Example sentences of "[verb] it [be] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place it is to be accepted that it is made in wide terms though it is not said that they are so imprecise that there is a doubt as to what is covered by the order . |
| 2 | Sarah says it 's like being in the condemned cell and being let out . |
| 3 | I 've always said it 's like being a race horse , you have to train so hard . |
| 4 | Now , less than 12 months later we are told it is to be withdrawn on February 23 . |
| 5 | I know we used the video but that was for a very specific reason but if you know have you ever been to one of those lectures where there 's there 's overheads going on here and then they go and they write on there and they you have some slides and then you have a video and then you know it 's like being at Wimbledon . |
| 6 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |
| 7 | DAUGHTERS of the rich and famous had to be evacuated from their boarding school yesterday after the headmistress discovered it was to be the site of a massive rave party . |
| 8 | For the briefest second I wonder why my Thomas the Tank Engine mobile has been taken down , but assume it is to be re-positioned to make room for the present . |
| 9 | He decided it was worth being polite . |
| 10 | Residents were worried that adaptations to the building at the corner of Bow Street and Princes Road meant it was to be used as a morgue . |
| 11 | Crowds of chanting protestors gathered in the town centre as the 65-year-old Edinburgh man addressed a bunch of supporters at the King 's Head Hotel which did not realise it was to be the BNP 's venue . |
| 12 | Though approaching early middle age , on the outbreak of the last world war he at once abandoned his pursuits for active service and very hard service it was to be . |
| 13 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 14 | But from the moment that the electorate realised it was to be stripped of its Deutschemark , a symbol of nationhood , Germans began to wonder how much else had been given away . |
| 15 | With economic vision so blinkered it was to be expected that the economy would be allowed to drift with the market situation and without significant and positive government direction . |
| 16 | Absolutely tremendous , I mean it was like being inside erm with a lot of people with us , there was about a hundred , a hundred and fifty people here . |
| 17 | Extending the requirement for leave to appeal It was to be hoped that in the context of forthcoming legislation , consideration would be given to extending the requirement for leave to appeal across the board , both because there was no justification for allowing any appeal to proceed if it had no prospect of success and because the present dividing lines between those in which leave was required and those in which it was not , was quite illogical . |
| 18 | When Jack and Alick , after being shipwrecked and narrowly escaping murder , starvation and sundry other perils , are reunited with Terence on board a brig-of-war , he declares it is worth being lost when reunion is so pleasant and ends with a flourish : ‘ Old fellows , I knew you would come back somehow or other ; I always said so ; astride of a dolphin , if in no other way … ’ |
| 19 | But I think it 's to be welcomed that a medical panel will be established . |
| 20 | I think it 's from being a haulier to being a parcel carrier now , Peter . |
| 21 | When she heard how a new doctor had been called in , all the familiar names having left Florence previously thinking it was to be plunged into war , she felt indignant — why was she not called in , she who knew more about Mrs Browning 's illnesses than any other person ? |
| 22 | When public opinion is central to the fortunes of a government , unscrupulous expedients to manipulate it are to be expected . |
| 23 | Still as I say , no , th it 's , it 's a fair comment to say it 's to be expected . |
| 24 | As events unfolded and the Library Association failed to act it is to be viewed as a piece of misfortune for the Code , and hence the Association and for the profession . |
| 25 | He said it 's to be as realistic as we dare to make it . |
| 26 | But when I became spokesman in opposition myself and he was the Foreign Secretary and we were sparring partners again , I made a nice remark about him and he said it was like being nuzzled by an old ram . |
| 27 | Mr Currie said it was like being ‘ back in medieval times ’ , as he surveyed a table laden with kitchen knives , swords and home-made weapons including a rolling pin with spikes on the end . |
| 28 | If the key requested is 24 , then the index table will be searched to see in which block it is to be found . |
| 29 | You see it 's like being chopped in two in n it ? |