Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOT for almost five years has it been thought necessary to preview a meeting of the General Committee of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club but today , at 5.30pm at Headingley , the 22 members will gather knowing that once again they wil be under intense scrutiny by the media . |
| 2 | Has it been thought necessary to make any special provision to protect the position of those minorities ? |
| 3 | The Bank 's initial forecast and the factors behind it are made available at 9.45 a.m. each day , but revisions to the overall shortage may be made during the course of the day , typically being announced at noon and 2 p.m . |
| 4 | The pitfalls and dangers that knowledge brings with it are becoming apparent . |
| 5 | If the rate of crime increases when the adverse social conditions which have been linked to it are becoming ameliorated , the answer must lie elsewhere : either in the failure of the criminal justice system to deliver sanctions with sufficient certainty or positiveness ( the ‘ New Right ’ analysis ) , or in changes in the availability of criminal opportunities in the environment ( administrative criminology ) . |
| 6 | If some of those who proposed it are proved right in several years ' time , I hope that I will admit as much , but I have grave doubts nevertheless , and they are shared by a large number of heavyweight people in the Scottish universities . |
| 7 | In it are included graphic re-workings of that Medieval theme by twentieth-century masters such as George Grosz , Otto Dix , Max Beckmann , Kathe Kollwitz and Alfred Kubin . |
| 8 | They are interested in why they are paying such a high price for a service and why the company or companies providing it are making enormous profits when they are in a protected monopoly . |
| 9 | The patient is then far more likely to respond favourably to the proposal than if the reasons for it are left vague . |
| 10 | But it was too sweet , Léonie thought : how could it be called dying , most intensively living more like . |
| 11 | The killing caused a storm of protest and an emergency meeting was held to demand it be made safe . |
| 12 | Finally , the farmhouse : can it be made comfortable ? |
| 13 | May it be made clear for the record that my hon. Friend the Member for Redcar ( Ms. Mowlam ) , who is a junior Front-Bench spokesman , wrote to the Secretary of State this week asking for an inquiry ? |
| 14 | Could it be made longitudinal ? |
| 15 | I 'm not sure No I 'm not sure I agree with that because I mean area goes right up to Birmingham from the south and it be made multi-regional , multi-locational accounts within Southern England and London which are big accounts |
| 16 | Should it be shown gross or net of taxation ? |
| 17 | ( A man 's reaction about small type would have been to point to the scale and demand it be paid extra ! ) |
| 18 | All parts of the body were then to be carefully washed in spirits of wine before proceeding to the third stage , which consisted in the injection of the body a second time — his system being an amalgam of that advocated by Robert Boyle and Ruysch — and the viscera , should it be considered necessary . |
| 19 | Would it be considered permissible in the circumstances ? |
| 20 | The past with all its mistakes , tragedies and consequences , can not be wiped out , nor can it be put right . |
| 21 | It is thus both a ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can it be put right ? ’ and a ‘ Which way should they go now ? ’ case . |
| 22 | Only then can it be deemed unnecessary and removed . |
| 23 | I 'd rather it were kept quiet if any more do . |
| 24 | Now erm this is this is archetypical group behaviour , but whatever it is , it can not necessarily reflect erm that individual 's own erm peculiar self as it were using peculiar in the in the strict sense and proper to them , because as we 've seen what happens in a group is , is , is the individual . |
| 25 | This cliff already has an aid climb , The Lid , which , if it were to go free would be very hard indeed . |
| 26 | It could n't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs . |
| 27 | If it were made good , it would go a long way towards providing a justification for denying English the place in our educational system which we demand for it . |
| 28 | All night he had laboured in prayer and watching , then rising and sitting in his chair , as it were made new for the occasion , which had been placed before the chimney in his parlour , and in the midst of his chaplains , servants and officers who were praying for him , he expired as if sleeping , and without a groan yielded up his spirit most purely to his Creator . " |
| 29 | What is certainly on record , however , is de Lattre 's ineffable assurance to Acheson that ‘ If it were made possible to carry out his present military plans and if there were no Chinese military intervention the Vietminh could be eliminated as a fighting force in a period of between one and two years . ’ |
| 30 | The Company already had powers to provide electric lighting throughout the Sutton and Cheam districts and to it were made available the powers conferred by the Mitcham Light Railway Order and the Croydon & District Tramways Acts of 1902 and 1903 . |