Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police hunting the gang said yesterday : ‘ Had it been brought on stream the price of Pepsi in the city would have dropped by half . ’ |
| 2 | The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance . |
| 3 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
| 4 | If a tilde ( ) is encountered in the print list , he numeric items which follow it are printed in hexadecimal . |
| 5 | It is also an extremely important form of property , and rights of access to it are governed by legislation and custom . |
| 6 | The outer-arc ridge is usually a submarine feature but in a few cases , such as Barbados in the West Indies and Middleton Island in the Aleutian Arc in Alaska , parts of it are exposed above sea level . |
| 7 | The definition of curvature and ways to measure it are described in Section 3.2 . |
| 8 | The blueprints we draw up about the environment we inhabit and our place in it are sketched in outline when we are very young and least able to see the whole picture . |
| 9 | Its delightful situation in a wide fertile valley framed by the twin craggy peaks of the Mythen standing behind is particularly picturesque when the cherry orchards that surround it are smothered in spring blossom . |
| 10 | Full details of how to go about it are shown on page 7 . |
| 11 | I wonder if you are familiar with this type of thing and could it be applied to computer video outputs . |
| 12 | In recent years Conservative administrations have faced greater opposition from the House of Lords than have Labour Governments , partly because there is probably a greater fear of a Labour Government curtailing still further the powers of the Lords should it be faced with opposition from that quarter . |
| 13 | If this is the case , can it be substantiated by evidence from the history of developed societies ? |
| 14 | Can it be converted to gif ? |
| 15 | There was a syringe of morphine but under no conditions should it be given for head or chest wounds and here Charlie had both . |
| 16 | Even then she might have decided not to answer him , or she could have let it be seen by accident before knowing what it was . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) Can it be said with certainty that the court will , under section 2(2) , exempt the third party from liability to make a contribution ? |
| 18 | They let it be known around school that they were collecting waste paper and asked the others to do the same so they could weigh it all in . |
| 19 | How far should it be taken in respect of information handling ? |
| 20 | Popular buys among those who intended to spend part of it were headed by household furnishings ( 28% ) , a new car ( 23% ) , gifts to children ( 20% ) and travel ( 19% ) ; only 5% splashed out on a home extension . |
| 21 | The administration of each territory was finely tuned and certain aspects of it were recorded on clay tablets at the urban centres . |
| 22 | Such research would be all the more effective if it were done in conjunction with the European and British institutes for tropical research that I discussed earlier this year ( 3 and 20 January , pp 106 and 183 ) . |
| 23 | As their eyes met and held , the message in his was as unreadable to Lisa as though it were written in Sanskrit . |
| 24 | Claudia , waking with a head that felt as if it were filled with lead , almost fell out of bed as her alarm rang . |
| 25 | He tossed it aside as if it were made of straw and she knew she would be lost if he touched her . |
| 26 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 27 | This was an outstanding achievement , since we began the dinner ( with Avocado aux Crevettes de Blackpool ) unsettlingly divided : the organisers ( Central Office again ) had expanded the Top Table so ridiculously , in an attempt to flatter those who care about such things , that all of us who were n't on it were consumed with envy . |
| 28 | If it were enacted in isolation , however , and if , in particular , there were no new constitutional settlement to underpin it , it is hard to see how problems with parliamentary sovereignty could be avoided . |
| 29 | The agreement was also denounced by many liberal Democrats on the grounds that the spending cuts contained within it were orientated towards welfare programmes and , therefore , were targeted at those least able to absorb them . |
| 30 | Each song was repeated a number of times until the audience had learned the tune , then copies of it were offered for sale . |