Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some declare it is caused by diet ; others are convinced it is a motility disorder or due to altered perception , a psychological disorder , a psychophysiological phenomenon , or even abnormal illness behaviour . |
| 2 | Napoleon III let it be known to both men that a simple withdrawal of the candidature would suffice and that France would then be glad to consider the whole affair closed . |
| 3 | For the 1984 exercise it was decided to involve course organisers in the collection of information , so that they would have an improved awareness of what their own students were doing after course completion . |
| 4 | Being practical people they all realise it 's going to be a while before DCE becomes reality . |
| 5 | Their importance to the level of employment at the port was recognised by the journeymen carpenters who in 1792 let it be known that if the slave trade were abolished they would riot and pull down the houses of leading abolitionists . |
| 6 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 7 | Consequently , there was some shock but no great surprise when on 11 March it was announced that Taurus — after more than a decade of planning and more than £400m in development costs — was to be scrapped . |
| 8 | From a starving stray it was transformed into a contented house cat . |
| 9 | A thick stolon was much delayed in its passage ; at one place it was forced to turn at right angles to its former course ; at another place it could not pass through the pins , and the hinder part became bowed ; it then curved upwards and passed through an opening between the upper part of some pins which happen to diverge ; it then descended and finally emerged through the crowd ’ ( Darwin , 1880 ) . |
| 10 | In the first place it is argued that this growing equality has been a ‘ relational ’ equality between men and women in the home . |
| 11 | In the first place it is argued that the real motive which underlay her ostentatious partisanship of enlightenment , especially in the 1760s , was not a concern for the well-being of her subjects or even a deep belief in ideas of enlightened government , but mere vanity . |
| 12 | In the first place it is associated , as I have noted , with a general movement towards greater equality , and is contested by those social theorists of the New Right ( King , 1987 ) who , in recent years , have criticized what they refer to as a ‘ dependency culture ’ , and have urged instead the creation or restoration of an ‘ enterprise culture ’ of a more individualistic kind , in which the role of the state and other public authorities in providing welfare services would be radically diminished . |
| 13 | In the first place it is proposed that the calculation of earnings-related pension is now based on 20 per cent of a lifetime 's average earnings ( forty years ) rather than 25 per cent of the best twenty years . |
| 14 | Subsequently , it failed to build on the extensive Radio One airplay it was given . |
| 15 | I apologise for any upset it 's caused you . ’ |
| 16 | Labelled DNA fragments were prepared by digestion with Hin dIII , labelled with α-[ 32 P ] dATP using reverse transcriptase and cut again with either Eco R1 or Sac I. Since the insert A 9 GCT 9 contains an internal Hin dIII site it was labelled at the Eco R1 end followed by cutting with Pst I. The labelled fragments of interest were separated from the remainder of the plasmid on 7% polyacrylamide gels . |
| 17 | BusinessWeek 's June 1 cover story on Intel , which puts its rushing out the P5 in a highly positive light , makes passing mention of an 80586 machine it 's designed under the code name Panther that OEMs can license describing it as ‘ a PC with workstation power . ’ |
| 18 | Well now , in the forest , besides the old man and his grandsons , there lived a tribe of goblins , hairy little creatures known as vookodlaks , whose greatest wish it was to get rid of the sun and live in darkness . |
| 19 | Next let it be considered , that the following law seems to hold in our attainment of knowledge , that according to its desirableness , whether in point of excellence , or range , or intricacy , so is the subtlety of the evidence on which it is received . |