Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE New York Times announced it is buying the Boston Globe for a record one billion dollars , making the Times the biggest newspaper company in the US north east . |
| 2 | My police contacts say it 's thought she was the victim of a random attack by a thief . ’ |
| 3 | The sparing use of the Practice Statement is confirmed by the statistics : the use of the Statement was made 39 times between 1966 and the end of 1989 , but in only 12 cases has it been applied to overrule a previous decision . |
| 4 | December 1991 : The Academy of Culinary Arts announced it was facing liquidation . |
| 5 | WEDNESDAY : U.S.-owned Anglo Great Lakes announced it was closing its graphite manufacturing plant at Newburn , on Tyneside , with the loss of 230 jobs . |
| 6 | Ottaviani let it be known , however , that his Theological Commission would regard such votes as guidelines only , not directives . |
| 7 | Kurunagala and parts of the districts bordering it were singled out as suffering from an inordinate amount of cattle theft . |
| 8 | With the RAF roundels removed it was repainted as ‘ DU–A ’ , the commander 's machine , and it now proudly again carries this livery . |
| 9 | The United Nations said it was planning to build on its success and was hoping to get another aid convoy through to the embattled town tomorrow . |
| 10 | Unsuccessful attempts to replace it were made in the fifties and sixties . |
| 11 | Japan 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications says it is planning to build an administrative network that will link the local area networks used in government offices across the country , but the plan is still in its embryonic stages ; at the same time the ministry is studying a proposal for a fibre to the home project that plans to get Japanese households connected up by 2015 ; total infrastructure costs are estimated at about $256,000m . |
| 12 | They are interested in why they are paying such a high price for a service and why the company or companies providing it are making enormous profits when they are in a protected monopoly . |
| 13 | Lyndall Sachs of the Belgrade office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said it was hoped that another convoy could be sent in as early as today . |
| 14 | ( p489 ) Thus , in the Ashington Piggeries case it was held that herring meal , containing the poison DMNA , had not lost its identity as herring meal " fair average quality " of the season , since this was a statement of quality and not description . |
| 15 | Only in recent years has it been straightened . |
| 16 | Only in the last ten or so years has it been realized that infection can be spread quite easily by these practices and may pose problems as far as treatment is concerned . |
| 17 | NOT for almost five years has it been thought necessary to preview a meeting of the General Committee of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club but today , at 5.30pm at Headingley , the 22 members will gather knowing that once again they wil be under intense scrutiny by the media . |
| 18 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 19 | He spent a world record £13m on Gianluigi Lentini last year and some observers say it was to stop others having him , not because Milan needed him . |
| 20 | STV propagandists let it be understood that each major party will put up a candidate for every seat . |
| 21 | Officials let it be understood that Turkey would not object to Kurdish autonomy in a federal Iraq , but Özal , interviewed on March 29 , said that the Kurdish leaders " were clearly told they should definitely not consider a separate state " . |
| 22 | All the houses looked like Gloucester in the olden days andf it was snowing in the streets . |
| 23 | If a right to a longer turn is obtained its ending must also be signalled so that the other participants know it is finished and a contribution from them will not be construed as an interruption . |
| 24 | All her opponents know it is coming and , in theory , it is the easiest thing in the world to stop — you just step backwards . |
| 25 | One of the many advantages of a delicensed black cab is that unless the cops know it 's delicensed , the chances of getting pulled for not wearing a seat-belt are fairly remote . |
| 26 | Dr Longstaff said : ‘ Our study will enable us to find out more about the causes of asthma , suggest ways of preventing it , and make sure the resources to treat it are used to best effect . ’ |
| 27 | By the number of leaf stalks revealed it was discovered how many lies a friend had told that day and a long stalk indicated a big lie . |
| 28 | The organisers say it 's to help politicians guage public feeling … but the MP says he does n't want to know . |
| 29 | Council officers say it is targeted at tour operators and coach companies , giving details of top attractions , accommodation , transport facilities and interpreters . |
| 30 | Since then , Sarawak 's logging activity has increased : official figures suggest it is taking at least 18 million cubic metres , with a possible further illegal cut of seven million cubic metres . |