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

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1 So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " .
2 To what extent this was the result of Jill 's campaign will probably never be known , but it may be that it coincided with and reinforced a growing feeling in the Foreign Office and elsewhere that intransigence was no longer in Britain 's interests .
3 Another effect of the phrase would seem to be that it enables the person uttering the remarks or engaging in the behaviour to assert that he was unaware of the presence of his audience , which duplicates the requirements of intention now built into the section .
4 The only possible explanation of this radiation , which corresponds to a temperature of about 3K ( 3 C° above the absolute zero of cold ) , seemed to be that it represented the residual energy left over from the Big Bang .
5 The one good effect of the poll tax may be that it forces the sale of these empty properties to people who will breathe new life into half-dead communities .
6 It may be that it suited occasionally that the same parish priest looked after both of them .
7 The result will be that it dumps everything that has been transferred and you will have to start again from the beginning !
8 The disadvantages of market-orientation may be that it requires special leadership ( a ‘ bureaucratic ’ management would fail to achieve the required inter-relationships between the organisation and its customers ) and is likely to be costly in terms of staffing and other overheads .
9 The reason for this might be that it feels more possible to grieve the death of someone or something that is perhaps significant , but not so important as the death of the spouse .
10 If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail .
11 The matter was first drawn to our attention as far back as 1974 when the nuclear industry inspectorate 's chief inspector said this about the consequences of developing reprocessing in the United Kingdom : ’ The price for Britain of building lucrative business world-wide in nuclear fuel services could be that it becomes the dumping place for the world 's nuclear waste . ’
12 Indeed , it may be that it goes further , and effectively means that the seller has not undertaken to deliver the goods at all , so that it may be argued that the seller has undertaken no obligation and , prior to delivery , there is only a unilateral contract under which the buyer is committed to pay if the seller delivers .
13 A typical objection against it might be that it involves an attempt to settle a metaphysical issue without first clarifying the conditions under which such an issue can be meaningfully discussed .
14 My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves .
15 The difference would be that it does not offer a critique by positioning itself outside ‘ the West ’ , but rather uses its own alterity and duplicity in order to effect its deconstruction .
16 But given the fact that names in such cases do behave as rigid designators , the question is , does the referential rigidity provide a sufficient criterion for distinguishing names from descriptions , and the answer to this clearly must be that it does not .
17 It 's any ancient domestic breed , one of many in eastern Asia , and it main attributes seem to be that it does n't eat much , it grows up quickly , and it 's almost pure lard .
18 True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes .
19 The main criterion for an engine , says Mr Nearn , has to be that it fits the car .
20 She heard the impatience in his tone and went on even more firmly , ‘ It would simply be that it fits in with my long-term plan , which is to get a wide range of experience before going on an extended working holiday overseas . ’
21 If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth .
22 The answer seems to be that it depends on their immediate environment , how they are socialized , their level of education or ‘ culture ’ .
23 More significant could be that it wants to guarantee supplies of ore to its tin smelter — the only one in Britain at Capper Pass , near Hull .
24 Putting the government 's abandonment of the PWRs in the context of the study , the conclusion must be that it decided that , under market force rules , carbon dioxide had to be allowed to win the day over nuclear power .
25 The answer appears to be that it arrived courtesy of the Romans .
26 It may be that it exists essentially for the purpose of meshing sentence-construction with pragmatic principles ; for example , for " foregrounding " and " backgrounding " informational content ( or , in the terms preferred in this book , for eliciting certain pragmatic implications ) .
27 Where soil is being removed slowly it may be that it has built up in layers and a ‘ case hardening ’ effect is experienced .
28 The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all .
29 The design of an aircraft structure falls into this category as the preferred solution for a component design would be that it has zero mass and infinite strength .
30 The most respectable description of the bronze figure would be that it appeared to represent the Goddess of Fertility .
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