Example sentences of "[noun pl] it be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |
| 2 | For centuries it was persecuted and the cruelties heaped upon it were given the full backing of the Church . |
| 3 | For centuries it was ordained that , despite the evidence , everything in the Universe circled the Earth : a number of people were put to death because they happened to disagree . |
| 4 | To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations . |
| 5 | In one study of a small group of wrist-slashers it was found that more than half were well , or had shown improvement , 5–6 years later ( Nelson and Grunebaum 1971 ) . |
| 6 | As it happens , in the early days of computers it was thought that it would be only a few years before computers would be able to understand natural language . |
| 7 | From these relationships it was established that total leakages ( T + S + M ) must equal total injections ( G + I + X ) . |
| 8 | Once again , plot is conceived of as compositional process , a bringing-into-being ; in other words it is conceived as something quite different from what one of the novel 's characters describes as a ‘ crappy mystical adventure story ’ . |
| 9 | In other words it is said that a verdict of death aggravated by lack of care may be appropriate once there is an inquest but the availability of such a verdict does not determine the question whether or not there should be an inquest . |
| 10 | In other words it is assumed that the difficulty of the item will be the same for any individual irrespective of his or her previous learning experiences etc . |
| 11 | In other words it was recognised that community care is not necessarily , and not for ail , a cheaper form of care . |
| 12 | When considering a whole range of variables it is found that those social characteristics indicative of a low position of wealth or status do not appear among persons treated as criminal more often than one would expect from their proportion among the general population . |
| 13 | ( After discussion with staff in schools it was agreed that the checklist was an inappropriate means of analysis for a satirical fable such as Animal Farm . ) |
| 14 | At the end of four months it was discovered that he was only just sixteen . |
| 15 | In mid-1974 he developed phlebitis — inflammation of the veins — and within months it was revealed that he had a thrombosis which could have killed him in seconds . |
| 16 | In other academic areas it is assumed that the teacher knows more than the student , and is there to convey this knowledge , whether as a corpus or a skill . |
| 17 | In some areas it was acknowledged that these plots contributed substantially to the food supply . |
| 18 | In some areas it was reported that large numbers of troops had ben deployed to restore order . |
| 19 | Lloyd 's Underwriters , where despite the opposition of the defendants it was ordered that the taking of depositions before an examiner of the court should , as had been requested by the foreign court , be videotaped . |
| 20 | In a comparison between blocking and non-blocking strains of mice it was shown that the potential of embryos to arrest at the 2-cell stage is determined solely by the genotype of the egg and occurs irrespective of the paternal or embryonic contribution ( 18 ) . |
| 21 | In five of the six companies it was found that the planning department could be involved in special projects on an ad hoc basis . |
| 22 | In most of the early work on quantity constrained models it was assumed that any observed general unemployment had to be either classical or Keynesian but not both at the same time . |
| 23 | Should the War Wagon take 5 wounds it is destroyed and the model removed from the battle . |
| 24 | Thus , in Hanson v. Church Commissioners it was held that where the matter was one in which there was a wider public interest it may not be possible for one party to withdraw without the assent of the other once the proceedings were begun . |
| 25 | The road ran straight ahead of us until it disappeared in the mist , except that at the man 's feet it was gone and there was a gap some fifty metres or so wide through which a brown torrent ran so high and in such furious waves that it almost lipped the broken macadam where the road had been swept away . |
| 26 | Under the circumstances it is astounding that people managed to reach agreement so quickly . |
| 27 | There is thus a slight caveat on the point but subject to exceptional circumstances it is felt that taxpayers can now safely assume that income arising in an underlying company which is owned by the overseas trust can not be caught by Part XV of TA 1988 . |
| 28 | For four decades it was supposed that Hicks 's model contained all of the basic ingredients of the General Theory approach to the theory of employment . |
| 29 | Are those empirical credentials sufficient , however , to sustain the metaphysical implications it is thought that the laws have ? |
| 30 | In the recession of the early 1980s this service suffered immensely through poor sales and ultra high terminations — in those days it was said that washroom would be the hardest hit in any recession because it was not seen as an essential service ; much confidence was , then lost in the service . |