Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly , they break down into two main types : one where the water is heated and stored hot in a hot water cylinder or tank ; the other where cold water is heated instantaneously as it is drawn off . |
| 2 | Subsequently , the statement of claim was amended so that it was restricted to the tax assessment under s 488 , TA 1970 . |
| 3 | This entails , as was pointed out above , that disobedience to a law is justified only if it is justified by an existing legal doctrine to that effect . |
| 4 | Electoral reform can , it seems , be realistically expected only when it is initiated by a minority Conservative or Labour government as the price of survival exacted by a party or combination of parties holding the balance of power . |
| 5 | The raw reference material is reorganised so that it is geared to the needs of advice workers and oriented to the problems that clients bring to advice agencies . |
| 6 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 7 | In areas of readily eroded rocks the rivers may carry so much load that one of two things may happen : either the estuary may be filled soon after it is formed or the aggradation may keep pace with the rising sea level so that there is not a stage of actual ria or estuary formation . |
| 8 | The programme has never done better than it is doing now , it is going great guns . ’ |
| 9 | The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard . |
| 10 | Lewis 's maiden Test hundred in Madras was down-graded critically because it was made in a losing cause in England 's second innings . |
| 11 | The fatalism of life at work was accepted just as it was believed that they could not help themselves or , indeed , be helped . |
| 12 | The same piece of information is seen differently when it is received from a favourite and trusted subordinate than when it is received from the manager of the intelligence section : the manager of the intelligence section is neither respected nor trusted . |
| 13 | Looking for sherds that will join together is a very time-consuming process , and is only usually done thoroughly if it is suspected that such joins exist and will add significantly to the evidence . |
| 14 | It needs to be done now and it 's going to cost us more if we leave it till later , on that point I ca n't agree with your budget , so , I 'm afraid , it 's roads that put me against it . |
| 15 | Subsequently , the Galactic Centre has been shown to be astonishingly bright at many wavelengths , although it can not be seen optically because it is obscured by intervening dust . |
| 16 | To some extent , this will be done simply because it is felt that it is more efficient , or at least administratively convenient , to handle matters in this way — the matters delegated may be ephemeral , needing constant change ; or technical , requiring expertise . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard Co , which has n't said yet if it 's using NT , has Microsoft helping it support HP 's 4mm digital audio tape ( DAT ) drives for backup and archiving : Microsoft Corp will make it an icon on the NT screen . |
| 18 | Although the business had grown steadily since it was established in 1948 , the owners realised that the market was changing with more consumers buying milk in shops . |
| 19 | In a move reminiscent of what Microsoft is doing with NT and Unix System Labs with Destiny , IBM has said recently that it is dividing both AIX and OS/2 into client and server versions and wants them to share as much infrastructure as possible . |
| 20 | THE ENGLISH Schools Cricket Association ( ESCA ) has grown considerably since it was formed in 1948 , and its diligent band of committee members have seen their tireless efforts forge many valuable partnerships to ensure the continued development of cricket in the schools . |
| 21 | well said it does n't look as if it 's been painted once since it was built ! |
| 22 | The idea that the Renaissance could be named , classified , described , and interpreted so that it was rendered readily comprehensible within some generalised scheme of the humanities was no longer a clearly defined process . |
| 23 | If a country has a current account deficit , then collectively it is spending more on things produced abroad than it is earning from abroad . |
| 24 | RICHMOND Royal Park in southwest London has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of the wildlife preserved there since it was created three centuries ago . |
| 25 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 26 | Also the wood formed a very strange texture , it is very rough in patches and there are lots of tiny holes in the wood where worms had tunnelled there before it was broken off . |
| 27 | When dialect is a matter of different words being used , naturally it will be understood only if it is known previously . |
| 28 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 29 | For a handwriting recognition system it is obviously desirable that a recognised word be displayed soon after it is recognised . |
| 30 | Such a wide discretion must be exercised fairly if it is to comply with the requirements of natural justice . |