Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I ca n't see it being kept quiet from the press for too long . |
| 32 | Although such a payment is made in a very limited number of cases , this booklet 's authors are dead against it being made automatic ; after all |
| 33 | At the government 's request , a report was being prepared by the International Trade Commission which , had the bill been passed , may have led to it being declared illegal for blocking international trade under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| 34 | The Venezuelan state coal mining company Corpozulia has continued to develop open-cast mining on Yukpa lands despite it being declared illegal by the Venezuelan Agrarian Office . |
| 35 | It 's caused premature ejaculation and has ruined my sex life . ’ |
| 36 | … And at times in retrospect you wish you had taken a certain stat , because it turns out that the whole thing has boiled up , completely beyond what you know it to be , but it 's become political and the authority is being attacked and the chiefs ca n't defend it and say , ‘ OK . |
| 37 | And fishing has changed : it 's become institutionalised , controlled by permits , licences and regulations . |
| 38 | ‘ It 's become necessary to go back . |
| 39 | But by this time it 's become easy to forgive a film that is pleasingly constructed and charmingly executed . |
| 40 | ‘ Suddenly it 's become official again , has it ? ’ |
| 41 | ‘ It 's become clear that the crop failure there has been far worse than we realised . ’ . |
| 42 | The president of Prodigy Services Co says the viewdata system is considering a move away from its flat-fee monthly pricing and may start charging by usage for some features , including its bulletin boards : according to Communications Daily , Ross Glatzer said the company 's management is concerned about ‘ rapidly rising telecommunications costs , driven by soaring growth in members ’ use of a handful of features that are most expensive for Prodigy to provide — stock quotes and company news , bulletin boards and airline schedules ; ’ Glatzer said details still are being worked out , but ‘ it 's become clear we must introduce some timed charges for some features in the second half of this year , ’ adding that the problem is one of trying to use flat-rate pricing for some features for which others charge $6 to $18 an hour . |
| 43 | It 's become common practice for babies to be placed on their mother 's stomach immediately after birth but many hospitals still have a policy of removing the baby within the first half hour for measuring and weighing . |
| 44 | People say that Lee is either precious or lazy ( make up yer minds , f—wits ! ) , but it 's become manifest that these songs are worth all the tons of grief and introspection and the endless re-tuning . |
| 45 | It 's believed warm weather has led to a build up of botulism bacteria in the canal . |
| 46 | Now it 's hoped future generations will leave statistics like that behind . |
| 47 | It 's not a miracle cure , but it 's hoped American trials prove it can slow down the onset of Aids . |
| 48 | But it 's turned fine now . " |
| 49 | ‘ It 's turned full circle , has n't it ? |
| 50 | Mary shuddered ‘ I do n't like this place , it seems sad and depressing , do n't you think it 's turned cold ? ’ |
| 51 | During its time in Oxfordshire it 's seen active duty most recently in the Gulf War . |
| 52 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 53 | Drama is a piece of literature that only works when it 's given threedimensional form . |
| 54 | It 's done funny things to my head . |
| 55 | I ran Sleet myself ; under my care it 's broken even … ’ |
| 56 | However , if it 's struck off-centre so that some sidespin is imparted , it will wobble . |
| 57 | ‘ I do n't use it , it 's kept locked . |
| 58 | It 's called mutual respect and it 's the opposite of subordination . |
| 59 | It 's called Revolutionary Youth . ’ |
| 60 | It 's called rape , it 's called indecent assault , it 's it 's um er understood in the same way that sex crimes against adults are understood and erm if you look at um y'know kind of er very young kinds um according to some people called Daley and Wilson , I ca n't remember whether I 've mentioned these on the handout but I 've I 've got some notes here . |