Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When barley is harvested it is taken to a maltings where the grains are soaked in water to encourage germination . |
| 3 | Oh but it 's so wound it 's taking me a lot of time outside . |
| 4 | So far , once the system is installed it is forgotten , but in the future , maintenance contracts will be considered the norm rather than the exception . |
| 5 | When the hopped wort has been cooled it is run to fermenting vessels where it meets its destiny with yeast . |
| 6 | In order to avoid the hitches of the last trip , they had carried it in its bag , but when unpacked it was discovered that one of the parts was damaged . |
| 7 | When the sporangium is discharged it is projected a distance of up to three metres in still air to land on the surrounding herbage . |
| 8 | How come it 's taking years to do your hair ? |
| 9 | If it was friendly , how come it was scurrying around stealing magazines and not coming out into the open and asking who was in charge round here . |
| 10 | On that Sunday night there should have been a film show for the camp , but the projector was broken and the prisoner who knew the trade of projectionist and might have repaired it was serving his second consecutive fifteen day spell in a SHIzo isolation cell . |
| 11 | When an item is deleted it is lost . |
| 12 | In his view , the revelation of God in Jesus Christ , and the repairing and restoring of fallen human nature brought about through it , were nothing less than a miraculous new beginning , an act of creative divine power , whose discontinuity from what had preceded it was signalled by the double miracle of Jesus ' birth from a virgin and his resurrection from the grave . |
| 13 | Although roof and joist problems have been temporarily solved it was decided to close the building to the public during strong winds or snowfall . |
| 14 | The western slopes of the Southern Alps are , in effect , an enormous self-perpetuating fault scarp ; as rapidly as material is eroded it is replaced by further uplift and crustal shortening against the Alpine Fault ( see Section 18.2.4 ) . |
| 15 | When the issue is addressed it is skirted around , it seems to us , by the unwillingness of all three of the authors concerned — understandable perhaps because of their daily closeness to the victims of mental illness — to see beyond the pathology of the psychotic state itself ; their failure to appreciate our — or rather Sylvia Plath 's — point made earlier : that when insane the psychotic individual is too preoccupied struggling against overpersonalised or idiosyncratic thoughts to create effectively . |
| 16 | Even then she might have decided not to answer him , or she could have let it be seen by accident before knowing what it was . |
| 17 | Much more important , the interior ministry has let it be known that it is dropping its draconian controls on the use of photocopying machines . |
| 18 | Sir Alan has in the past written about his deep misgivings over intervention and has recently let it be known in the City that he believes the economy is at last showing signs of pronounced slowdown , a view not fully shared by the Treasury . |
| 19 | The Bolsheviks had let it be known that they wished to end their war with Germany , and after The Revolution in October 1917 , in Russia , the Bolsheviks were able to seize power and , in December 1917 , they signed an alliance with Germany . |
| 20 | In fact there was nothing ‘ reasonable ’ about it , and Bismarck knew this , for at the first whisper of Leopold 's appearance on the scene the French Ambassador had , officially , let it be known to Berlin that this candidacy would never be accepted by Napoleon III . |
| 21 | ‘ Prof. Francis ’ was tolerated because he was so amiable ; he had let it be known that he had taught piano in an unnamed music conservatory somewhere , hence the professorship . |
| 22 | He would also have known that Palmerston , having let it be known that he had asked Scott to submit a new design , was very unlikely to change his mind , and it was perhaps to give the appearance of some purpose to the delegation that he and Tite made their request for another competition . |
| 23 | Mr Major has let it be known privately that the chancellor will not be moved in the New Year reshuffle . |
| 24 | By a chance remark in passing in the Sierra hotel bar where the foreigners were billeted , a remark in the hearing of a senior Iraqi scientist , the Swede had let it be known that he found the missile programme tedious , that he really needed more challenging work . |
| 25 | The 32 members of the Moores family who still own 100% of Littlewoods , have let it be known that the sale has begun ; the biggest part of the Littlewoods Organisation — mail order catalogues — is on the market , with a reputed price tag in excess ( probably well in excess ) of £350 million . |
| 26 | In fact , said Mr Liley , some companies in the field had tried this , but the customers had let it be known that this was not what was wanted . |
| 27 | Alia had also let it be known that Albania intended to take part in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , from which it alone had stood aside until now . |
| 28 | The government had let it be known on Sept. 30 that it would not now call a general election in 1991 . |
| 29 | As the recession deepened [ see below ] , the Hawke government began 1991 some 18 percentage points behind the opposition in opinion polls , raising questions concerning Hawke 's future as leader , particularly as Keating had let it be known at a National Press Club dinner in December that he believed he would make a better Prime Minister than Hawke . |
| 30 | He had let it be known that he would resign as faction leader and as a member of the Diet if he was publicly prosecuted in connection with the Sagawa Kyubin scandal . |