Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 2 | " The only safe and correct approach is not to allow an injunction to remain , even for a single day , if it was clearly wrong for it to have been granted . " |
| 3 | The fire-ball of anger inside her had flared into life , and she had flown at him , screaming — what , she could hardly remember , except that more than half of it had been in Greek . |
| 4 | Most of the building was old and was covered in dark green ivy , but some of it had been built more recently and was of grim , black stone . |
| 5 | Remnants were found in the throat and gullet , as some of it had been swallowed . |
| 6 | ‘ My father discovered some of it had been stolen , even though he was still being sent a bill each month to cover storage , ’ said Cooper . |
| 7 | Erm we 've we 've actually developed social housing really rather as it 's been an opportunity we 've grabbed it and we 've done it , you know , some of it 's been very very good an and nobody 's knocking that but I think it is time that we took stock and actually had a a proper policy and a proper strategy on sa on social housing . |
| 8 | This is very attractive farmland , wide open fields , very intensively farmed , erm it 's very difficult to spot the aerodrome from driving round the area at all , erm some of it 's been taken up and incorporated into fields . |
| 9 | They can now say that some of it has been in the ground for more than a million years . |
| 10 | ‘ Some of it has been Sunday League stuff — and that is with due respect to anyone in the Sunday League . |
| 11 | Some of it has been disturbed by later developments : the site of the Early Iron Age , classical and Hellenistic city of Knossos overlaps with that of the Minoan city ( Hood and Smyth 1981 ) — but nevertheless much remains to be excavated . |
| 12 | Some of it has been established ‘ good practice ’ for several years , such as Portage , singled out for mention in the Warnock Report . |
| 13 | Some of it has been reclaimed for housing , new industry or agriculture but much remains to disfigure the landscape . |
| 14 | Some of it has been seen as justifiable because it seeks to ensure competition and prevent monopoly . |
| 15 | Tarragona Cathedral was begun in 1171 and has mainly pointed arches , but is predominantly Romanesque in its heavy construction and masonry though some of it has been rebuilt later . |
| 16 | She had barely slept last night — even what little of it had been left when she had finally crawled beneath the bedcovers . |
| 17 | Control — such as it had been — was passing out of British hands . |
| 18 | Much of it had been enclosed , and pasture-farming was the predominant mode of agriculture . |
| 19 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 20 | This led to doubt as to the effectiveness of the decree , which also ordered the colony 's property to be handed over to a Methodist church , even though much of it had been sold to individual members of the colony , who were not themselves to be subject to specific government action . |
| 21 | Much of it has been known before , from the account published by J. C. Masterman — one of the MI5 men concerned — in 1972 . |
| 22 | Much of it has been in the nature of self-examination : not least because the achievement of a high rate of economic growth became the central aim of political endeavour . |
| 23 | In terms of the content of this newer work — the question that is so often evaded — it is probably true to say that much of it has been ultimately concerned with the processes and exercise of power . |
| 24 | But much of it has been regarded as stemming from forces eager to interfere with and undermine the free economy , shifting the locus of decision from the market place and into the political arena . |
| 25 | It is possible that the beach on the exposed portions of the coast was originally much wider and that much of it has been destroyed by marine erosion at the present sea level , whereas it has been almost completely preserved in the narrow straits . |
| 26 | ‘ Much of it has been guesswork up ‘ til now . ’ |
| 27 | There had been a lot of talk among the customers about Harry Pascoe 's venture to the Americas , and not all of it had been complimentary . |
| 28 | His charm , his little anecdotes , even this scene played in the velvet darkness — all of it had been to answer the challenge she 'd so foolishly set before him . |
| 29 | John Delaney knew now that all along it had been hunting them , that it was still hunting them , waiting for the right moment to pick them off at will , one at a time . |
| 30 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |