Example sentences of "it [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weekly cash wages payment is likely to rule out credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts , The forms of credit which it encourages are those involving weekly instalments : mail order , trading checks , tallymen and weekly credit callers . |
| 2 | In the male , Trichomonas vaginalis usually affects the urethra and the symptoms that it produces are less than those found with gonococcal or other non-gonococcal causes of urethritis . |
| 3 | Attached to this plant and the dye it produces are several beliefs which are especially pertinent to the families of fishermen . |
| 4 | But it is a sign nonetheless , and what it signifies is that Eeyore believes he 's out of thistles : simply because he only sighs ( when the subject 's raised ) when he does believe that . |
| 5 | What it needs is some Herculean stable-cleaning . |
| 6 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 7 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 8 | ‘ It has been such a long time ! |
| 9 | It has been such a success within the company over recent months that JT Design Build are now making it available throughout the construction industry and to the industry 's clients . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |
| 11 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 12 | It has been many years since the proud Fruithill Park outfit languished in the bottom half of the division after only three games , which is the case this season . |
| 13 | However , the British people must be asking where it has been all these years . |
| 14 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 15 | As was noted above , it has been this neglect of the loan period factor ( and consequent confusion between APR and actual money cost of credit ) which has in practice proved an obstacle to Americans using their growing awareness of APRs to shop more discriminatingly for credit . |
| 16 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 17 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 18 | It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre . |
| 19 | It has been more of a blessing than a curse . |
| 20 | It has been another successful season for the two golf clubs operating within Stoddard . |
| 21 | When the algorithm starts with an empty grammar , the only symbols it has are those in the text . |
| 22 | Oh , oh , I think all it wants is that paragraph rephrasing and with more strongly emphasis but , on the lines on with that . |
| 23 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
| 24 | How it happens is another matter , and apparently undecided . |
| 25 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 26 | Well Chairman I 'm grateful for that , that information , what it says is that er , everybody else is just as confused as I am . |
| 27 | Finding it existed was enough of a shock . ’ |
| 28 | The second great European blood-letting produced no such peace movement , and the lessons it taught were those of militarism , not of pacifism . |
| 29 | Shareholders might wonder why the directors built up a holding of 700 properties when all it needed was another 20 properties of the investment calibre of Oldham 's . |
| 30 | All it needed was some heat . |