Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [be] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem SAVE faced was that it had been so disfigured by later alterations that many people doubted it was of sufficient interest to merit saving . |
| 2 | Erm in t the second most important criterion I would have thought is that it needs to be on a public transport corridor . |
| 3 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 4 | Well er we , we 've taken a , a , a policy view over the years because the group has a number of er very attractive er products and , and , and , and shareholders have frequently asked if was possible erm , to have concessions in all sorts of areas and the view we 've taken is that it involves a , a , a , a , a great deal of administration and that our real job is to er increase the profits of the business er , a as well as we can and then to pay dividends to the shareholders erm who will er , er , then use that money er , hopefully to buy a good number of our products . |
| 5 | What Peano had suggested was that it might be possible , not to take the simple ideas with which people had hitherto operated in mathematics as ultimate , but to derive them from something simpler still . |
| 6 | The reason as we have seen is that it succeeds in employing more information than any alternative system . |
| 7 | What many of the six million tourists who visit Hong Kong each year have discovered is that it is much more than a traditional eating-out and shop-till-you-drop paradise . |