Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speed it has is for motorway shunting . |
| 2 | Write a report of between 1000 and 1500 words on your last period of work experience with particular emphasis on the benefit it has been to you . |
| 3 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 4 | Yet it would seem that Lenin well understood the kind of mediation that would be required between bureaucracy and the working class and that this is shown by his emphasis on the need to prevent the bureaucracy emerging under socialism as the privileged social stratum it had been under capitalism . |
| 5 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 6 | I show him how much I 've written here , how good a place it has been for me . |
| 7 | At present , however , it is worth observing that the degree of foregrounding in this passage , and the interpretative process it elicits are of a kind more readily associated with poetry than with prose . |
| 8 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 9 | Alain did not know what a shock it had been to be dragged up those stairs and to find a room like a small time capsule , the very essence of the man she had not known still lingering there . |
| 10 | It was to be known whether the mines " are like to continue as they have been , & whether the Oare is like to continue at the same rate it hath been at , and whether it be of the same goodness as it hath been . " |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 12 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 13 | From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence . |
| 14 | Smooth and firm it had been under her own nervous touch , and she watched Miguel 's muscles , catching the sunlight as he dismounted and reached up to help her . |
| 15 | To face herself in a mirror without flinching : neat mid-brown hair that grew in orderly waves , a little longer than her father would have liked , almost to her shoulders , but not the shaggy bird 's nest it had been on Mars . |
| 16 | The Wey and Arun Junction Canal was formally closed in 1871 , leaving Newbridge Wharf as the terminus it had been before construction of this waterway , until the closure of the Arun Navigation in 1888 . |
| 17 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |
| 18 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 19 | Although his letter does not deny that Chlothild had a part to play in Clovis 's conversion , nor that the king decided to accept baptism during a battle against the Alamans , in some respects the information it contains is at odds with Gregory 's account and , therefore , with the traditional interpretation of events . |
| 20 | ‘ Responsibility is accepted in the preparation of this report for the skill and diligence reasonably to be expected of a competent surveyor and valuer but the information it contains is for the confidential information only of the clients for whom it is prepared and of any building society , bank or other lender to whom written application for a mortgage advance has been made or will be made within 28 days after the date of this report . |
| 21 | Art Basel reigns supreme among art fairs for a number of reasons : for the length it has been in existence ; for the fact that it was the first fair to introduce a selection committee ; and because of its timing . |
| 22 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 23 | We 've always had drams , but the way it developed was like a natural progression . |
| 24 | The dock was fenced off , but not the way it had been as a real dock , with real cargoes to steal . |
| 25 | This was having something in common with your lover , she thought , remembering the way it had been with Mike , who was interested only in banking and golf and what he called making a home for one 's family . |
| 26 | That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember . |
| 27 | In his pronouncements , science was no longer subordinate to theology in the way it had been for Roger Bacon , Thomas Aquinas , or Nicole Oresme . |
| 28 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 29 | The way it works is by injecting nitrogen gas into a 2.45GHz microwave plasma . |
| 30 | That is the way he conducts his business and that is the way it has been for centuries . ’ |