Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One story told against the KGB is that it tried to steal the design secrets of the Anglo-French supersonic aircraft Concorde . |
| 2 | Compania de Telefonos de Chile SA 's $182.6m proposed convertible bond issue won ratings of triple-B-minus rating from Standard & Poor 's Corp , and Baa-3 from Moody 's Investors Service Inc ; Standard & Poor 's said its rating reflects the company 's dominant position in local telephone services , growth prospects , and favourable regulatory framework ; Moody 's that it believes the company will continue to be the largest telecommunications company in Chile and will benefit from a supportive regulator . |
| 3 | The importance of the recent discovery of this document recording the conclusions of the conferences of 26–27 May is that it fills in what have hitherto been two of the most significant gaps in the whole story . |
| 4 | The value of ITED is that it pinpoints strengths and weaknesses precisely . ’ |
| 5 | The problem in West Yorkshire is that it costs more there to put a police man on the beat , and the authority spends more per head of the population . |
| 6 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 7 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 8 | The one useful generalisation about war in impoverished Africa is that it takes place where there are not many expensive weapons for soldiers to kill each other with , but where the conditions of organised life are so fragile that its disruption causes lots of civilians to die of famine and disease . |
| 9 | However , with all these reservations and qualifications noted there is a city called Tyneside and in 1989 North Shields is part of it as it always has been and Cramlington is as it has been since the early 1970s . |
| 10 | The significance of My Lai is that it threatened the American national myth — that of moral superiority . |
| 11 | One of the objections frequently made about CAI is that it does not permit student-student interaction . |
| 12 | The only redeeming feature of a goalless , worthless event at Stamford Bridge was that it did not require a grant . |
| 13 | The only excuse for the House of Lords is that it exists . |
| 14 | One qualification that should be made to the general formula that Lord Goddard laid down in Hinchcliffe v. Sheldon is that it appears to make a person guilty of obstructing by omission , and the view may be expressed that this is not the law . |
| 15 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 16 | The value of Epoc is that it contains Gamma Linolenic Acid ( GLA ) . |
| 17 | Although the Army and MI5 still retain some independent intelligence gathering capabilities in the province , the system is now largely centralised and works well — the IRA itself has admitted that one of the reasons it has exported a growing proportion of its violence to the continent and mainland Britain is because it has become increasingly risky for them to operate on home territory . |
| 18 | The real message of the BCS is that it calls into question assumptions about crime upon which people 's concern is founded . |
| 19 | But then the problem with a television tour of Europe is that it begins with the familiar . |
| 20 | For many years the official view of the position of the police in liberal democracies like Britain was that it acted merely as an administrative agent to enforce the law . |
| 21 | The constant complaint of the British Party against the NUWM was that it had failed to use its influence with employed workers and trade unionists . |
| 22 | The only significant difference that I have observed in the Best Bitter from Newcastle is that it has a much higher level of secondary fermentation in the cellar . |
| 23 | So the surprising feature of Ibstock Johnsen is that it continues to make any money at all . |
| 24 | The error in the phenomenological approach of Berger is that it does not allow him to see that one of the social processes which affects the success of some theories , in terms of their historical effects , is precisely the process of rational discussion and truth-testing which occurs in science . |
| 25 | The first promising thing about the Clarendon Hotel at Chale on the Isle of Wight is that it looks like a charming little English country hotel . |
| 26 | The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species . |
| 27 | A second major defect of UDG was that it did not make much difference to cities as a whole . |
| 28 | The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler . |
| 29 | The main complaint that I have about d'Compress is that it does not use standard DOS key and mouse commands . |
| 30 | We should , however , recollect that one of the reasons for the strength of the City of London is that it has consistently followed a very open policy , which is not always followed on the continent and elsewhere . |