Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engineers in Germany successfully fired thrusters on Aug. 7 to boost the European Space Agency ( ESA ) US$400,000,000 Eureka research satellite to an altitude of 507 km from a dangerously low orbit of 100km where it had been stuck due to data communication problems . |
| 2 | It is the recognition of this principle and its implications which is particularly characteristic of Labov 's approach to data : ‘ for the section of speech being examined all occurrences of a given variant are noted , and where it has been possible to define the variables as a closed set of variants , all non-occurrences in the relevant environments ’ ( Labov 1982a : 30 ) . |
| 3 | Recall the requirements of this principle ( cf. 6.1 ) that ‘ all occurrences of a given variant are noted , and where it has been possible to define the variable as a closed set of variants , all non-occurrences of the variant in the relevant circumstances ’ ( Labov 1982a : 30 ) . |
| 4 | The professional role has been minimal , and , where it has been relevant has been facilitative rather than directive or initiating . |
| 5 | The Red Poll 's greatest successes overseas are in Jamaica , Brazil and other Latin American countries where it has been instrumental in the creation of types bred for local conditions , such as the Jamaica Red , Pitangueiras ( Brazil ) , La Velasquez ( Colombia ) , Senepol ( US Virgin Islands ) and possibly the Romosinuano ( Colombia ) . |
| 6 | Although it had been common for surgeons to expect suppuration of the wound as an inevitable concomitant of amputation , Alanson demonstrated that by these methods it was possible for these wounds to heal ‘ by the first intention ’ , that is , without significant infection . |
| 7 | This system was formalised in the year 802 , although it had been operational in early forms during the preceding years of his reign . |
| 8 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 9 | Although it has been operational for a while , it was only recently that Ski survey visited this slope , to attend a Peter Lightfoot ski course . |
| 10 | Although it has been difficult to achieve improved performance , Martin Houldin of KPMG 's environment unit , remains confident that the initiative is progressing well . |
| 11 | A month ago my bank informed me that it had been obliged to arrest £250 of my money to satisfy a court order obtained by sheriff officers . |
| 12 | He 'd seen Nancy and Frank embracing in the back of the car , so closely entwined that it had been impossible to guess what else they were doing . |
| 13 | As Agnes hurried down the street it came to her that it had been tactless of her to talk about life being dull and with no bright future ; for had they any bright future ? |
| 14 | I wondered if she still felt that it had been worthwhile to appear in the film . |
| 15 | The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 — that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy — carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation . |
| 16 | ‘ This is what Fael-Inis wanted , ’ thought Taliesin , and knew , even as the thought formed , that Fael-Inis had not wanted it , but that it had been necessary . |
| 17 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |
| 18 | We reckoned that the British Army was the most professional in the world and that it had been influential in training the South African and Israeli armies who we thought took second and third place . |
| 19 | ‘ I told him that it had been great . ’ |
| 20 | It is also the same week that the Bank of England ( whose governor was last year awarded a £22,000 pay increase ) admitted that it had been over-optimistic when three months ago it predicted the recession was ending . |
| 21 | When the result of the canvass was conveyed to me I had no doubt whatever that it had been thorough and honest and that I could command the necessary support in Parliament . |
| 22 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 23 | After 1986 parliamentary concern shifted towards the security service or MI5 , particularly because of allegations that it had been involved in attempts to smear elected politicians during the 1970s . |
| 24 | Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen . |
| 25 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 26 | In March 1143 Pope Innocent II decreed that its validity was to depend on Ste Barbe swearing that it had been canonical ; he had not made this oath by February 1146 , when Eugenius III suspended Fitzherbert . |
| 27 | On Oct. 1 the United Kingdom bank Standard Chartered admitted to the committee that it had been aware of violations of banking guidelines by its Indian subsidiary some 18 months before the scandal erupted . |
| 28 | They were adamant that it had been clear all along , they 'd suspected something from the start . |
| 29 | In answer to a leading question about the temperature Of the room , he reflected that it had been cold and draughty . |
| 30 | Not that it had been difficult , he thought disgustedly . |