Example sentences of "it [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have always found it to be most informative , stimulating and interesting — a really excellent magazine . |
| 2 | Few accurate counts are available for this species , but the records since 1967 show it to be most numerous in the county from October to March , with peak numbers in October or November and February or March . |
| 3 | We consider it to be most unlikely that the pleural lesion is the site of origin of this lymphoma because of the extensive lymphocytic infiltration elsewhere , the long history of bowel symptoms , and the similarity with other described cases . |
| 4 | Running her finger suspiciously along the top of the fridge , she found it to be commendably dust-free . |
| 5 | Whatever one thinks about this draft — and most lawyers who have studied it reckon it to be reasonably good , though it grants the president extensive powers that could be abused — the real issue has been how to get it adopted as Russia 's new constitution . |
| 6 | Gandhi 's attitude to war is unequivocal ; he considers it to be wholly wrong . |
| 7 | Critics claim it to be equally concerned with the actualization of wealth and power . |
| 8 | Of course , my attitude may stem from my having certain beliefs , but these beliefs are not part of what is actually expressed by the sentence , and do not pertain to that which someone else must share with me , in order for it to be logically proper for him to assent to my sentence . |
| 9 | Analysis of a small Roman plaque with a black patina and gold inlays proved it to be largely copper with traces of silver , gold and arsenic , adding weight to the view that this patination technique was practised in the West as well as the East . |
| 10 | My medical attendant decided it to be altogether nervous , and that it originates either in severe application , or excessive anxiety . |
| 11 | These five species constitute what may be called the typical owl pattern , and even though it encompasses a fair degree of variability it is consistent enough for departures from it to be instantly recognizable . |
| 12 | Personally I would like to believe it to be peacefully verdant . |
| 13 | We may readily show that the matrix X is non-singular. for if it is not , let us first suppose it to be simply degenerate . |
| 14 | Despite the fanfare which greeted the launch of the Air 180 last year , the subsequent arrival of the Air Huarache had made a greater impression on our testers , who have found it to be both innovative and effective . |
| 15 | In the light of the above factors and on the assumption that there is unlikely to be any real increase in the dollar price of oil in the medium term , the Board does not believe it to be financially prudent to maintain the 1992 dividend at the same level as that paid in respect of 1991 . |
| 16 | Conversely , Trade Indemnity maintained support for the Mirror Group , whose PAS-score trajectory shows it to be financially sound . |
| 17 | In the 1960s , Skip Lazell , an American herpetologist , made a study of the lizard , the Dominican anole Anolis oculatus , and found it to be strikingly different in appearance in different parts of the island . |
| 18 | They found it to be as accurate and reliable as the tritiated thynidine autoradiography technique the gold standard for the histological study of cell proliferation when examining mucosa of the digestive tract . |
| 19 | Do n't expect it to be as powerful as a conventional grill though , and it 's likely to operate only with the door closed . |
| 20 | Sarah drew an enormous breath , let it out , and said : ‘ If you really ask me , I want it to be as easy for me as for that man over there . |
| 21 | The loose association of the public library and its public ( compared with , for example , the university library and the university ) has traditionally required it to be as visible as possible ; and this is now further stimulated by the need to publicize an extended range of new services and by the need to justify its existence in an increasingly harsh economic climate ( particularly in the USA and the UK ) where there are competing claims for public money from the various public services . |
| 22 | When Jean 's turn came for her third , she fully expected it to be as straightforward as Billy and Berta , but in the last week she got a lot of bleeding . |
| 23 | ‘ I prefer it to be as natural as possible . ’ |
| 24 | Obviously , there are other pricing schemes a firm could employ , but none would seem on the face of it to be as compelling as the ones we have discussed here . |
| 25 | After 30 years away , Denis Pitts returned to the Italian island of Elba and found it to be as beautiful as he remembered |
| 26 | However , the largest nationalist organization of Ukraine , Rukh , voted on Aug. 1 not to take part in the congress , considering it to be too moderate in its opposition to the current regime . |
| 27 | He is looking for an easy rapport , but he does not want it to be too easy . |
| 28 | Some critics have considered it to be too weak and idiosyncratic to carry responsibility for major public and social services . |
| 29 | So when I did n't receive any further communication , I 've gone back to them and asked them whether they would be interested in reducing the price , cos we consider it to be too high for that one acre of land . |
| 30 | They did not want it to be too obvious , since observing the search would provide them with great amusement . |