Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if one acknowledges the significance of the state itself as an agency , there is a danger that it may be given a role which is too sharply independent . |
| 2 | It is not as it may be interpreted a message of hope that the sun might still wake him but rather one of despair that even the sun is at a loss and does not know how to wake him . |
| 3 | Walking boldly into a room may be indicative of a feeling of wellbeing ; on the other hand it may be conveying a mood of anger , so analysis of further cues is required to differentiate . |
| 4 | His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’ |
| 5 | I think it should be done a lot younger as well . |
| 6 | If such a home places its residents under the care of a consultant psychiatrist , surely it should be called a hospital . |
| 7 | Yes , I think this is what 's tended to happen is people call the system , i.e. the central processing unit — which is really the microprocessor , the memory and the interface circuits — as a microprocessor , when really it should be called a microcomputer . |
| 8 | It must be getting a bit boring Dave . |
| 9 | And Mrs Rogers came up to me and said how wonderful it must be to have a husband who takes an interest in his family ; her Dan does n't know he 's got a family and cares less . |
| 10 | If 1T82 had anything to do with the outbreak of mass hysteria among would-be buyers , sellers , makers , and so on of microcomputers , then it must be judged a success . |
| 11 | So it must be making a difference . |
| 12 | It might be argued a contrario that the term " shop assistant , draper 's assistant etc. " which is recorded for some of the bridegrooms , suggests that " grocer does indeed refer to a shopkeeper . |
| 13 | It might be called a polyamino acid , because the basic units are amino acids . |
| 14 | However it might be expecting a lot for him to win four races and it could be that Simon Beck , who starred at the TT , will score his first Irish success . |
| 15 | Er it might be putting a sign up on the , on the fence saying beware of the dog , it might be having a gravel drive . |
| 16 | Er it might be putting a sign up on the , on the fence saying beware of the dog , it might be having a gravel drive . |
| 17 | It is often necessary to look at the water 's surface and try to visualise exactly what is happening beneath it — to imagine the fish in their own world and how best it might be to get a bait to them . |
| 18 | The refugee studies programme at Oxford has announced it 'll be holding a symposium on the food crisis in March . |
| 19 | Obviously all of this detail I explain to you here I 'm just giving you a brief overview it 'll be explained a lot more on the training course . |
| 20 | Lastly it 'll be doing a session on the desktop , defining the components and again hopefully taking us past its St Patrick 's Day position . |
| 21 | McJannet said : ‘ With both Darlington and Torquay in the bottom three , it could be called a six-pointer . |
| 22 | It could be considered a waste of prime parliamentary time . |
| 23 | How much simpler it would be to parasitise a member of your own species . |
| 24 | In fact , the beauty all around was so breathtaking that , for the first time in his life , he actually caught himself thinking what a shame it would be to put a railway line here , to bring dirt and clamour to this Eden . |
| 25 | I say without qualification that home rule without proportional representation would not be home rule at all , and I would not support any measure to bring devolved government to Scotland which did not have PR as its centrepiece , for , however desirable it would be to create a Parliament in Edinburgh , to create one as unfair and undemocratic as that which we have here would be a betrayal of the people of Scotland . |
| 26 | Langlois-Château said that it would be developing a range of single domaine wines in the future . |
| 27 | If the provisions of s213 can be satisfied , management would incur no income tax charge or capital gains tax charge ; Target should have no liability to capital gains tax under s178 or 179 , even though it would be leaving a capital gains tax group as a result of the de-merger and may have had assets transferred to it on a no gain/no loss basis within the preceding six years . |
| 28 | Somehow they must be made to realize that it would be meeting a demand , a creditably innovative idea and not immoral , illegal or fattening , which really would make life , and death , a lot easier and cheaper for many . |
| 29 | would n't it anyway , so it would be taking a bite out of that reduced cherry . |
| 30 | I might vary this if one was arguing that it was easier for a chap in some circumstances to become a bomber pilot than it would be to become a fighter pilot , and I would concede that argument . |