Example sentences of "it be [adv] [vb pp] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look it 's not cooked is it ? |
| 2 | and the first column , although it 's not headed is , presumably actual expenditure , would that be right ? |
| 3 | Well it 's part of the reason that er it 's not celebrated is that because it is n't a holiday . |
| 4 | Well it 's not encouraged is it , because they 're still told to ring the divisional telephone number |
| 5 | I think a failure , if it 's carefully manipulated is as good as very formal didactic teaching . |
| 6 | and people like that , but er , I believe that the , the way it 's actually organized is different . |
| 7 | So it 's spiritually interpreted is n't it ? |
| 8 | … the paradigm of development as it is generally understood is not suited to explaining change in mature organisms . |
| 9 | Whether it is thereby improved is , of course , a matter of opinion . |
| 10 | A school that can show parents that it is well resourced is at a tremendous advantage . |
| 11 | Likewise , further development of Open Look as it is presently constituted is being discontinued , although there will be a new release in the Autumn incorporating the COSE specifications and X-Windows X11R5 . |
| 12 | And most important of all and it is often forgotten is that in South Africa the regime and the western powers were facing a real hot revolution and that hot revolution could have destroyed the country for all its people . |
| 13 | It is at times suggested that the security forces are operating under a series of shackles , which it is sometimes suggested are of a political nature . |
| 14 | But the petty snobbery and priggishness of which it is sometimes accused are in my view much less serious ( and in any case demonstrably declining ) than are two tendencies : the first , to make the curriculum and the public examination system a closed circuit ; the second , to be increasingly concerned with training — in other words , to think of its pupil-product more and more as an instrument rather than as an end . |
| 15 | It seems to me that E two as it is currently drafted is a great deal less comprehensive than P P G seven and a great deal more restrictive , possibly as a consequence of being less comprehensive . |
| 16 | That Farriery as it is commonly practised is conducted without principle or science , and greatly to the injury of the noblest and most useful of our animals . |
| 17 | ‘ The fact that it was eventually reinstated was not the point , ’ said Davies . |
| 18 | Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help when it was finally arranged was not enough . |
| 19 | The charge or poll tax as it was commonly called was abolished as from 31 March 1993 . |
| 20 | How much of this savage attack was for Theo 's ears only and how much of it was actually voiced is not clear . |
| 21 | Well it was so said was n't it . |
| 22 | The idea of the longue durée , as it was originally formulated was quite straightforward . |
| 23 | Even more striking is the provision that if such a tenement is not alienated , but the alms for which it was originally given are neglected over a period of two years , then the property shall again be recoverable at law by the donor or his heirs . |