Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] and [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 2 | It is also important to check that the limited company has already been incorporated and that it does actually have the power to own the property . |
| 3 | It was a relief to know that the house had not been depleted and that it remained uncontaminated . |
| 4 | As one man expressed it : ‘ When all 's said and done we have to get a product out and the management are interested in how cheap it can be done and although it means sacrificing the worker it means one has a cheap product . ’ |
| 5 | That is the situation where the relief is most likely to be needed and if it excluded not much is left . |
| 6 | The court will assess a fair level of award recognising that if the risk materialises the plaintiff will be under-compensated and if it doesn " t , he will be over-compensated . |
| 7 | I learnt with someone else , did two years and then er that was an accident if you like that I got involved cos somebody wanted me to be involved and and it seemed the right thing at the time . |
| 8 | The situation would be reviewed and if it worsened the council would be informed and asked to reconsider the position . |
| 9 | Very quickly , by the early 1950s , the idea that a true ‘ Welfare State ’ had been created and that it offered an effective means of solving social inequalities was being criticised by the likes of Richard Titmuss . |
| 10 | It is often said , for example , that the Indonesian island of Bali is ruined and that it has n't been worth going to since the 1930s , but to walk through a Balinese night breathing the warm silk of tropical air accompanied by the croaking of frogs and the distant gongs and gamelan music of a temple celebration is a magical experience . |
| 11 | Make double hems where extra weight is needed and provided it looks right visually . |
| 12 | This method of deciding the right time to sow was recommended by Fitzherbert , the sixteenth-century writer on agriculture : ‘ go upon the land that is plowed and if it synge or crye or make any noise under they fete , then it is to wet to sowe . |
| 13 | It 's enlarged and if it ruptures his life is at risk . |
| 14 | Causality is here contrasted with indeterminacy : either one pretends that the origin of psychological peculiarities is known and that it has the force of explanation , as in classical psychoanalysis , or one chooses to relinquish this concept and to see identity as a matter of discontinuity and flux . |
| 15 | Class , race and gender differences can determine the quality of transition in terms of what training is provided and where it leads . |
| 16 | For a considerable time , at least some of us have questioned where the IRA is trained and where it comes from . |
| 17 | It is also a question of understanding power itself , how it is exerted and where it lies . |
| 18 | In this unorthodox theory this is interpreted as the typical time for which a dust grain moved through space after it was formed and before it accreted to the Moon . |
| 19 | Unfortunately this legislation has proved to be totally ineffective both as it was drafted and as it has been put into practice . |