting .
13 The ramp is still heavily used despite it 's small transitions and general condition .
14 But if upgrading of all the wards were to be embarked upon it was evident that it would cost a small fortune .
15 The functions now being attributed to it are appropriate to a non-specific defence protein generated during inflammation and truma .
16 Provided the wire is very fine ( typically 10–100 µm ) , the hydrogen bubbles produced at it are small and numerous enough to move with the flow and give the appearance of a white dye .
17 As listed above it is clear that certain exempt gifts can be made without the gifts being property subject to a reservation .
18 In any case , if such a qualification is called for it is hard to see how a creature with no rationality at all could possess it .
19 For erosion to continue at the rates noted above it is necessary that the material supplied by the cliff should be transported away by the sea : otherwise there may be formed extensive beaches , spits , bars and comparable forms , which dissipate the energy of the waves and prevent , at least temporarily , the base of the cliff being attacked .
20 It justifies managerial power by showing that those who are affected by it are involved in making managerial decisions .
21 A wooden float with nails driven through it is useful as a devilling tool , to key the wall surface between coats ; again , you can improvise one if you wish .
22 For example , from the model derived above it is clear that output will be raised above its normal rate only if people in general are fooled into believing that the average price level is lower than it actually is .
23 When the more straightforward side of the questioning has been dealt with it is usual for the interviewer to move on to more difficult areas of assessment — motivation , enthusiasm , ability to fit in with existing staff , flexibility , readiness to travel if necessary , stability of home background , etc .
24 I 'd picked the Bloomsbury address from a handful of alternatives Patterson had offered for the set-up as the easiest route and also the time , early afternoon , though in town these days the traffic was a matter of pot luck with the odds stacked on it being bad .
25 She coughed , and when her nose was plugged up it was difficult for her to suck properly ; she cried to be fed all through the night and Phoebe got more and more tired , more and more passive and despairing and guilty .
26 Well I personally think with an appeal fund like that , I mean the amount of money that 's gone into it is ridiculous considering the amount of compensation that everybody 's going to get or hopes to get after it .
27 The process which has just been described is clearly a very complex affair , but most of the decisions involved in it are programmable types of decisions .
28 Variety found that it ‘ fails to engage any sympathy or interest : entire reels could be interchanged without it being evident ’ .
29 followed by It is possible to change the print control variable ( @% ) within a print list by using the function : Functions have to return an answer , but the value returned by this function is a null string .
30 Lexical retrieval : the lexicon is searched , and retrieved from it are abstract codes representing the content words ( nouns , verbs , adjectives , some adverbs ) that the message level representation specifies — in our example , codes representing the words boy , girl , flower , and hit .
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