Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] it [be] " in BNC.

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1 Besides which , there are some artists whom it is a pleasure to know even a little better from their letters .
2 As the Minister reconsiders the regular-reserve mix of the Royal Navy , as he promised on 10 December , will he ensure that a proper study of task threats is completed and will he create a supplementary list of personnel whom it is planned to axe until that review of task threats is complete ?
3 See , marmit I it 's marmite .
4 In the case of a request by a person other than an individual natural person that the licensing board shall declare the provisional grant of a licence final , that person shall include in the notice in subsection ( 5 ) above the name of the employee or agent whom it is intended should have the day to day running of the premises , and the board shall not declare the provisional grant final if it finds that the employee or agent so named in the notice is not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence .
5 I 'm hot pardon me it was not me it was my tea
6 ‘ The constable in certain districts ’ , The Pall Mall Gazette ( 19 February 1901 ) observed , ‘ is apparently looked upon as the common enemy whom it is right to kick and beat whenever that can be done with safety . ’
7 Secondly , the purchaser will wish to protect itself in the sale agreement against any risks which it was unable to identify during the negotiations but which are discovered after completion and to ensure it is compensated against these by the vendor .
8 Unity Bank 's Terry Thomas , who represented another backer which it was hoped would look favourably on the project , the Labour Party-linked Co-operative Bank , turned them down flat .
9 The Ministry of the Interior , too anxious about the security implications of labour unrest to leave matters alone , experimented from 1901–03 with police-run labour organizations which it was hoped would divert working-class energy from political towards economic and cultural aims .
10 Being called upon by the media as an expert , either in print or in a programme which it is obvious you have not paid for , lends far more credence to your comments than if it is obvious you have paid to have them put in —
11 Reformers were seeking to integrate working-class adolescents into the ‘ common good ’ by means of an educational programme which it was hoped would lead them to internalize the community perspective and , therefore , use it as the criterion for evaluating their own wishes and responses .
12 This month 's Magazine contains the first of two articles by Bill Howieson which it is hoped will help all of us when we pray for our missionary brothers and sisters .
13 Make up your mind which it 's to be , Fran . ’
14 As we have said , these questions are the subject of a large amount of current research which it is beyond the scope of this book to consider .
15 The financial forecasts assume that the University will in due course succeed in recovering from the research councils the funds which it is expected will be lost from its HEFCE grant under the DR-shift .
16 ‘ Above all else the organization is viewed as a functionally integrated system , the operations of which can be understood with reference to the organizational goals which it is concerned to achieve ’ ( Burrell and Morgan 1979 , p. 205 ) .
17 She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century .
18 It 's part of a new study which it 's hoped will determine once and for all whether there is a greater incidence of cancer in the families of radiation workers .
19 The importance attached to maintaining the ‘ prestige ’ of the emirs soon translated in practice into the importance of maintaining the autonomy of the Residents , and subsequent governors of Nigeria found almost without exception that Lugard had created an administrative monster which it was beyond their power to control .
20 Over those years accumulation built up the phenomenal momentum which it was to sustain through the sixties .
21 These questions must be addressed , even if they can not be precisely answered ; simply raising them has an effect on the way old people are viewed and the action which it is deemed appropriate to take .
22 Sometimes Bentham is represented as having held a significantly different view from that just described , according to which an action which it is right for me to do at any moment is either one which produces a greater surplus of pleasure over pain than any alternative action then open to me ( in which case it is the one right action ) or produces as great a surplus as any alternative ( in which case it is a right action ) , while all actions not thus right are wrong .
23 He rejected the argument that the defendants had done something more by refraining from setting up certain answers to the claim permitted by the Dubai law ; as a matter of policy it was never their intention to do so and ‘ It is no consideration to refrain from a course of action which it was never intended to pursue ; see Cook v. Wright ( 1861 ) 1 B. & ss. 559 , 589 , ( above , p. 214 ) . ’
24 On the following day , Lewis returned to the position of before the competition , when he said in the House that the land authorized under the 1855 Act ‘ would be sufficient for the site of the two offices which it was now contemplated to erect ’ .
25 These are the books which it is nice to have which cost a lot to look after , but which nobody can ever look at because they are so valuable .
26 The government believed that BT could reduce the real price of phone calls in subsequent years for two reasons : unusually good opportunities for cost-saving technical advances , and a previous lethargy as a public industry which it was hoped privatization would dispel .
27 c ) The Training Agency will exercise quality control on those Compacts which it is funding , to ensure that they enhance the education , training and employment opportunities of young people .
28 The other is to rely on other data which it is hoped might serve as indicators of satisfaction .
29 The method is , however , applicable only if the investigator has extremely clear goals in mind , already well worked out in advance , and a major disadvantage is the very limited nature of the data which it is capable of yielding .
30 Even the Greatest himself , Cassius Clay , alias Muhammed Ali , who seemed to have had a highly successful career during which a minimal number of punches were landed to his head , has suffered a brain condition which it is difficult to believe is unconnected with his trade .
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