Example sentences of "it [verb] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intel Corp has found another patent that it thinks is being infringed , and has asked the US International Trade Commission to investigate the import from Taiwan of Twinhead Inc 's Slimnote notebook computers , and put a ban on them . |
| 2 | For three hundred years , until around 1934 , Faversham was a major centre of gunpowder manufacture , and one of the former factories , Chart Mills , was saved from demolition in recent years by the Faversham Society , when the area in which it stands was being cleared for a new housing estate . |
| 3 | It is a great struggle to maintain this kind of mental attitude , but how successful it has been is difficult to assess . |
| 4 | The shattered bodies which had been hurled from it when it exploded were being gathered up on stretchers . |
| 5 | The tone chosen can indicate whether the tone-unit in which it occurs is being used to present new information or to refer to information which is felt to be already possessed by speaker and hearer . |
| 6 | What it means is is things like someone 's got a |
| 7 | But it is certainly er a body which is er recognised as responsible and indeed in er tax law and in various other ways er its promulgations and the standards that it sets are are generally regarded as acceptable but these matters of course are kept under review . |
| 8 | Women make their own minds up about what they want to do , I find , so I left it ; but about a year ago she invited me to a party and indicated that whoever it had been was no longer around . |
| 9 | All it had been was a futile expression of the frustration and anger that bubbled inside her . |
| 10 | The demonstration arranged by the Lesbian and Gay Direct Action Group , OUTRAGE , is to challenge public decency laws which it claims are being misinterpreted to criminalise public shows of affection between gay couples . |
| 11 | so it 's been been tightened up a bit . |
| 12 | It 's been a bit Well it 's it 's been been a bit difficult to test because with the sort of ready the read-me files . |