Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] it be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 2 | Er , I went on to say throughout the ages the government has repealed legislation , there 's nothing new about repealing legislation it is repealed either because it is proved unworkable or because it 's simply outlived its shelf life . |
| 3 | Erm , it does n't matter what I propose , whether it actually makes out things that they 've been talking about or whether it 's completely found something to criticise about it . |
| 4 | It is not known if at this stage Sugar was earmarked for preservation , or whether it was simply put into storage along with hundreds of other Lancasters to await their fate . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr. Gould the author of the Birds of Europe is about leaving this country for New Holland , or as it is now called Australia . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , in the course of the twentieth century , following the experience of various forms of dictatorship , some of which have developed from socialist revolutions , this distinction has been overlaid by another , between ‘ totalitarianism ’ and ‘ democracy ’ , or as it is sometimes expressed , between one-party and multi-party systems . |
| 7 | James inaugurated the modern or as it is sometimes called , the ‘ modernist ’ novel in England , a kind of fiction which , in pursuit of a more faithful representation of reality , attenuated or eliminated altogether the authorial narrator . |
| 8 | The largest of these was the Forum of Trajan but the oldest is the Forum Romanum , or as it is often called , simply ‘ the Forum ’ . |
| 9 | The discovery of a bird when and where it was least expected can be a magical experience . |
| 10 | The rights to Presley 's ‘ Sun ’ recordings were acquired by RCA Victor together with the rights to the artist , and although it is now known that the tapes in RCA Victor 's vault are not actually the 1955 originals , they are extremely good copies , and all have been reissued on compact disc . |
| 11 | The building dates back to the early 1800s and although it was partly rebuilt in the early 1900s it still resembles the original design . |
| 12 | The Gloucestershire Whigs , for example , drew up an address against those who had " showed respect " to Sacheverell on his progress , and although it was eventually rejected by the grand jury , which was dominated by Tory JPs , a number of subscriptions were procured , especially by the local Nonconformist ministers amongst the " spinners and weavers and other mean people under their teaching " . |
| 13 | It 's based on the two fingered symbol of peace , and although it was originally designed for lead guitars I eventually scaled it up to use on my basses ; it 's one of the features that makes them instantly recognisable . ’ |
| 14 | Gossip in Mother Russell 's had it that they 'd made their fortune by some prize , for there were one or two men in Harry Pascoe 's crew who thought they had seen strange goings on close inshore under the Gribbin the previous October ; but these would not be drawn further , and although it was never put into so many words , people came to accept that the source of Harry Pascoe 's wealth was not a safe subject for public discussion . |
| 15 | The planning and organisation were inefficient , and although it was supposedly undertaken as a Christian venture , the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Commenus obstructed the crusade whenever possible . |
| 16 | In this book , it will be called ‘ offensive conduct , ’ because although the marginal note speaks of ‘ harassment , alarm and distress , ’ and although it was commonly referred to in the Parliamentary debates as the ‘ disorderly conduct ’ clause , this is not the most accurate description . |
| 17 | After a while , if undisturbed , the Aplysia puts its siphon out again , and if it is then prodded a second time , it will show the same withdrawal reflex . |
| 18 | But one is almost totally dependent on the biographical sources for such humanizing detail ; and if it is sometimes given amongst the flood of factual information , often it is not , and one is left to speculate . |
| 19 | Overall , a healthy plurality of different initiatives is likely to arise if a strong voluntary sector grasps the opportunity with which it is currently presented and if it is actively supported by the statutory authorities . |
| 20 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 21 | If , during training , the rat was always released in the same place , and if it was then released in a different one , it could still swim directly to the platform . |
| 22 | The fungus has no heart nor ‘ Achilles ’ heal and unless it is completely destroyed to its limits , it will develop fresh strength and start again to devour the timberwork . |
| 23 | This issue will be discussed first in this section because it is controversial and because it is also related to the issues of salinisation and soil erosion which will be examined below . |
| 24 | We have spent some time on the preliminaries , particularly the notation , because notation is essential for communication and because it is often neglected as a stage in attacking a problem . |
| 25 | London became the dominant Eurocurrency centre because the dollar was the dominant currency , and because it was strategically located half way between New York and Tokyo so that dealing could continue round the clock . |
| 26 | And because it was never colonised by a European power , it does not even have the conscience of a ‘ mother country ’ to turn to . |
| 27 | And since it is generally recognised that managers cost their companies at least three times their annual salary , the scope for cost-saving is enormous . |
| 28 | Sanger duty is particularly boring because there is nothing else to do but look out of the window , and since it is rarely done in pairs social interaction provides no compensation . |
| 29 | Shortly before the end of the term and while it was still requisitioned it was destroyed by fire . |
| 30 | One of the issues for us here is who does this work and whether it is equitably distributed between different family members . |