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

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1 Before any cash was received from the sheep tax it was repealed and a fourth year of the property tax substituted in its place .
2 THE New York Times announced it is buying the Boston Globe for a record one billion dollars , making the Times the biggest newspaper company in the US north east .
3 6–2- " That whilst under the Old Testament Instrumental Music was prescribed as part of the Temple service it was removed along with the other peculiarities of that service , under the new and more spiritual dispensation from which ritualistic and sensuous forms of worship were excluded ; that no Instrumental Music was prescribed or practised by Christ and his Apostles …
4 As the brewery expanded it was rebuilt , taking in first of all , in 1889 , the old Lambeth Workhouse , and later the old Lambeth Town Hall .
5 MORE plans have been submitted for a new town centre shopping complex in Ipswich — just days after a major retailer announced it was pulling out of the town .
6 Most of the birds were pairs , and staff at the sanctuary say it 's devastated the centre 's breeding programme .
7 Most of the birds were pairs , and staff at the sanctuary say it 's devastated the centre 's breeding programme .
8 My police contacts say it 's thought she was the victim of a random attack by a thief . ’
9 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 .
10 Proper hospital smell Lysol it was called .
11 Indeed , highly finished details and the gentle lines of the face coupled with the oval base suggest it was designed as a cabinet piece .
12 He added : ‘ If the Jockey Club thinks it is making progress it must believe the moon is green . ’
13 December 1991 : The Academy of Culinary Arts announced it was facing liquidation .
14 WEDNESDAY : U.S.-owned Anglo Great Lakes announced it was closing its graphite manufacturing plant at Newburn , on Tyneside , with the loss of 230 jobs .
15 Although the Labour Party adopted a policy of ‘ comprehensive education for all ’ in 1951 no political action to implement it was taken for another 14 years .
16 The British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association announced it was to change its name to British Hospitality Association ( BHA ) .
17 When the reply came it was to ask us to consider joining the team in September 1992 !
18 Acer Inc , Taipei , Taiwan says it is considering the possibility of cooperation with Nintendo Co Ltd in the electronic games industry and plans to submit a proposal to the Japanese company soon ; Acer denied a report that it would make electronic games on behalf of Nintendo .
19 The biscuit packets travelled on a conveyor over this machine , and if a packet did not fall within pre-set weight limits it was pushed off the conveyor , later to be opened and good biscuits fed back into the line .
20 TEXAS SAYS IT IS MAKING 50MHz VIKINGS IN 100,000s PER QUARTER
21 MacLeans says it 's owed £20,000 and this morning 's visit to Land Travel 's Bath headquarters left its Managing Director pessimistic about ever getting the money back .
22 MacLeans says it 's owed £20,000 and this morning 's visit to Land Travel 's Bath headquarters left its Managing Director pessimistic about ever getting the money back .
23 Ottaviani let it be known , however , that his Theological Commission would regard such votes as guidelines only , not directives .
24 Marie says it 's to keep the noise in , but I do n't reckon it works too well , cos you can hear them all over the house when they practise .
25 That means , he says , that TI realises it 's going to have to make ‘ lots and lots and lots ’ of chips to get a reasonable 50MHz yield .
26 The particular data structure it is manipulating occupies about six times as many bytes in memory as its length as a string of text .
27 It is doubtful whether at this stage even John Barratt envisaged it being driven all the way to the veins at Paddy End — as indeed it was in years to come .
28 But , early yesterday , the Belfast Brigade confirmed it was breaking up a move welcomed by the Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams .
29 In 1989 , industry claimed it was spending $34 billion a year to comply with pollution control legislation .
30 The Archive 's location in a university which has a reputation for excellence in social research ensures it is perceived to be upholding high standards .
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