Example sentences of "[verb] it be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The train of thought that begins like this is as slippery as an eel , and the only effective way to catch it is to examine the truth of the matter .
2 The supermarket 's suppliers Gulf Oil , based in Cheltenham , said it was reacting to a local situation and Tesco says the cut is part of it 's service to customers , denying it 's creating an artificially low price .
3 The Oxford Regional Health Authority is denying it 's seeking an out of court settlement for haemophiliacs infected with the AIDS virus .
4 SHARES in Cable & Wireless received a sharp boost yesterday after the company disclosed it was discussing the sale of up to £750million worth of shares in its Hong Kong telecomunications subsidiary to the Chinese Government .
5 So has it been cooked ?
6 Only in the last ten or so years has it been realized that infection can be spread quite easily by these practices and may pose problems as far as treatment is concerned .
7 Has it been watered today ?
8 Why has it been extended so far beyond the large-scale political contexts where it was needed , to permeate modern ideas about choice and freedom ?
9 In what ways has it been engendered in Dunrossness ?
10 If so , has it been confirmed that they will pay full compensation for this privilege ?
11 Not only has it been sailing in calm coastal waters , but it also has one of your sea-marshals on board .
12 Has it been done long ? ’
13 It was also the home of the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club whose motto , ‘ The right crowd and no crowding ’ , neatly summed up its attitude — not for nothing has it been called the Ascot of the motor racing world .
14 D'Indy may be excused for missing the point of Rameau 's ‘ tied ’ and slurred crotchets : only in our own time has it been realised that these denote the kind of tremolo recently studied by Stewart Carter .
15 Has it been posted ?
16 Only in recent years has it been straightened .
17 However , while there is extensive evidence of assortative mating ( O'Donald , 1980 ) , of the importance of plumage characteristics in courtship ( Williams , 1982 ) and of female preference for males who can defend superior breeding territories ( Pleszczynska , 1978 ) only very recently has it been demonstrated that consistent female choice for any continuous morphological character in males is an important source of variation in male reproductive success .
18 Rarely , though , has it been demonstrated that only one species is associated with dispersal , in contrast to several examples known of one-to-one pollinator-pollinated relationships .
19 The sparing use of the Practice Statement is confirmed by the statistics : the use of the Statement was made 39 times between 1966 and the end of 1989 , but in only 12 cases has it been applied to overrule a previous decision .
20 Has it been tested ?
21 Has it been said that they hope to repeat the experience or ?
22 If this is the case , why has it been denied in the past ?
23 Only recently has it been discovered that they come to these special places to gather specific minerals such as kaolin which neutralise the poison they have absorbed from the seeds they eat at this season of the year .
24 Has it been moved ?
25 Or I should say , has it been resumed ?
26 Has it been swallowed by the frigid lands ? ’
27 Why , in Oxford , has it been left so far to the police , the voluntary sector and private sponsorship to try to cobble together a scheme ?
28 But despite the fact that this series of photographs is considered in New York to be ‘ the perfect comeback to Jeff Koons ’ pornographic photo-paintings of himself and his wife having sex ’ ( Roberta Smith in the International Herald Tribune , their powerful reading as angered response does not come across as it should , nor has it been encouraged .
29 ‘ How long has it been going on ? ’
30 ‘ How long has it been going on ? ’
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