Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it been rewired and is the plumbing new ? |
| 2 | Had it been enraged and indignant , it could have been Conan Doyle 's . |
| 3 | Although a sequential file using a record storage format in which keys are separate from data can also skip records , every key has to be checked so every track has to be traversed , whether any records on it are required or not . |
| 4 | Should it be lost or damaged , it can be regenerated quickly . |
| 5 | How would it be monitored and regulated to ensure that those who cheated were penalized ? |
| 6 | The disease model simply asks why child abuse occurs and how can it be prevented or reduced . |
| 7 | While Shatov expounds and disputes ardently , and incidentally takes a lot of good- and God-focused material off the shoulders of the notebook Stavrogin ( ‘ ‘ Shatov must be tied up before you can argue with him , ' ’ Stepan Verkhovensky sometimes joked' ) , only to Kirillov can it be said and is it said , ‘ you have n't swallowed an idea , but an idea has swallowed you ’ — to which he responds delightedly with ‘ That 's good . |
| 8 | On the one hand , there is the precedential weight of a case cited ; in other words , can it be overruled and by whom ? |
| 9 | Presumably I 'll have to transfer them to a separate tank first , but should it be planted or bare ? |
| 10 | It was no part of Owen 's plan to let his whole company lurk there , now that they were compromised ; in case of close inquiry that would have been all too clear an indication of Llewelyn 's unofficial complicity in the enterprise , and however little doubt Isambard himself might have on that head , it would not do to let it be established and admitted . |
| 11 | Mr French says it 's also up buyers at car boot sales to watch out for so called bargains : if something is unbelievably cheap ask yourself : Could it it be stolen or counterfeit ? |
| 12 | If it is unfair , how should it be changed and why ? |
| 13 | Feminists resist the idea that the masculine/feminine opposition is natural , because only if it is cultural can it be criticised and changed ; but in the meantime it would be foolish to underestimate the real effects of pervasive cultural beliefs . |
| 14 | First , you could find someone who is interested in taking the building on should it be sold or ultimately come to compulsory purchase . |
| 15 | This concern should focus first on understanding ‘ how it is possible ’ for corporate crime to be endemic in our ‘ law and order ’ society , and second , and hopefully flowing from this understanding , ‘ how can it be contained or regulated ? ’ |
| 16 | Can it be avoided or modified ? |
| 17 | And it were a-raining and a-raining ! |
| 18 | An agency such as the hon. Gentleman suggests would do little more than we are already doing unless it were funded and empowered to make grants and loans which , as he will realise , is not a practical suggestion , because it would mean singling out a particular sector of British industry . |
| 19 | Can I ask would that seriously if it were limited or by virtue of the panel report having identified this problem we reported that we saw a problem if it included B eight , would that be a problem from the point of view either Harrogate or Selby if B eight was in effect , if not in the policy itself , excluded ? |
| 20 | This was called in East Anglia jading a horse ; and it was from this practice more than any other that the horsemen sometimes earned the name of horse-witches because they were able to make the horse stand as though it were paralysed or bewitched . |
| 21 | I 'm not saying it 's one that the tribunal should have accepted , but , but , but what I 'm saying is th there is an element of psychological truth in that , because if Freud 's theories if er bond Freud theory group behaviour is correct , then that does seem to happen some extent that the leader as it were takes and presumably this is why some people erm presumably er feel better in groups , perhaps that they get something out of a group that their own ego can not provide , but other people are uncomfortable in groups because they feel that their ego is being alienated and they 're losing some of their some of their power . |
| 22 | However , they could not guarantee to replace it if it were damaged or vandalised . |
| 23 | Never could they securely hold the Rhine until the Frisians at the lower end of it and the Saxons across it were tamed and Christianized . |
| 24 | But I says , that they were , I , that he were n't satisfied when it were vibrating and that . |
| 25 | One such exception concerns circumstances where a particular person does not have close relatives , where there seems to be an expectation that kin in the outer circle should give more support than they otherwise might , as it were deputizing or substituting for the non-existent children or parents . |
| 26 | All the items in it were removed and given a thorough overhaul by the Restoration Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum . |
| 27 | Her feelings about it were discussed and in particular her sense of failure and bitterness towards him . |
| 28 | Amidst these grand claims for the ‘ effects ’ of writing , Olson suppresses the qualification cited above that ‘ whether meaning can be made explicit in text is perhaps less critical than the belief that it can ’ and proceeds as though it were agreed and verifiable that writing can and does have such effects because of its intrinsic qualities . |
| 29 | very old , see I said , there one in antique shop exactly like that , but I said , but it were cracked and they wanted twenty six pound for it . |
| 30 | Probably such a combined order was only appropriate where all the parties agreed to it being made and to the conditions . |