Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] it be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even in democratic societies knowledge of the past changes as historical scholarship develops and it is often found that the official record of the time under study contains errors or even deliberate falsification . |
| 2 | He did not say much when they met and it was always muffled by the lapels of his coat . |
| 3 | We were told that the papers in the case were being examined and it was clearly implied that action would be taken . |
| 4 | People paid their debts and when they needed help , they asked and it was never refused ; it was the way that the small and widespread community had always lived , and as a system it was dignified and efficient . |
| 5 | By now £4,500 was promised and it was formally moved that the venture be proceeded with ( the land purchases were already in hand ) . |
| 6 | After discussion , this was agreed and it was further resolved that this meeting be treated as an interim one and that a full AGM be held in March 1990 and annually thereafter . |
| 7 | The grass is then sown and it is periodically burnt thereafter to improve palatability . |
| 8 | Prime 's Natick , Massachusetts headquarters has been sold and it is now headquartered at the old Computervision base in Bedford , Massachusetts . |
| 9 | The value of T g depends on the way in which it is measured but it is also found to be a function of the polymer chain length . |
| 10 | When lost-wax casting came in , tin-bronze was used but it was gradually replaced by zinc-brass . |
| 11 | Nepal 's climbing permits , for example , require an undertaking that rubbish will be adequately disposed but it is rarely enforced . |
| 12 | Two men escaped with his case but a security device activated and it was later abandoned , as was the same Allegro car after the case began emitting red dye . |
| 13 | If we have recently lost sleep ( after a week of trying to sleep in the daytime , for example ) or have been awake for an unusually long time , then the amount of deep sleep is increased but it is still concentrated in the earlier part of sleep . |
| 14 | Human beings as we know are sexually dimorphic and tha that figure seems to fit the er the , the pattern , but erm women have a lot of characteristics that are peculiar to them , like for example erm more youthful looks , women will retain more youthful looks longer than men do and it is normally regarded as important and a lot of women spend an awful lot of money in the modern society on trying to remain erm looking er looking youthful . |
| 15 | New uses for aspirin keep emerging and it 's now thought to help prevent heart attacks , strokes , arthritis and even some forms of cancer . |
| 16 | Moreover , this distinctive structural location has been remarkably resilient to change and it is commonly argued that schooling plays a big part in the reproduction over time of the position of black people in British society . |
| 17 | In fact , the plants showed no response to any of those questioned and it was later discovered that the murderer was indeed none of them . |
| 18 | Then they were among them , milling about the horses , and the terrified animals were bucking and screaming and it was all Riven could do to stay mounted . |
| 19 | The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out to create a healthy atmosphere for the population within less than a decade , but even by the 1990s this has not been achieved and it is now expected that some urban areas will not achieve healthy air until well into the next century . |
| 20 | As water power became less important , the community declined but it is still preserved as an example of an early settlement . |