Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves being alert to particular developments in the situation for which campaigning action is required . |
| 2 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 3 | When a person is seeking employment , council membership and the demands it imposes are unlikely to recommend him or her to prospective employers . |
| 4 | Erm it can set its parameters to what it thinks is suitable then . |
| 5 | it thinks are appropriate . |
| 6 | Reproduction is excellent and the value for money it offers is phenomenal . |
| 7 | The grapes it produced were small and hard , inedible . |
| 8 | The difference it made was internal . |
| 9 | OK , it 's maybe a little quiet , but there are ways of getting around that if you are a strong player , but I felt that the atmosphere which it created was unique . |
| 10 | The odds against it happening are astronomical , but if it does , then so are the winnings . |
| 11 | Sir , when did it stopped being compulsory for you to have a tetanus jab ? |
| 12 | It was n't intended as a writing implement , and the shapes it drew were angular and hard to read . |
| 13 | In the case of the pattern in Figure 1 , the first colour it encounters is black , so this becomes colour 1 . |
| 14 | Damage is recoverable provided the type of damage and the way it occurred were predictable . |
| 15 | They are free to be energetic and enterprising ; they are equally free to be lethargic and dilatory ; the self-respect of the voluntary group depends on the fact that any success it has is due to its own efforts . |
| 16 | Not that perspective — which denotes visual orderliness — is the right word , since the decisive characteristic of the 100-mile city is that whatever order it has is invisible . |
| 17 | It has been traditional for the theoretical chemists to run series of seminars additional to those in Physical Chemistry , and it is expected that the Coulson Professor will wish to continue this . |
| 18 | Johnson 's work merits this special position both because it has been influential in this country — Bankowski and Mungham ( 1976 ) use it , for example , and it routinely appears on ‘ English Legal System ’ booklists — and also because he explicitly takes issue with ideologically determined empiricist and common sense definitions of professionals in terms of the ‘ traits ’ which they possess . |
| 19 | During the progress of the bill so far ( not much and currently stalled ) it has been instructive to note the number of occasions on which the Government has not tried to force the pace beyond 10pm . |
| 20 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 21 | So it has been subject to recent rigorous scrutiny by a series of government reports : the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , the House of Commons Social Services Committee Report ( 1985 ) and the Griffiths Report ( 1986 ) which resulted in the 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 22 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 23 | For more than a decade there has been an inverse relationship between government policy on public expenditure and that on education ; it has been low on funding and high on educational aspiration and expectation . |
| 24 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 25 | Although the fish are feeding , it has been spasmodic which could mean there is a pike in the swim . |
| 26 | Perhaps that role for the Scottish TUCC is being rejected because on many occasions it has been reactive rather than taking the initiative . |
| 27 | It has been rare for shareholders to raise concerns with company boards on audit matters , probably because they are not well-informed and because their priorities are elsewhere . |
| 28 | In some , e.g. , the United Kingdom and France , judges are permitted to attend ( pursuant either to a declaration under the Convention or other procedures ) but it has been rare for them to do so and they could normally only ask questions with the leave of the court . |
| 29 | For the past nine months it has been involved in a nightly Royal Mail operation out of the airport . |
| 30 | ‘ That act was devised by men , and men choose to pretend it has been effective . |