Example sentences of "it [vb -s] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 2 | Even a small park with a few facilities can achieve ***** if what it offers is to an exceptionally high quality standard . |
| 3 | ‘ All it needs is for a journalist to go down to Abbotsfield . ’ |
| 4 | And Carol and Ann are white and all it needs is for one of them to lead the other , censoring friendship , arousing hostility . |
| 5 | Tranmere Rovers verses Swindon Town.Now all it needs is for the Swindon players to hold their nerve and hold on to their two goal advantage . |
| 6 | All it needs is to be made to fit . |
| 7 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |
| 8 | His story as it unfolds is at times scarcely credible when we think back to the way things were in Frome in the 1790s . |
| 9 | The speed it has is for motorway shunting . |
| 10 | The Department of Employment in their Partnership Handbook publication , recommend and increase in the numbers of teachers undertaking secondment into industry as a key performance indicator of partnership activity , as it has been of the TVEI extension programme . |
| 11 | Sir , — It has been of great interest for me to read of small company audits in recent issues , and especially the approaches of other members . |
| 12 | The government-run NORP is still in operation today , however the observation that this programme is not mentioned in much of the post-1985 literature on oral rehydration therapy in Bangladesh , suggests that it has been of limited value to the people of Bangladesh . |
| 13 | At present any member of the public can consult it all day long , all year round , and there is no doubt that it has been of invaluable help not only to scholars but also to the art trade . |
| 14 | Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance . |
| 15 | It has been of considerable economic advantage to both countries . |
| 16 | So it has been with other countries of immigration — the immigrants embraced a new nationality with , if the nationalist fictions are to be believed , unseemly eagerness . |
| 17 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
| 18 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 19 | Before , it has been with blind faith only . |
| 20 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 21 | It has been with us all the year . |
| 22 | Since Ptolemy tried to solve this problem in the second century , it has been on the agenda of theorists of perception and is still , I understand , not fully resolved . |
| 23 | It has been on trial at nine branches and no decision has been made about whether to extend the service . |
| 24 | Also , much of the money for the campaign has come from the community itself , and where outside groups have provided assistance , either financially or otherwise , it has been on the terms of the YCCC rather than anyone else . |
| 25 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 26 | IN MID SEPTEMBER , 28XX class No.3822 returns to the Great Western Society from the West Somerset Railway where it has been on loan since March 19th this year . |
| 27 | Leaf-roll sawfly This clever little beast is given a fair description and discussion in the answer to question number 52 on page 208 , which , with Figure 13 above , will enable you to spot that it has been on your plants . |
| 28 | Although some progress has since been made by the meticulous work of the late Sir Ian Richmond and Roger Goodburn , it has been on too small a scale to support any attempt at a chronology of the history of the site . |
| 29 | Will discussion of reform then be remitted , as it has been on several occasions from 1916 onwards , to a Speaker 's Conference ? |
| 30 | It has been on my conscience ever since . |