Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'appens to be private . ’ |
| 2 | It did not set out to be radically different , though Haydn 's colourful scoring was certainly enhanced by the use of period instruments ( including a fortepiano in the recitatives and a bass line reinforced more consistently by bass trombone and contra bassoon ) , but it succeeded in being unforced and unfettered . |
| 3 | It got to be hard to handle , so she bought herself a small file box and some packages of 2 × 3 cards . |
| 4 | Well , yes , I think there 's a recent report of a rape erm I think if you 're saying well , you know , a rape is a very , very serious incident of sexual harassment , that 's not to be denied , and I think it goes beyond being sexual harassment . |
| 5 | In this sense it aspires to being context-free . |
| 6 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 7 | Virtually all of this information was routinely destroyed as soon as it ceased to be useful ( for example , once a set of negotiations had been terminated or a product discontinued ) . |
| 8 | This usually put Dad to rights but must have been pretty potent stuff as it ceased to be available after the war . |
| 9 | It longs to be golden again . |
| 10 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 11 | It developed a power which enabled it to ‘ rate cap ’ a group of authorities whom it deemed to be high spenders . |
| 12 | It needs to be sharp , of course , since you will use that to clear away surface vegetation and for cutting a route into a hedgerow to obtain easy access to the mouth of a burrow . |
| 13 | It needs to be visible action and leadership . |
| 14 | It needs to be powerful , yet flexible enough to get the most out of the network and provide maximum business benefits . |
| 15 | It needs to be hot water , so we have to be careful . |
| 16 | If the university is to act as the " cultural centre for the whole community " , with literature as the " central civilizing force " , it needs to be capable of discrediting those students who " are actually too lazy or incompetent to do an honest day 's work " . |
| 17 | We need such data and it needs to be sensitive to regional variations . |
| 18 | That is why it needs to be transparent , I said . |
| 19 | You 'll need a video card capable of displaying over 256 colours quickly ; for proper image editing it needs to be 24-bit or 32Kb . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , if a good sleep is imperative , say before an important meeting , then a short-acting hypnotic might be helpful ( it needs to be short-acting or its effects might last into the next waking period ) . |
| 21 | Most importantly , it needs to be able to tackle the ‘ pre-development gap ’ — the time between an idea and a prototype . |
| 22 | The moral to be drawn is that if we are to give an account of knowledge which does not include a requirement of certainty , our account should make room for the notion of certainty somewhere ; if it sees certainty as a requirement for a knowledge claim it needs to be able to explain in its own terms why that should be so . |
| 23 | Classical , Pavlovian conditioning is useful to the animal when it needs to be able to anticipate some repeatedly occurring change in its environment . |
| 24 | Whatever footwear you choose , it needs to be comfortable and give your feet proper support . |
| 25 | It needs to be full somebody said that you can wrap them up in these papers and they stay frozen . |
| 26 | This particular one is called a rail turn and two half hitches it needs to be tight so that it does n't come undone when we 're out there . |
| 27 | Later on in the article he repeats this ; ie. ‘ not only does the tenon need to be pretty much where it needs to be relative to the thickness of the wood . ’ |
| 28 | For a new system to work it needs to be flexible and to fit in with your own personal requirements . |
| 29 | It needs to be waterproof , for hot days bring mist-shrouded nights , heavy with dew . |
| 30 | When the body is elastic , the strain converts kinetic into potential energy … like drawing the string of a longbow , or winding the spring of a clock , or charging an electrical condensor , or filling a balloon with hot air … and it looks to be alive . |