Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a surprising finding for it was thought — with the image of the Yorkshire Ripper search in mind — that the police investigation of major sex murders would be a prime fodder for newspapers . |
| 2 | It 's all very well to read through something , but the main part about it is to remember what you 've read . |
| 3 | A quantity of dance-music for it is preserved , imperfectly , in the so-called ‘ Walsingham Consort Books ’ of approximately the same date , and the combination is depicted accompanying the wedding masque in the Henry Unton memorial painting of a few years later . |
| 4 | In the fifteenth century London remained under merchant rule : all but 6 of the 88 men who were mayor during it were drawn from the 6 greatest companies , the mercers , grocers , drapers , fishmongers , goldsmiths and skinners . |
| 5 | And I think it 's , a great deal of it is to do with failed expectations . |
| 6 | The original conception of ‘ the return of Mrs. Porter ’ would be pointless , or at least only a prolongation of horror , since life itself and the regeneration of it are seen , at bottom , as hideous . |
| 7 | The bulk of it is designated under Articles 3(3) and 3(4) as shown in Figure 8 ( see Chapter 3 ) , i.e. ‘ mountain areas in which farming is necessary to protect the countryside ’ and ‘ Less-favoured areas in danger of depopulation ’ , respectively . |
| 8 | Those few pages will have gone , but the bulk of it is hidden . |
| 9 | But the bulk of it was done by way of the tutorial , a weekly session in which the pupil read aloud an essay of some three thousand words to his tutor and they then discussed it . |
| 10 | However , the bulk of it was brought together by his son , Franz-Ernst ( 1659–1727 ) and , in turn , the latter 's great-grand-son , Josef ( 1773–1861 ) . |
| 11 | This painting is now lost but a photograph of it was reproduced in Stamford Then and Now , a limited edition commemorative volume produced by Stamford Corporation in 1951 , and the drawing on page 76 is a copy of it . |
| 12 | The effect was beautiful , as even a serpent is beautiful once the fear of it is overcome . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ Unemployment and the fear of it is having a corrosive effect on our economy . |
| 14 | Anyway , I 'm through with the fiction , so that side of it 's sewn up . ’ |
| 15 | And then , each side of it 's making contact and it 's gone into a hole that size , and it 's moving it ai n't making contact . |
| 16 | Well I work as a psychotherapist and it seems to me that for some people change is impossible and when that is the case then its my job to help them to come to terms with who they are and what they are and how there going to remain , but the other side of it is helping people to change and I have to say usually its to loose weight , that 's the biggest reason people want to change . |
| 17 | The practical effect of it is to reduce the law 's interest in implying duties largely for the reason that public policy demands that an employee be free to work for whom he chooses . |
| 18 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 19 | The insert procedure itself varies somewhat from model to model , but the essence of it is to arrange for the over-recording to end at a pre-determined out point . |
| 20 | The essence of it is summed up in the old proverb : " Give a man a fish and he is satisfied for a day : teach him how to fish and he will be satisfied for the rest of his life . " |
| 21 | The tow held steady , but the weight of it was forcing him further and further off the wind . |
| 22 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |
| 23 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion . |
| 24 | The intention behind it is to help unmask the metaphysical problems surrounding the " existence predicates " as essentially sham problems . |
| 25 | The idea behind I had in mind with it was to make a champagne fountain . |
| 26 | Unless serious attempts are made , the region and Christian witness in it are heading towards catastrophe . |
| 27 | Yeah , put the light on it 's getting a bit |
| 28 | The key to it is choosing the problem correctly . |
| 29 | ‘ The key to it is to develop a parental relationship ’ , he said . |
| 30 | It is part of your professional obligations to ensure that the full price is properly recorded on the conveyancing documentation , and if any part of it is to remain outstanding , it could always be secured by a loan agreement or indeed by a mortgage back to the seller . |