Example sentences of "[conj] it be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 The Minister is aware that the peak age of offenders is 15 and that it is boys of that age who commit the vast majority of street crimes and crimes involving intimidation or offensive weapons . ’
32 It seems to me that it is question of policy which we , as judges , have to decide .
33 A more likely suggestion would be that it is evidence of the estate workers continuing to live on the site and work the land long after the owners , managers or bailiffs had departed .
34 Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is evidence of the growing success of the Government 's education reforms that this year 28,800 people have enrolled for teacher training courses — 20 per cent .
35 However section 19 permits the constable to seize anything on the premises if he has reasonable grounds for believing either that it has been obtained in consequence of the commission of an offence or that it is evidence in relation to an offence which he is investigating or any other offence .
36 I gave warning in 1987 that it is part of Gorbachev 's character to search for absolute personal power .
37 I shall argue in the next chapter that it is part of a teacher 's duties to attempt to redress the balance between children who have and those who have not the advantages of a supportive home .
38 This approach also encourages the analyst to look beyond the basic procedure to the wider systems that it is part of and the environment that can affect both requirements and performance , in the process gaining an understanding of all the relevant factors that need to be taken into account .
39 What is different about the Gwithian plant is that it is part of a reclamation operation .
40 A simpler way of describing its position would be to say that it is part of the transitional zone between the Oriental and Australian regions .
41 While the Language in Use team wish to order priorities differently and the Humanities Project 's teachers wish to rearrange literature to illustrate relevant social issues , there is an extreme form of resistance to literature on the grounds that it is part of the ‘ syllabus of established middle-class culture ’ .
42 However , we think that the characteristic of a " revolutionary feminism " is that it is part of a project for the transformation of society .
43 There are philosophers , some of them inclined to Kant 's doctrine that we impose the category of causation on reality , some of them freer spirits , who think or at any rate say differently of causation and of nomic connection generally-in a phrase , that it is part of the mental order .
44 Putting an element in rheme position means that it is part of what the speaker has to say , and that is the very core of any message .
45 But what singles out this house , with its traditional porch and overhanging attic rooms , is that it is part of a way in which people with learning difficulties in the USA are security the ordinary life which the rhetoric of policy makers and politicians promises them but often fails to deliver .
46 I welcome the fact that it is part of a continuing development of community hospital and community health facilities within the modern national health service .
47 Britain has one last chance to ensure that it is part of the considerations in the emerging power block .
48 For an alternative formulation might be that it is the hallmark of democratic government ( which is not the whole of democracy ) that it is government by consent , by contrast with other forms of arbitrary or tyrannical rule where the wishes of the people are ignored and their assent or support is not sought , or considered necessary .
49 Every other group produces more sophisticated results than yours , your own results seem to vanish in the general feedback , and to cap it all she then shows you work which is more sophisticated than any of yours , probably containing a result which is on the A level further mathematics syllabus , and declares that it is work from mixed-ability 13 year olds !
50 Our hypothesis is that it is consideration of the value base underlying the intervention which helps towards greater conceptual clarity about preventive work .
51 These two changes — instrumentation and electronic treatment — suggest two points immediately : that this is music created in a recording studio using quite complex equipment and recording techniques ( the Beatles had in fact just given up live performance ) ; and that it is music for listening rather than dancing .
52 The survey revealed that it is women over the age of 45 and largely in the middle class AB and C1 social brackets who are addicted to detective series .
53 A horse standing perfectly in the show ring , with its ears nicely pricked , may indicate that it is cross by pressing its lips tightly together , as if it is refusing some nasty-tasting medicine .
54 At best , any reading of line A is bound to be provisional ; the precise sense of the " grass " image that it is grass in its aspect of impermanence ( absence of ) awaits a reading of line B.
55 There is a very pervasive belief that it is research in theoretical and applied linguistics which provides the solutions .
56 If we disaggregate further to the industrial sector , we find that it is investment in manufacturing that has been most volatile .
57 The situation is such that it is care by the community rather than care in the community .
58 There is considerable evidence to show that it is partnerships between the various departments of local authorities , voluntary agencies and the police working together which are most likely to curb crime and improve the quality of life in c in local communities .
59 If a killer thinks , even if only for a split second , that it is face to face with an owl or an eagle , it is very likely to back away and this may give the harmless bluffer enough time to escape .
60 Cognitive social psychologists assume that it is pan of human nature to reduce uncertainty by processing the external stimulus world through schemata .
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