Example sentences of "it be [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been disguised to blend into the wall ? |
| 2 | The sparing use of the Practice Statement is confirmed by the statistics : the use of the Statement was made 39 times between 1966 and the end of 1989 , but in only 12 cases has it been applied to overrule a previous decision . |
| 3 | Had it been allowed to thrive , the whole sad subsequent history of Ireland might well have been different but , alas , it was not . |
| 4 | Parliament , had it been required to do so by the European Court of Human Rights , could have made a small , interstitial alteration of the law by , for example , merely amending the relevant section of the Birth and Death Registration Act 1953 ; or used the opportunity to undertake a wholesale revision of the law as it affects transsexuals . |
| 5 | The other humans around it are trying to explain to it what a planet is . ’ |
| 6 | The rink 's owners say it simply is n't making money — the clubs that use it are trying to form a consortium to keep it open . |
| 7 | The paper quotes Microsoft officials saying that the 130 to 140 developers working on it are trying to develop an operating system that will provide a consistent means of accessing information with seamless integration of everyday tasks . |
| 8 | The chariot is itemised as wheels , car , people standing in car ; but the two horses that draw it are allowed to overlap , so shown as one body with two necks and heads and eight legs . |
| 9 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 10 | The two people who found it are expected to receive the value of the brooch but it 's a very well preserved skull , I suppose it was all in mud an |
| 11 | Cheap swimming goggles fit Whopperbears but do n't let it be tempted to go sub-aqua ! |
| 12 | Why should it be seeking to deprive children of a first-class education ? |
| 13 | But never let it be exploited to curb an individual 's right , in freedom , not to believe . |
| 14 | What problems do they present for the Sinclair and Coulthard coding system and how could it be adjusted to cope with them ? |
| 15 | Should it be desired to alter this state of affairs , there would be many who would assert that the change could not be made without the consent of the part of the United Kingdom affected , however it were to be expressed . |
| 16 | And will it be timed to coincide with the upper house election due this summer ? |
| 17 | Even if the possession of essential components was crucial to man , which it is not , would it be justified to say that an animal which does not have these components could not feel pain ? |
| 18 | Can it be justified to send to prison people too poor to pay fines — and there are more such persons during times of economic crisis — not only when the original crime of which they were convicted did not warrant a prison sentence , but when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crimes which we lack the political will to tackle directly by socialist remedies ? |
| 19 | How can it be made to do what it will not do ? |
| 20 | Should it be required to do so in a democratic way ? |
| 21 | Predation by man on the bigger fish should , in theory , leave more small fish for the birds , but sadly , ‘ industrial ’ fishing for even the smallest and immature fish is a fact of life which has serious implications for the very existence of our sea-bird communities should it be allowed to go on unchecked . |
| 22 | Now that all the poll tax register computer equipment is installed , there is a strong case to let it be used to compile the electoral roll on the same basis . |
| 23 | Nor can it be used to quantify fully the number of temporary jobs in the economy . |
| 24 | Nor should it be used to protect one private interest against another . |
| 25 | These substances would be in small amounts in any but polluted waters , and analytical methods would have to be suited to the objective if it were desired to distinguish between them . |
| 26 | If it were decided to impose a breakeven constraint , and assuming that there is more than one product price involved , the target may be achieved in many ways . |
| 27 | If it were decided to increase greatly the provision of group care in day nurseries , then a big investment would have to be made in buildings and staff training . |
| 28 | THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it . |
| 29 | There were crescents under his eyes like bruises , and his jaw jutted out as though it were trying to overtake his nose . |
| 30 | When you ca n't do something you know , you might actually kind of , your whole body kind of starts to , and that would be the ego as it were trying to express this , this er drive from the id . |