Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it 's thirty six pound a year to be a member there but if you are a keen sportsman their facilities are well worth using because it 's a very very good sports centre indeed . |
| 2 | Richard is responsible for seeing that it is done . |
| 3 | Now who will be responsible for seeing that it 's there ? ’ |
| 4 | Other automated items such as baskets and shake alarms ( signalling the moment during cooking when it is necessary to shake the basket so as to ensure even cooking throughout ) are already available as an option on many machines , while some units will even tell you when to change the oil ! |
| 5 | Traditionally , hill sheep farmers have sold store lambs to lowland farmers for fattening and it is the latter who should benefit from the variable premia . |
| 6 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 7 | September is one of my favourite months for walking as it 's invariably cooler — and wetter , it 's true ! — yet the days are still long and it 's easier to avoid the crowds . |
| 8 | A fourth , after asking if it were April the first , collapsed into giggles and hung up . |
| 9 | Waiter bought the restaurant after hearing that it was set to become a pizza parlour . |
| 10 | In one sense these findings may be seen as an argument for mainstreaming and it is appropriate to pause for a moment to consider this view . |
| 11 | It is worth remembering that it is useful to the Bank to know what their customers think of the services they receive : it enables them to improve upon the services they offer . |
| 12 | This crater was known as the Etang Sec , or dry tarn , a name worth remembering because it was later to become the focus of the eruption proper . |
| 13 | Yet the high-momentum electrons and positrons observed must eventually be explained somehow and it is perhaps worth remarking that it is not new in physics for novel phenomena to be observed when looking for something else . |
| 14 | In either case the officer must have reasonable grounds for believing that it is necessary to seize the evidence there and then to prevent it being destroyed . |
| 15 | In The Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) , the evidence is summarized for believing that it was in the Central Court that the bull-leaping ritual took place , a ceremony that was itself central to the Minoan belief-system . |
| 16 | The consequences for a purchaser of receiving an unlawful distribution are provided by CA 1985 , s277 and will essentially require a purchaser , who at the time of distribution , knew or had reasonable grounds for believing that it was an unlawful distribution sale , to be made liable to repay the distribution to the vendor . |
| 17 | The main reason for believing that it was neglected was its complete absence from any cinema newsreels of the period . ’ |
| 18 | Either the place was worth searching or it was n't . |
| 19 | Excitement had been steadily rising in the crowded chamber during the closing stages of the debate on a new clause to be added to the Criminal Justice Bill , but jubilation found vent in a roar of cheering when it was evident how the vote had gone … |
| 20 | I do him the credit of suggesting that it was not of his invention . |
| 21 | The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant . |
| 22 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 23 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 24 | At the end of the road the huge bulk of the church with its soaring walls of smoke-blackened brick looked as much out of keeping as it was out of scale with this small domestic self-sufficiency . |
| 25 | The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging … |
| 26 | ‘ In the first place , there is the doctrine , which may now perhaps be regarded as a rule of evidence , that , if a voluntary disposition in favour of the husband is impeached , the burden of establishing that it was not improperly or unfairly procured may be placed upon him by proof of circumstances raising any doubt or suspicion . |
| 27 | However exciting his paper , his thesis seemed in danger of crumbling if it were reworked into a conventional historical discourse . |
| 28 | Roger Thetford says it 's an extension of orinteering and it 's a real challenge |
| 29 | Evaluation of the editorial " Bradshaw shift " is not simply a matter of deciding whether it is right or wrong . |
| 30 | Perhaps the sentence ‘ Is it raining ? ’ expresses the state of wondering whether it is raining , and the sentence ‘ Shut the window , please ’ expresses the state of wishing the hearer to shut the window . |