Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Has it been thought necessary to make any special provision to protect the position of those minorities ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Word pairs on this list are given a ’ validity score ’ of 1 , and those not on it are given 0 . |
| 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 | The patient is then far more likely to respond favourably to the proposal than if the reasons for it are left vague . |
| 9 | But it was too sweet , Léonie thought : how could it be called dying , most intensively living more like . |
| 10 | " Let it be decided this way , " she said to her father . |
| 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 | Why might it be claimed that of all the criticisms of the CAPM , only that of Roll constitutes a serious theoretical attack ? |
| 21 | The past with all its mistakes , tragedies and consequences , can not be wiped out , nor can it be put right . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When Drexel 's former equity head , Arthur Kirsch , let it be known last spring that Drexel 's entire American-equity department might be had as a going concern , BZW did not pause to carry out market research on the venture . |
| 24 | Only then can it be deemed unnecessary and removed . |
| 25 | I 'd rather it were kept quiet if any more do . |
| 26 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 27 | In it were tucked all manner of bills , receipts and postcards bearing on the activities of the club . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . " |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |