Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [be] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 2 | It has been long and widely believed that urbanization and industrialization cause large increases in crime . |
| 3 | It has been serious and to tell the truth I am sick to the teeth of it . |
| 4 | It has been female and male peers who have most affected Rosenberg 's work rather than women artists of the past like Rosa Boneheur . |
| 5 | In the past it has been said AMV 's TV has never matched its press work ; that it has been insular and unadventurous from a strategic corporate point of view ; and that it has relied too heavily on its self-referential ability to sell middle-class brands . |
| 6 | Secondly , it has been impractical or impossible to gather data beyond vital signs and some blood and tissue samples . |
| 7 | At the same time , within the National Health Service , it has been acute and curative services which have been developed , despite attempts to shift the balance towards preventive and caring services directed at chronic conditions . |
| 8 | Thus the UK clearinghouse has been entirely funded from a national body , and in this respect it has been fortunate and unique . |
| 9 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 10 | The new process could make carpet recycling possible on a major scale ; until now it has been laborious and expensive to separate out the component materials , which often include wool , nylon as well as latex . |
| 11 | As far as the effect of knowledge about language on pupils ' own language skill is concerned , it is true that it has been difficult or impossible to show any direct cause-and-effect relation between teaching formal grammar and improved writing performance . |
| 12 | All morning it has been calm but now we are threatened by a storm that has been brewing out to the west . |
| 13 | From this , and what we know of the demise of the mosaic craft in the mid-late third century , it has been customary -and reasonable — to infer that the Barton mosaic and the comparable mosaic from Woodchester are of the early fourth century , probably before 325 . |
| 14 | In almost every year since 1945 the government has spent more than it has been willing or able to raise via taxation . |
| 15 | An Information memorandum should include a form of wording emphasising that it is not a prospectus , that the information it contains is confidential and that neither we nor the directors of the company concerned accept responsibility for it . |
| 16 | However , the reaction it causes is explosive and powerful , but also dangerous . |
| 17 | He told delegates : ‘ The Company 's relationship with the trade unions with which it negotiates is healthy and constructive . |
| 18 | Richard Ryder , Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Food , Fisheries and Agriculture Shopping in a place called a health food shop does n't mean you can assume everything it sells is safe or healthy . |
| 19 | We 've er added extra staff in , in er credit control departments where it 's been necessary and by a process of education , at every Pearson seminar we rang home the message of the importance of cash and James provides examples of different methods of operating and the effect it has on cash and what happened to market share ? |
| 20 | Today I 'm glad to say it 's been dry and we 've even seen the sun . |
| 21 | And I , I ran there and ran back to continue my game , at play like and I heard a , mo , her say to mother well I like your lad to go says th look at this cheese it 's never been unwrapped he said those other lads he says it 's always looks as if it 's been unwrapped and |
| 22 | One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental . |
| 23 | It 's been wonderful and it is a lot of we have got two super teachers , that they are enthused by Celia . |
| 24 | Every time I do a stall I I quake in my boots up until I do it and then I feel great when we 're doing it and afterwards realize that it 's been productive and we we 've had a good lot a good response from the public . |