Example sentences of "it [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words Braque is in effect saying ‘ My picture is an object , a flat surface , and the spatial sensations it evokes are a painter 's space which is intended to inform and not to deceive . ’ |
| 2 | I think no mine are too thin , or maybe their not , and , and this , and seeing this in magazines , seeing it on television it make 's me think that maybe I could have that |
| 3 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 4 | Weekly cash wages payment is likely to rule out credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts , The forms of credit which it encourages are those involving weekly instalments : mail order , trading checks , tallymen and weekly credit callers . |
| 5 | The degree of selective pressure towards co-operation group awareness , and identification was so strong , and the period over which it operated was so extended ( at least three million years , and probably even longer ) , that it can hardly fail to have become embedded to some measure in our genetic makeup ( 1977 : 209 , emphasis ours ) . |
| 6 | A number of manufactures showed an early interest in the group and among the first products it evaluated were alarm systems and home security ideas , doors and new types of door handles , windows , kitchens and bathroom fixtures . |
| 7 | Where it differs is that whilst the Ariston is a simple refinement of standard OEM hardware , the SD Ribbon is an extremely radical design , especially by British standards . |
| 8 | Yeah , so if you had if I try and draw it much the same if you had that and let's choose let's choose er , well le , let's keep the same let's keep to the same carbon chain if you had that the carbon skeleton is exactly the same the only way it differs is that the O H group here is on carbon one of that chain that we 've chosen where as here , it 's on carbon two of that chain . |
| 9 | But what really brought it to light was your letter telling me I was contemptible and that you washed your hands of me ! |
| 10 | Is that the way it goes is it ? |
| 11 | The radical consequences of relationism and what it overthrows are neatly described by Loader : |
| 12 | This will allow it to continue being part of a household , rather than being confined on its own in kennels . |
| 13 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 14 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 15 | So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner . |
| 16 | The helplessness of that figure and the hopelessness it conveyed was always there . |
| 17 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 18 | And this in turn suggests its own moral , which is a constant theme of structuralist poetics : The primacy of the system over what it represents is a conclusion that poetics derives from the extension of the Saussurean model to the sphere of the grammar of literature ; and now we find literature itself endorsing these conclusions . |
| 19 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
| 20 | The relationship between an indicator and the property of the underlying phenomenon it represents is a probabilistic one , though the parameters of the relationship are unknown since the phenomenon itself can never be directly inspected . |
| 21 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
| 22 | Even more revealing of Baldwin 's personality than The Times letter and the action it announced was the note which he wrote immediately afterwards to John Davidson , who despite a twenty-two-year age gap had become and was to remain one of his closest friends : |
| 23 | Mr James Drife , professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Leeds General Infirmary , says society views mastectomy as ‘ unacceptably mutilating ’ when all it involves is ‘ excision of a redundant gland and a pad of fat ’ . |
| 24 | One is to include corporate dummy variable of the intercept and see whether it 's T ratio or significantly different , is , sorry it 's greater than two right or we can use an F test , right , now that F test that 's given me that formula in the middle of the page is a very important test which was developed by a chap called Chow and as a result it become known as the Chow test and it 's a , it 's a test for parameter constancy , er do we have constant parameters in our model now it tells you how to compute this Chow test , in this particular case we 're only dummying the intercept , the Chow test gives exactly the same results of T tests , right , erm we wo n't bother going through it , if you want to go through this er sheet in your own time calculate that , that Chow test and essentially what it involves is splitting with the s the whole sample now into two sub-samples , right , the first sub-sample , right , is peacetime , the second sub-sample wartime , right , and you just compare the residual sum of the squares on the unaccounted for variation , right , between actual and fitted values , just compare the residual sum of squares between these two sub periods , right and if you use the formula that 's given there that will come out with exactly the same result , well in actual fact you can square , if you square the F statistic you get calculating one formula you will get T value , got from er the computer right , the er , the sheet goes on to say how we can er use dummy variables in slightly more complicated ways , right , we could see actually see whether the income or price elasticities of demand changed . |
| 25 | It involves being alert to particular developments in the situation for which campaigning action is required . |
| 26 | Oddly the land on which it sits was actually called Folly Hill before the building was added , as if it was fated to be there . |
| 27 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 28 | When a person is seeking employment , council membership and the demands it imposes are unlikely to recommend him or her to prospective employers . |
| 29 | It was particularly critical of the role played in the scandal by Col. Clyde Walker , head of the self-defence force , whom it recommended should be dismissed , and that of former Minister of Communications and Public Works Vere Bird Jr , son of the Prime Minister , who it recommended be barred from resuming public office . |
| 30 | Intel Corp has found another patent that it thinks is being infringed , and has asked the US International Trade Commission to investigate the import from Taiwan of Twinhead Inc 's Slimnote notebook computers , and put a ban on them . |