Example sentences of "[adv] it be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps it is indeed learning that there is no escape from the shock — and such learning may be very important to its subsequent behaviour .
2 After all in an age where everyone is becoming more environmentally aware , perhaps it is only fitting that even artists are getting into recycling .
3 Under the circumstances then , perhaps it was wisely ordered that I never found a man to form that special relationship .
4 This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies .
5 So it 's either setting or not setting the weights and in the N tuple rule all we do is in fact set the weights .
6 So it 's equally unsurprising that he receives a steady stream of unsolicited portfolios from eager aspirants searching for their break .
7 So it 's normally thought that within the utilitarian tradition , voters are required to vote their interests and then the democratic procedure tells us where the general happiness lies roughly speaking .
8 Perhaps normally it was only hidden and distorted by the combered flesh , the yellowed eyes and teeth .
9 Thus it is sometimes said that , had Jesus intended that women should be priests in his church , he would have chosen his mother .
10 Thus it is commonly held that services are economic activities whose output is not a physical product .
11 Thus it is often argued that statutes punishing cruelty to animals can only be explained in that way .
12 In the current , probably mistaken assumption that reunification is only a matter of weeks or months away it is often forgotten that a united Germany as such existed for only around 75 years , between 1870 and 1945 , from Bismarck 's ascendancy to Hitler 's descent into suicide and defeat .
13 More usually it is loosely defined as any increase in GDP , even when that is within the existing production frontier .
14 Yesterday it was also disclosed that Thorn EMI had failed to sell its defence business after trying for five months .
15 Yesterday it was also disclosed that glamorous Suzannah Dwyer told her devastated husband of her romance 24 hours before Bates went public with the news at a press conference .
16 Similarly it is soon accepted that the ‘ ostrich ’ theory of closing one 's eyes and assuming that thereby either oneself or things in the environment will actually disappear is not tenable .
17 Similarly it is well known that an easy item following a difficult one appears to be more difficult .
18 Hence it is often seen as primarily normative , in contrast to a more scientific Realism .
19 Later it was also decided that special 10-day visas would be issued covering the period of the conference .
20 Later it was even specified that should there be for any reason no foreskin to sever , blood must still be made to flow for a rite to be effected and for the individual to enter the covenant .
21 Six days later it was officially listed as missing and frantic bosses sent out a fax to signalmen :
22 When the details began to trickle out it was reluctantly conceded that perhaps two Boeing 707 shipments might have been made .
23 Whereas by a Transfer/Lease bearing even date herewith the property known as Seedy Towers was vested in the parties hereto as joint tenants for [ an estate in fee simple ] [ [ the residue of ] ] a term of [ 99 years from the ] Now it is hereby declared that the parties hereto hold the said property in trust for themselves [ as joint tenants in equal shares ] [ as tenants in common [ in equal shares ] [ in the proportion of one-third share for A B and two-third shares for C D ] ] Engross in duplicate for both parties to execute both parts , each to hold one part after completion .
24 Now it is frequently said that the development of skilled movement ‘ lags ’ a long way behind that of skilled perception , and in one sense this is certainly true : young babies have excellent visual acuity as revealed by their behavioural discrimination of , and neural responsivity , to gratings and chequerboards — but we do n't see them playing darts !
25 Now it is well known that any linear differential equation of order n has n independent solutions , the most general solution being a linear combination of these .
26 Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion .
27 I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room .
28 Assertions can be signalled by writing " I would suggest " , or " I would argue " , but often it is just assumed that whatever you say is your suggestion or argument .
29 The peasants tore up and burned the copies they received ; and often it was simply ignored and the singing of hymns in Latin continued .
30 Today it is generally stated that a share is a chose in action .
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