Example sentences of "it [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 The situations encountered during an MAS engagement are too varied for that ever to be possible , nor is it intended to be a substitute for discussion within the network .
2 Nor is it intended to be any kind of technological treatise .
3 In that sense the Committee has not been a true executive body ; but nor was it designed to be .
4 Erm the other point of course , this is raised in matter B , as it 's written is it considered to be restrictive too restrictive er and third and secondly , is it giving you er guidance which properly reflects national guidance .
5 The first is that by positioning himself conspicuously behind a veil , the Resident could leave the population in a state of desirable uncertainty about the degree of influence he actually exercised over their emir : his advice was not seen to be taken , but neither was it seen to be rejected .
6 Judges themselves claim this as their great virtue and only occasionally is it seen to be departed from .
7 If people are made aware of the risks and volunteer , then that 's seems to be their own free choice , and if that is what they wish to do , then that it seen to be a perfectly fair about going of course it would be completely immoral to test a drug on somebody who was n't aware of what was going on .
8 Has it got to be one word answers ?
9 Has it got to be on the ferry has it ?
10 Mm , mm , mm where 's it got to be ?
11 Have you just got to sort of like the , these open to interpretation , or has it got to be word for word ?
12 Why had it had to be Travis McKenna , of all people , who had made her experience things she never had before ?
13 Was it thought to be rough by everyone else ?
14 Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities .
15 Such an acquisition of skills from existing practitioners , were it proved to be effective , might just be a defensible strategy for maintaining present levels of teaching quality ( assuming we would be satisfied with that ) .
16 ( What kind of a rest is it meant to be for me with a querulous adolescent ?
17 Was it meant to be a chuckling advertisement for his own sensibility ; a tease about the gritty , unpolishable surface of the desert ; or might it just have been a joke on us ?
18 ‘ Did you mean to kill Carmichael 's man , or was it meant to be just a robbery ? ’
19 Mum , is it meant to be a tree when it grows up ?
20 Well what 's it meant to be like ?
21 What 's it meant to be ?
22 What was it meant to be about ?
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