Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the great hall which is which is although it looks finished is actually by no means finished , I was just explaining to Mike we still need a go there , we still need a table there , we need all the windows to be done and we need three thousand pounds for that window . |
| 2 | Following the efforts of the 80-strong British delegation , the charter it has approved is very specific in its demands on pensions . |
| 3 | The conceptual framework it has produced is particularly pertinent to the discussion here . |
| 4 | The argument rests on the assumption that the number of volatile-rich bodies that would be captured by a planet after it has accreted is roughly in proportion to the mass of the planet . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole document must look suitably smart in all respects — the sort of paper on which it 's printed , the use of colour and so on — but at the same time it has to avoid being gratuitously slick , ’ Boon warns . |
| 6 | Most of the proposals it contains have been widely welcomed . |
| 7 | The means by which LIFESPAN checks the module header of a proposed module to check that all the information it contains has been correctly formatted and is in the correct place . |
| 8 | The possibility of cheating and some of the issues which it raises have been more formally explored by Barro and Gordon ( 1983 ) and Barro ( 1985 ) within a Phillips curve framework . |
| 9 | Instead , it appears to have been wholly ignored for 60 years until it was mentioned briefly by Gauze ( 1934 ) in his book The Struggle for Existence . |
| 10 | The relatively well off , the ‘ best people ’ of the provinces , therefore , welcomed Ivan 's proposal and it appears to have been widely implemented . |
| 11 | It appears to have been roughly analogous to , say , the investiture of the Prince of Wales . |
| 12 | In fact , it appears to have been due less to a plot than to a calculation that she could not win in a second ballot . |
| 13 | But it seems to have been equally rare for young couples in the poorer classes to help their ageing parents by providing them with houseroom . |
| 14 | I really do n't feel free to tell you about this , but it seems to have been both deeply deranging and profoundly helpful . |
| 15 | Firstly , it seems to have been well established at the time that Darrel was having some sort of incestuous relationship with his sister , a woman several years younger but only slightly less wayward than her brother . |
| 16 | Upon recollection , it seems to have been there when the house was bought , though I know it is n't so . |
| 17 | Certainly , as Wilson used it , it seems to have been as much an instrument of personnel management as one of Cabinet government . |
| 18 | By 1910 however , it seems to have been fairly standard practice for the daughters of skilled manual workers to try to get into printing . |
| 19 | ‘ We know about that ; it seems to have been almost common gossip . |
| 20 | Turnover from this region grew 260% to £1.3m , because , Turner says , it seems to have been less affected by recession than other parts of Europe , and a lot of multinationals are based there . |
| 21 | It seems to have been enough , as was the amount delivered by the big but war-disrupted relief programme that followed the 1987 drought . |
| 22 | The fort underwent several alterations before it seems to have been systematically demolished early in the second century . |
| 23 | it seems to have been quite a reasonable picture , you know , it 's quite well |
| 24 | Three weeks after IBM Corp decreed that its European manufacturing plants will become , at least in part , autonomous business units , exactly what it hopes to achieve is still foggy . |
| 25 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
| 26 | Whether it continues to survive is simply another way of asking whether the traditional collateral fact doctrine will continue to be used by the courts . |
| 27 | What it does say is neatly summed up by Bereiter ( 1980 ) : " the disappointing message of the Schools ' Council research is that as soon as we begin to look beyond syntax , vocabulary and the like and try to Investigate functional aspects of student writing , we begin to find out more about the school system than we find out about children . " |
| 28 | Unfortunately , it deals mainly with the fighting , and says little about internal politics or the king , although what it does say is very interesting . |
| 29 | By their very nature both this chapter which deals with current ideas on how homoeopathy works and Chapter 9 which reviews some of the evidence that it does work are inevitably somewhat scientific and technical . |
| 30 | way it 's cut is actually , she went to hairdressers to get it cut . |