Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [is] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives are investigating a burglary at the Treasury , in which it is believed secret papers may have been photographed and proofs of potentially valuable coins taken .. |
| 2 | These questions must be addressed , even if they can not be precisely answered ; simply raising them has an effect on the way old people are viewed and the action which it is deemed appropriate to take . |
| 3 | One of the major distinctions between the different approaches to language description already discussed concerns the extent to which it is deemed appropriate to regard language behaviour as being a reflection of an underlying knowledge base . |
| 4 | What is more difficult to predict into the middle of the next century is the proportion of the total population that this older group will constitute , because that depends upon the birth-rate , and the latter , if past experience is anything to go on , shifts unpredictably with transient social circumstances — such as the level of unemployment or whether or not there is a war — as well as with unstable social attitudes to child-bearing and the age at which it is thought suitable for women to bear children . |
| 5 | As Michael Goldman ( 1975 ) suggests , fashions in acting can be seen in terms of the varying degrees to which it is thought proper to expose the private feeling of the actor . |