Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speed it has is for motorway shunting . |
| 2 | Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance . |
| 3 | The blast has led to concern that the bank might be forced to decamp to another set of temporary premises — its third resting place in the 18 months it has been in existence — although this now seems unlikely . |
| 4 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10,000m nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to US president Jeff Sutherland . |
| 5 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10bn nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to ODB president Jeff Sutherland . |
| 6 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 7 | Write a report of between 1000 and 1500 words on your last period of work experience with particular emphasis on the benefit it has been to you . |
| 8 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 9 | Yet it would seem that Lenin well understood the kind of mediation that would be required between bureaucracy and the working class and that this is shown by his emphasis on the need to prevent the bureaucracy emerging under socialism as the privileged social stratum it had been under capitalism . |
| 10 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 11 | He adds , ‘ Whereas in other countries in Europe , EDS has grown through acquisition , in Spain it 's been through knocking on doors and selling the business . ’ |
| 12 | I show him how much I 've written here , how good a place it has been for me . |
| 13 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 14 | ‘ These last few days it 's been like a kind of magic carpet — we 've been so close , living on a heightened plane . |
| 15 | At present , however , it is worth observing that the degree of foregrounding in this passage , and the interpretative process it elicits are of a kind more readily associated with poetry than with prose . |
| 16 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 17 | Erm but I 've had to give it all up because I 'm too busy , so I do n't run it from anywhere now , but for the last er four or five years it 's been from the Hotel . |
| 18 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 19 | Alain did not know what a shock it had been to be dragged up those stairs and to find a room like a small time capsule , the very essence of the man she had not known still lingering there . |
| 20 | It was to be known whether the mines " are like to continue as they have been , & whether the Oare is like to continue at the same rate it hath been at , and whether it be of the same goodness as it hath been . " |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 22 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 23 | And sadly , many of the people it kills are in their middle years . |
| 24 | From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence . |
| 25 | There is no doubt that many of its customers have used loans in cases where they would previously have use ( more costly ) HP a 1977 survey showed that 59 per cent of the loans it made were for motor vehicle purchase . |
| 26 | Smooth and firm it had been under her own nervous touch , and she watched Miguel 's muscles , catching the sunlight as he dismounted and reached up to help her . |
| 27 | It probably does n't figure among the world 's top ten sellers for databases , but in Britain it 's been in the top three for years . |
| 28 | To face herself in a mirror without flinching : neat mid-brown hair that grew in orderly waves , a little longer than her father would have liked , almost to her shoulders , but not the shaggy bird 's nest it had been on Mars . |
| 29 | The Wey and Arun Junction Canal was formally closed in 1871 , leaving Newbridge Wharf as the terminus it had been before construction of this waterway , until the closure of the Arun Navigation in 1888 . |
| 30 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |