Example sentences of "[prep] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a large police presence at the rave , despite it being licensed by the local council . |
| 2 | The bitterness of Maastricht opponents who also included Tory ex-minister Lord Parkinson and former Commons Speaker Viscount Tonypandy signalled that the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill is set for a gruelling passage , despite it being given an unopposed second reading . |
| 3 | The Venezuelan state coal mining company Corpozulia has continued to develop open-cast mining on Yukpa lands despite it being declared illegal by the Venezuelan Agrarian Office . |
| 4 | A lot of it 's to do with newspapers . |
| 5 | Well just well if , because it 's all a lot of it 's to do with this alca alchemical |
| 6 | Anyway , I 'm through with the fiction , so that side of it 's sewn up . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , I noticed it , Eva , but none of it 's sloshing against our house . ’ |
| 8 | There 's been no keeping Joanna Trollope away from filming for The Rector 's Wife … most of it 's taken place not far from the author 's home near Cirencester . |
| 9 | And then , each side of it 's making contact and it 's gone into a hole that size , and it 's moving it ai n't making contact . |
| 10 | So a lot of it 's going to go through the big pipe and then what happens to it when it 's come through the , the , these three pipes ? |
| 11 | Many people who have not been sailing before , many parents are worried about their youngsters , think that it 's dangerous and whatever and we have all this information , we have all these checks , we have a wonderful education scheme er within our own organization in this country and we should go out and sell that and I think we , a lot of it 's going on already and I do n't decry that and we need to just market that a little better to get more youngsters on the water because once we get more youngsters on the water the pyramid gets wider , the building gets higher , so that 's an important issue |
| 12 | Well also the rest of it 's going to look a bit weird at the bottom is n't it ? |
| 13 | Most of it 's going to take the easy way short cut |
| 14 | But this 'll tell you if you 're veering that way , so you can go , ooh , and perhaps spend one day a week on that , just to get into it , and the rest of it 's going to be managing my practice . |
| 15 | " You probably think my life 's some kind of tragedy , but I 'll tell you — one of the hardest parts of it 's keeping a straight face . |
| 16 | ‘ Retype it — some of it 's handwritten , I 'm afraid . |
| 17 | ‘ Take this to the crossroads , ’ she said , dropping the ball of cow-dung into his cupped hands , ‘ and bury it so none of it 's left showing . ’ |
| 18 | Because , I mean , I know where it 's coming from , some of it 's coming from Stanley , who , who thinks if I do n't stand down it will damage Ruth 's chances . |
| 19 | Well it 's neither here nor there but I mean the thing is that we do n't as it is we 're not losing anything because you 're getting yours , half of it 's coming back as , as gross interest . |
| 20 | Yes , it is in the authorities interests that as many of it 's travelling employees as possible use the car contract hire scheme , because it saves the authority money , and yes , officers around this large county have the cheapest possible rates . |
| 21 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 22 | Different authors may define corporatism differently , but we should not worry too much about this since corporatism is a highly complex phenomenon and different dimensions , or aspects , of it are covered by these diverse conceptualisations . |
| 23 | The outer-arc ridge is usually a submarine feature but in a few cases , such as Barbados in the West Indies and Middleton Island in the Aleutian Arc in Alaska , parts of it are exposed above sea level . |
| 24 | Although it is from 1 to 3 km below sea level off Java , along most of the coast of Sumatra parts of it are exposed as the Mentawai and other islands ( Figs 3.9 and 3.14 ) . |
| 25 | A sense of the past may be retained by the use of remembrancers whose representations of it are differentiated from the everyday casual memories of people . |
| 26 | A substantial part of the trail is already in use ; two units of it are incorporated in two excursions ( to Rutli and to Bauen ) described in this section . |
| 27 | The horror and the pain of it are hinted at in the progression , ‘ your son , your only son , whom you love , Isaac ’ ( this is the order in the Hebrew ) . |
| 28 | Drawings of it are given in his Codex Atlanticus of about 1495 , but Leonardo can no longer be regarded as its inventor . |
| 29 | The original conception of ‘ the return of Mrs. Porter ’ would be pointless , or at least only a prolongation of horror , since life itself and the regeneration of it are seen , at bottom , as hideous . |
| 30 | This is not surprising as the dog 's capacity to associate a form of behaviour and the consequences of it are limited to less than two seconds . |