Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then followed a speech in her presence hinting that it was time Australia went it alone . |
| 2 | Contrary to some of the conclusions drawn from social scientific research suggesting that it is primarily home or family backgrounds that determines the level of educational performance , Edmonds proceeds to identify those characteristics of effective schools delivering marked improvements in children 's educational achievements . |
| 3 | And the wish keeps the illusion going as it were . |
| 4 | He confirms that he has no objection to the location of the seat providing that it is to the North of the large holly tree on his land . |
| 5 | As the boat rammed the steel plates , fabric ripping as it was dragged up against the rough barnacled side , he fired . |
| 6 | As expected formation of the low mobility complex was inhibited by the addition of antibody to Oct-1 confirming that it contains Oct-1 whereas the antibody had no effect on the formation of the high mobility complex indicating that it is formed by binding of a cervical protein distinct from Oct-1 ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 7 | So many are expected to attend tomorrow 's budget meeting that it 's open to ticket holders only , among them senior teachers . |
| 8 | The ban takes the form of a circular stating that it is illegal to sell , purchase , import , export or even carry tiger bones or rhino horns and that they may not be used in medicines . |
| 9 | The court refused to investigate the validity of the Act saying that it was unable to look beyond the parliamentary roll of statutes . |
| 10 | Under the 1984 Act , the PCA is empowered to : ( i ) choose , or veto the choice , of investigating officers , supervise their inquiries , and receive their final report ; ( ii ) monitor the speed and efficiency of the investigation and issue a statement to the Chief Constable saying whether it was satisfactorily carried out ; ( iii ) receive a Chief Constable 's decision on what action he intends to take as a result of an investigation and , if need be , overturn the decision ( either by preferring disciplinary charges or , if it believes an offence has been committed , referring the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions ) . |
| 11 | It was no longer a matter of one family or political grouping showing that it was domestically more powerful than any other . |
| 12 | The other cause of binding is the wood swelling because it is wet . |
| 13 | There was a sniff of disapproval signifying that it was out of court for a grown man to be still in his bedroom in mid-morning , and not at a place of work . |
| 14 | Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis . |
| 15 | At the international level , the US went into the crisis thinking that it was dealing with a second-division military power led by an incompetent petty dictator . |
| 16 | These corals look pretty disgusting when they shed mucus , and I ca n't be the only person ever to throw out a perfectly healthy specimen thinking that it was decomposing ! |
| 17 | Ms Diane Abbott , Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington , said the inner cities needed a war on drugs ‘ that enlists and involves the community , not a war that leaves the community feeling that it is under threat ’ . |
| 18 | The 1977 Whitford Committee Report however , reviewing UK Copyright law , dismissed a proposal for droit de suite stating that it was not fair , logical or practical for such a concept to be introduced into the UK . |
| 19 | So enticing is the red gape of a cuckoo nestling that it is not uncommon for ornithologists to see a bird dropping food into the mouth of a baby cuckoo sitting in some other bird 's nest ! |
| 20 | It is a sign of the success of this new Nimbus recording that it is far from effaced in such company , and will no doubt win this barnstorming masterwork of late-Romanticism many new friends . |
| 21 | But then you got three or four hundred a day coming and it was a little over-crowded . |
| 22 | It seems to be all questions this week , and I 've had a friend asking if it is possible to add stain to varnish to change the colour . |
| 23 | If they were going along trying to open shop doors , they could go in as a suspected person loitering but it was n't looked upon very favourably by the courts . |
| 24 | The government has already gone into court arguing that it is justified in not publishing the report — the case goes to the law lords on April 10th — and does not want to anticipate their decision . |
| 25 | At the end of May students demonstrated in Accra and in provincial cities in protest at the composition of the consultative assembly claiming that it was packed with government supporters . |
| 26 | Retail Week the other day gave a flavour of the debate elsewhere when it published an editorial declaring that it was ‘ Time for honesty on Sunday trading ’ . |
| 27 | This can be accommodated by providing a pointer or note at PS indicating that it is in fact PI . |
| 28 | On Feb. 7 , 1990 , the Secretary of State for the Environment , Brice Lalonde , told a Cabinet meeting that it was doubtful whether two of the four Loire dam projects would go ahead . |
| 29 | Specific point of the South Wales police authority 's difficulties , would he not say that at least they 're partly due to the police authority believing that it was going to be er underspending in the current year and being out in its calculations by about two million pounds , would n't you think that that was at least a factor ? |
| 30 | IBM Corp issued a statement last week confirming that it is ‘ expanding the role of AD/Cycle to support application development at the workgroup level ’ — moving to the local area network-based software engineering environment it is already offering for its AIX Unix users — but managed to avoid mentioning what was intended to be the core of AD/Cycle , Repository Manager/MVS at all . |