Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reproduction is excellent and the value for money it offers is phenomenal . |
| 2 | For centuries it has been a buttress against the onslaught of Chaos from the wastes to the north . |
| 3 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 4 | But for decades it 's been used as a giant dustbin . |
| 5 | By the end of March it had been announced that the coup organizers had disbanded their Council of National Reconciliation ( CRN ) and that a 25-member Transition Committee for the Salvation of the People ( CTSP ) had been established , with 10 military and 15 civilian members . |
| 6 | Of course it had been an accident — it must have been . |
| 7 | Of course it had been a silly question , but why had she been so cross ? |
| 8 | And of course it had been the Worm , clearly displayed in broken-up dots on the computer screen . |
| 9 | So there 's there 's lots of reasons to illustrate the point then and another thing of course it does is if it 's one you use on here it helps you remember you do n't have to have that written down because it 's there already produced if it 's a pre-prepared acetate as we call as we call it . |
| 10 | This approach , a very recent development for credit in this country ( though of course it has been accepted for many years as the basis of car insurance ratings ) , started in America . |
| 11 | But of course it has been all right . |
| 12 | Of course it has been altered and modernised inside to a great extent , but outside it remains as it was , a Louis-Phillippe property and therefore beautifully proportioned . ’ |
| 13 | This is what is normally called the problem of social order , and of course it 's been around in philosophy and , and social sciences , really since the beginning , and er , some of the greatest and earliest works of er , social philosophy like Plato 's Republic , are really in part about this er question . |
| 14 | Idealogically of course it 's been a battle of Left and Right the Right won , we 've had a return a resserection of the 'Hang Em , Flog Em' Brigade some ugly xenophobia at times and of course multipule attacks on the Media . |
| 15 | Yeah I 'm afraid afraid so , and of course it 's been damaged anyway now . |
| 16 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 17 | For centuries before the arrival of Westerners it had been the symbol of the soul and of eternal life ; and for the Chinese , who traded with the southern islands long before the time of Christ , the bird became associated with the phoenix myth — which crept across the continents into the mind of medieval Europe , even before it was known that the world was round . |
| 18 | I mean , wha what I would like to go on and say is , that er , which the change of administration it has been necessary to er , adopt a different way of , of developing the budget , and I think you 're quite right to erm , pay credit to the effort of the er , budget review er , sub-committee . |
| 19 | A company 's competitive position no longer ( solely ) depends on its internal capabilities ; it also depends on the type of relationships it has been able to establish with other firms and the scope of those relationships . |
| 20 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad … |
| 21 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad . |
| 22 | Now , I mean there 's no way they can say the money does n't go in and the last couple of months it 's been nine hundred and fifty pound , rather than seven hundred and fifty ! |
| 23 | In defence of fishing it has been alleged that , were it not for fishermen on our rivers , accidental or deliberate pollution would not be detected so quickly . |
| 24 | In the study of soils it has been argued ( Bridges , 1981 ) that soil geography aims to ‘ record and explain the development and distribution of soils on the surface of the earth ’ . |
| 25 | In Cornwall and the Midland Valley of Scotland it has been upgraded to a new digital standard , developed with Bergen University , which permits telephone access to sensors in these areas from anywhere in the United Kingdom or overseas . |
| 26 | In a number of areas of England it has been observed that early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are frequently close to parish boundaries , particularly in Wiltshire . |
| 27 | During the last century or so the Lane 's territory has been stolen by Station Road and Hopetown Lane , although in manner of compensation it has been up-graded to a road . |
| 28 | An act of defiance it had been , and look where it had got her . |
| 29 | Even with side stitches taken out of work it had been more than my machine and yarn wanted to tackle . |
| 30 | Since the end of May it had been beating irregularly . |