Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faces reddened at the Ministry of Defence when it was revealed that a thief had snatched top-secret documents about the Gulf from an unlocked car on December 17th . |
| 2 | Erm , Chair , this is the Joint Staffing Watch for September ninety-three , and its mandatory on the County Council , that it 's presented to the committee , er , within a period of preparation as it is issued to the media . |
| 3 | The experience of faith as it is lived by another people , another culture ; the enjoyment of celebrating fiestas ( and that includes the liturgy and the party afterwards ) with the people ; the experience of living amongst a people who never give up the struggle whatever happens and so challenge my own pettiness ; the graciousness of so many of them and the great welcome they gave us . |
| 4 | However , the second notice was clearly given in breach of contract and it was indicated that in any subsequent wrongful dismissal action , damages might include a sum for the loss of the right to claim unfair dismissal to which the employee would have been entitled had the contract been honoured . |
| 5 | Drug profits have also been affected by provisions in the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 ( Section 24 ) , which makes assisting drug trafficking an offence , and also provides immunity from breach of contract where it is disclosed to the police that funds or investments are derived from drug trafficking . |
| 6 | The march marked HMS Jupiter 's last visit to its affiliated town of Middlesbrough before it is de-commissioned later this year . |
| 7 | They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | Even academics , who are supposed to embody the quintessence of detached assessment , somehow respond with a lack of enthusiasm when it is suggested that their own methods of teaching , research , or organization might benefit from review . |
| 9 | Pictures are taken at several ( eight ) different exposure levels and each point is weighted according to the number of times that it is seen . |
| 10 | Support from relatives may also be received but it is difficult to quantify this source of income and it is excluded from the analysis which follows . |
| 11 | A balloon lease is a popular method of purchase when it is intended to sell the aircraft after , say , three years . |
| 12 | At the Apollo 16 landing site ejecta from the crater South Ray was examined for the effects of exposure and it is estimated to have been exposed on the surface for about 2 Ma . |
| 13 | The English must have echoed the rejoicings of the people of Rouen when it was announced , in the early summer of 1444 , that a truce had been agreed between England and France , and that Henry VI was to marry Margaret of Anjou , a niece by marriage of Charles VII . |
| 14 | This attitude is fine if you can afford to have your machine out of action until it is repaired and replace components which have failed through neglect . |
| 15 | Detention of a whole class may technically still be lawful , although it is becoming increasingly likely that a judge would have doubts about the reasonableness of this course of action where it is known that there may only be one or two culprits . |
| 16 | Like the established economic torts , this is a tort of intention and it is thought that the conduct of the defendant must have the plaintiff as its target though it need not be the predominant purpose in the sense that the defendant needs to be activated by malevolence : the pursuit of self-interest by unlawful means is actionable . |
| 17 | And what was the point of ambition if it was limited ? |
| 18 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 19 | Gailani reputedly stated in an interview in March 1980 that ‘ as regards the West European initiative we support that part which provides for a withdrawal of Soviet troops ’ but ‘ we do not agree with the proposed neutrality of Afghanistan because it is imposed from outside ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ You have to persuade a laboratory animal to become addicted to any of those drugs , but you only need to give an animal one dose of cocaine and it 's hooked . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Hrawi has not been able to move into the presidential palace in the Beirut suburb of Baabda because it is occupied by Gen Aoun . |
| 22 | Mr Hrawi has not been able to move into the presidential palace in the Beirut suburb of Baabda because it is occupied by Gen Aoun . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , within the party , there is widespread distrust of the approved list of candidates and it is regarded as anything but fair . |
| 24 | Growing up was much harder than was ever said , involving , as it must , both the practised , clinical coldness to which she aspired combined with a proper sense of pity when it was called for and could be expressed with dignity and without embarrassment to the parties concerned . |
| 25 | The Criminal Justice Act was hailed as a far-reaching piece of legislature when it was launched last October . |
| 26 | The Dnestr region , however , in the east of Moldava , with a population of 700,000 mainly Russian speakers , which had been a part of Ukraine before it was incorporated into the Moldavan territory annexed by Stalin from Romania in 1940 , declared its wish to remain part of the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | Offering the right kind of help where it is needed requires a comprehensive assessment scheme . |
| 28 | In seven tightly reasoned chapters , the author lays out the traditional interpretation of Gris as it was advanced by Apollinaire , Kahnweiler , Maurice Raynal , Zervos and other colleagues and critics who had known the artist and followed his development , and then proceeds to question their assumptions by looking more closely at the works themselves than any other scholar had previously done . |
| 29 | The jail was the scene of a hunger strike during the War of Independence after it was taken over by the military authorities in 1915 . |
| 30 | Consideration by Ministers of the member states at the Research Council is likely to follow at the end of December and it is hoped that this will produce a ‘ common position ’ , that is agreement on the proposal possibly as amended in the light of the comments of the Parliament and of the advisory bodies to the Council . |