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Example sentences of "it 's [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1	The schemes now are paid a pension at fifty , but the only , the only snag I understand is it is n't inflation , inflation proofed until fifty-five , but people are drawing their pensions and they get their lump sums at fifty and it 's enhanced to take into account the actual and expected earnings for the next three years , so er you take thirty thousand people , one point seven billion can soon erm
2	That , you see that privet , that 's not the end of his garden because it 's foreshortened .
3	I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way .
4	Okay the video 's called Electric Ecology it was actually produced by er the Cen er Central Electricity Generating Board which does n't actually now exist it 's become the National Power and Nuclear Electric has n't it ?
5	And yet , gradually the reputation has gone down , it 's become an area in which erm basically people who have n't been able to get housing .
6	By the time it 's become cocoa powder or chocolate , it 's sixteen percent tariff on it .
7	the local council , who , who , I wo , I call it used me but not in er whatsit sense , er it 's helped , you know it 's , it 's helped them and er whatever , it 's become well-known if I might say so , in locks , I 'll go to Dick
8	It 's become one of the most famous brands in the world .
9	Well it 's become much more elaborate and sophisticated and er dare I say , expensive ?
10	Now that it 's become a summer time exercise it 's er good for the tourist you know ?
11	I 've argued that for twenty years , now suddenly overnight it 's become unfashionable and let's make it clear why it 's become unfashionable .
12	I 've argued that for twenty years , now suddenly overnight it 's become unfashionable and let's make it clear why it 's become unfashionable .
13	It 's become unfashionable because the media is now looking at an alternative scapegoat for the problems the Conservative Party , that 's why it 's a reason and what is arising from the Labour leadership at the moment is purely an attempt to placate the media .
14	In the mid eighties we invested our members money in a National Education Centre , and now ten years later it 's become a Conference Centre and a hotel and we 're not fully booked , can be used for training the stewards , along with the occasional Regional Council meeting for the Lancashire Region .
15	And in a way it 's become easier as the times this might sound funny as the times gone on .
16	I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it .
17	and it 's become of the exchange of , of , of talk and of media erm but what else do we say about language register and vocabulary ?
18	Er , I 've now added the research approval form and it 's become a related document here but in the original allocation of forms , the responsibility for keeping this up to date was not mine .
19	I wo n't beat about the bush about creeping privatisation because in it 's become a stampede .
20	This council needs to take seriously crime prevention and crime detection and most of all fear of crime , and that 's why it 's become part of the policy committee 's concern , and I think that 's with the police committee 's agreement , for years they 've been trying to tell us to get involved in crime prevention , and from next year we 're going to do that .
21	Well Yvonne went into the private to get er a sister 's post and sh but she knew she was gon na do her midwifery , so she knew she was n't gon na stay there but when she went it 's become when she does her midwifery for the sister 's post , ah but she 's got experience has n't she when she 's
22	It 's become a Nottinghamshire 's favourite now .
23	You know , that word love it 's become so devalued has n't it ?
24	It 's also clear that the teacher population has erm improved in the sense that it 's become much less mobile .
25	It 's become apparent that had the plane been a few feet higher it would have hill .
26	And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law .
27	Now that I 'm a teetotaller it 's become even harder .
28	But I do n't , not only that Marg , I mean , it 's become like a , but the only thing I do object to is these people marching about , and they do n't want to help pay for their children 's
29	It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun .
30	And in fact it 's grown to twenty areas in the intervening thirty odd years , so that 's not bad emp empire building really is it ? thought it might have been one hundred and forty eight by now but it 's not .