Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why it failed to be a British launching pad for Continental-style progress in traffic calming is an issue well worth investigating . |
| 2 | Dornier , the German company which built ROSAT , is trying to cover how it failed after being hit by high-energy particles from a solar flare . |
| 3 | It 'appens to be private . ’ |
| 4 | Nor is it proving to be . |
| 5 | It did not set out to be radically different , though Haydn 's colourful scoring was certainly enhanced by the use of period instruments ( including a fortepiano in the recitatives and a bass line reinforced more consistently by bass trombone and contra bassoon ) , but it succeeded in being unforced and unfettered . |
| 6 | It got to be a bloody bind . |
| 7 | It got to be hard to handle , so she bought herself a small file box and some packages of 2 × 3 cards . |
| 8 | It got to be such a strain , though . |
| 9 | It 's a question of safety , it got to be |
| 10 | Er ploughmen and horsemen were the elite of farm workers and the sons would could only aspire to do what they did and And er eventually I suspect it got to be a little more organized and er they had these little games of of ploughing matches , maybe in a rudimentary farm to begin with , but it eventually came to be as we see it today , over a long period of time . |
| 11 | The DC then changes state to ACTIVE , thus allowing the modules to which it refers to be updated , using the package through which the DC has been activated . |
| 12 | Whatever the merits of this argument , what it points to is the way in which the complexities of these tensions found their focus in the questions of sexuality . |
| 13 | Worried that his brother might be close to a nervous collapse , he refrained from spelling it out bluntly , but what it amounted to was this : Do n't kick the bourgeois while they are still feeding you . |
| 14 | He used a lot of abstruse terms like " cricoid " but what it amounted to was that she had been strangled . |
| 15 | Herod Antipas , tetrarch ( a title for a ruler who was not considered important enough to have the rank of king ; again it amounted to being a ‘ governor ’ ) of Galilee . |
| 16 | Well , yes , I think there 's a recent report of a rape erm I think if you 're saying well , you know , a rape is a very , very serious incident of sexual harassment , that 's not to be denied , and I think it goes beyond being sexual harassment . |
| 17 | The situations encountered during an MAS engagement are too varied for that ever to be possible , nor is it intended to be a substitute for discussion within the network . |
| 18 | Nor is it intended to be any kind of technological treatise . |
| 19 | It is still in its infancy and not as abstract as it aspires to be . ’ |
| 20 | In this sense it aspires to being context-free . |
| 21 | Novell also has a problem in Rothstein 's eyes : ‘ what does it want to be when it grows up ? |
| 22 | er does it want to be |
| 23 | It became to be regarded as one of the finest printers in Europe and , as such , flourished until the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | The leasor 's father " … in his life tyme , did say that the making of a quintall of Copper did then stand but in 17s or 18s , and but of late years 25s , and yet ( in the present time ) it seemeth to be rated sometimes at 32s a Quintall , and now very lately charged with an encrease of 1s of every Quintall … |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ Lady Wardley said , ‘ whoever it belongs to is a trespasser . |
| 26 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 27 | Apologists for the House of Lords argue that it ceased to be the exclusive preserve of the upper classes with the creation of Life Peerages in 1958 . |
| 28 | Heretics posed a more serious problem , but , happily , after the elimination of the aggressively Arian Vandal kingdom in North Africa , and the conversion of the Arian Goths and Burgundians to Catholicism , it ceased to be a pressing practical one . |
| 29 | Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether . |
| 30 | This usually put Dad to rights but must have been pretty potent stuff as it ceased to be available after the war . |