Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current broader issues are examined and it is decided whether any action or research needs to be carried out . |
| 2 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 3 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 4 | All contributions towards the proceedings arising from the pre-congress conference on Chemistry and developing countries had been received and it was anticipated that these would be published through the Commonwealth Science Council in the near future . |
| 5 | Polygamy is now going out of favour , especially as the risk of contracting AIDS through multiple sexual partners is high , and as women become more liberated they are demanding that it be made illegal . |
| 6 | Standish examines the first two difficulties ; the third is not surprising given Neptune 's long orbital period , 165 years ( so that not even one orbit has been completed since it was discovered ) . |
| 7 | The importance of the Cycladic islands had been exaggerated because it was alleged that there were Cycladic influences in the Balkans and in Italy and indeed Sicily , and in Iberia . |
| 8 | it remains to be seen what figures are included when it is submitted to the Secretary of State and what view he takes on that . |
| 9 | Certainly , voluntary anonymised seroprevalence studies are discouraged because it is felt that even a 5% refusal rate may invalidate the results . |
| 10 | Ours has n't been decorated since it was erected because every year is supposed to be its ‘ last ’ year . |
| 11 | The relevant schools have been approached and it is intended to co-ordinate engineering , education and enforcement activities . |
| 12 | This has been done because it is believed that the State has an interest in seeking to prevent those actions and to punish those who so act . |
| 13 | Particular care is needed where reports are prepared and it is believed that a person other than the client will have access to the report and may seek to rely upon it ( eg a long form report prepared for a vendor prior to sale ) . |
| 14 | It has been said that it is unsporting to receive help from another angler when you catch a fish . |
| 15 | I heard it had been said that it was discouraged but er |
| 16 | No sooner had the announcement been made than it was withdrawn , pending deliberations by Lincolnshire County Council as to whether subsidisation could be considered as a way of continuance . |
| 17 | No sooner , it seems , has one prospective long-term partner been secured than it is ditched . |
| 18 | Because if you 're told that it 's going to get a maximum of three minutes air time , and if the interviewer wants to ask five questions , you think there are five topics that you would like to get in , to make five points , then do a bit of mathematics , and work out how long you think each answer should be . |
| 19 | You know I mean you 're wondering whether it 's going to blow the chimney pot off or all sorts of things . |
| 20 | In fact , we 're wondering whether it 's going to be possible to keep it up but the trouble is it 's in an area where in the last ooh , over over recent years forty chapels have closed ! |
| 21 | We 're stretched as it is talking to every kid in the school now that they 're on holiday . ’ |
| 22 | Now , it 's alright , I 'm looking at people and they 're smiling and it 's throwing me . |
| 23 | Two toddler-type swings are requested as it is felt that more often than not two small children are taken to the playing field accompanied either by one or two adults and the provision of two swings would prevent disputes . |
| 24 | The home that Abigail Pilmay built in 1682 has now been demolished but it was remembered in the 1920s as having the name Pot House . |
| 25 | If they ask for an explanation and are told that it is shooting at a wooden bird in the graveyard with bows and arrows , they may think they are being hoaxed . |
| 26 | A copy of the figures are enclosed and it was suggested that perhaps class members and secretaries might be interested in seeing how their subscriptions are spent . |
| 27 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal accepted his argument , albeit reluctantly , saying that , in the experience of the members deciding the case , in practice a redundancy ‘ is accepted as having been shown where it is demonstrated that the actual job which the claimant was carrying out had ceased to exist ’ . |
| 28 | Recently physical interaction of the carboxyl-terminal domain ( CTD ) of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II with TATA-binding protein has been shown and it was proposed that the CTD is one of the components of the RNA polymerase II that interacts with the DAB complex during recruitment of the enzyme ( 47,48 ) . |
| 29 | Cos we need to cos we need to sort of all hands to the pump next week cos we 've got a big change-over Yeah but I know ink well no cos the leaflet he 's got has only just been approved and it 's going out next week yeah well I mean you 're to ha you 're to handle their enquiries er deal with their enquiries and then tell them to phone yeah yeah yeah but you see it 's the mailing that 's gone out and and then he 's got to do some advertising first two weeks in Feb . |
| 30 | Alun Evans , secretary of the Welsh football association who doubles up as chairman of the UAU committee , said : ‘ I was informed by the chairman of the UAU rugby committee that he was discussing the possible sponsorship of its championship and I received a copy of a proposal … it contained a number of features which were not acceptable to the union and it was therefore with great surprise that we learned a launch for the sponsorship had been called and it was decided that the union could not agree to this action . ’ |