Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb mod] [prep] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , although it would in principle be possible to use the producer price indices for measuring the rate of inflation , it is more appropriate to regard them as indicators of the likely future trend of inflation . |
| 2 | For the purposes of analysing intonation , a unit generally greater in size than the syllable is needed , and this unit is called the tone-unit ; in its smallest form the tone-unit may consist of only one syllable , so it would in fact be wrong to say that it is always composed of more than one syllable . |
| 3 | When you look at maps of the Dales , particularly the new 1 to 25,000 series , you can read in the patterns on the landscape and the names given to settlements and landforms , the intricate story , incomplete as it must of necessity be , of the pageant of life in the upland valleys . |
| 4 | Even when it is near the zenith , as it can of course be from the southern hemisphere , it still twinkles quite noticeably . |
| 5 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |