Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having just completed long negotiations with the various provider units in the area , the authority is now keen to ensure contracts are honoured and it gets the best value healthcare available . |
| 2 | However its influence to date has been limited as it covers perhaps too broad an area . |
| 3 | We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute . |
| 4 | She 'd been taught that it paid to be passive . |
| 5 | Brownlow felt he 'd been rebuked and it irritated him . |
| 6 | I should have been consulted because it affected me too , she thought , and wrote a terse letter to him . |
| 7 | There had been a tremendous hash made of one contract by her predecessor , it was true , but that had all but been completed when it had landed on her desk , so there was no way she could be held to account for it . |
| 8 | The mosaic from Roxby , Lincs. , ( Fowler 1818 , no. 3 ) , has not been included as it shows more certain affinities with pavements in southern Lincolnshire and the area around Water Newton , Cambs. , ( Smith 1969 , 108 ) . |
| 9 | Both share and asset purchases are included and it makes no difference whether the merger is agreed or hostile . |
| 10 | Traditional teaching of English literature has been attacked because it creates in the pupil a mood of passivity , an instinctive submission to authority . |
| 11 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 12 | One previous case of bilateral ureteric obstruction after pancreatitis has been reported and it has also been described in an alcoholic patient with a large pseudocyst . |
| 13 | The meaning of " written standard terms of business 's has already been considered and it seems clear that s3 will always apply to terms in standard terms of trading . |
| 14 | So it is possible that , in the course of evolution , the preening activity of the male has been accentuated because it signals to a female that he is in a state of conflict . |
| 15 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 16 | During the rituals for initiation into each successive age-set the ‘ true ’ meanings of certain sacred objects are revealed and it transpires that the interpretations given at the previous stage were false or partial . |
| 17 | It has a small head , its arms are upraised and it appears to wear trunks supported by a thick twisted cable round the waist . |
| 18 | It is very important that the water remains in traps — and , in fact , the Building Regulations are contravened if it does n't . |
| 19 | Chart 13 shows Mr Moore 's findings : in the successful sample the average ratio of long-term debt to assets was 62.4% after the LBO had been made but it fell to 37.6% by the third year as assets were sold and debt paid off . |
| 20 | ‘ Asking the wrong question ’ or ‘ irrelevancy ’ tells one that an error has been made but it does not tell one whether the error is jurisdictional . |
| 21 | It has been argued that it covers not only fairness , in the sense of fairness to the accused , but also in the sense of ensuring that , in the eyes of the public , the highest standards of justice are upheld and it appears to the world at large that the accused is getting a fair trial . |
| 22 | It has been argued that it did not actually initiate any changes in the mental health field , rather it endorsed the developments that were already taking place within hospitals and in the community . |
| 23 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 24 | The Commission has been instructed that it does not have to follow a uniform pattern throughout the country and therefore we may see still greater diversity over time as , in one shire , we see the county council survive and in another the district councils . |
| 25 | It has been argued that it covers not only fairness , in the sense of fairness to the accused , but also in the sense of ensuring that , in the eyes of the public , the highest standards of justice are upheld and it appears to the world at large that the accused is getting a fair trial . |
| 26 | Yeah well b well what I 'm trying to say and I ca n't emphasise it too strongly is that I do n't want anybody going round like writing another stupid letter to somebody saying that erm you know the reason we 're inundated that it has n't been advertised properly cos I tell you what it 'll come back right in our faces cos it 's our bloody fault Well that 's right well we know that I mean I told them all I told them all quite clearly when I was up in Glasgow that they 'd be quiet for at least a month because p it 'll take time to filter through . |
| 27 | ‘ You only stay where you 're wanted and it does n't seem as though I 'm in Sunderland 's long-term plans . ’ |
| 28 | Having lived with the passage for years , I am persuaded that it represents — based , as it plainly is , on Aeneid 1 , 341ff. , and 4 — a response to veteris vestigia flammae drastically at odds with Hardy 's response ( which , as we have seen , Pound had apparently not noticed in any case ) . |
| 29 | We 've been told that it has n't been trialed because it was produced in a hurry . |
| 30 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |