Example sentences of "it be [verb] and " 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 | How would it be monitored and regulated to ensure that those who cheated were penalized ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On the one hand , there is the precedential weight of a case cited ; in other words , can it be overruled and by whom ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If it is unfair , how should it be changed and why ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And it were a-raining and a-raining ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But I says , that they were , I , that he were n't satisfied when it were vibrating and that . |
| 14 | All the items in it were removed and given a thorough overhaul by the Restoration Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum . |
| 15 | Her feelings about it were discussed and in particular her sense of failure and bitterness towards him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Probably such a combined order was only appropriate where all the parties agreed to it being made and to the conditions . |
| 19 | Very cheap , but actually watch it being made and then that becomes the freebie . |
| 20 | Recently , SAVE has been to the rescue of a small but delightful Methodist chapel in a Lincolnshire village , to stop it being dismantled and shipped to the USA ; the Pavilion Theatre at Ryde on the Isle of Wight , which the local council had agreed to demolish ; and a popular Hampstead pub , Jack Straw 's Castle , which , though an important work by the architect Raymond Erith , the brewers wished to alter radically . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's rising and rising fast , ’ Bryce muttered . |
| 22 | Oh it 's wobbling and wobbling and wobbling |
| 23 | That is , it lives from the time it 's conceived and created , for some fifty or sixty years , it varies , and then the work dies . |
| 24 | It 's to participate and support anything that encourages charities to strive for the highest standards . |
| 25 | I 've got , I feel as if it 's getting and I do n't know if it 's erm to be |
| 26 | It 's isolated and little used , but conveniently near to allied headquarters . |
| 27 | Well , the best thing about the course is , I think , that you get an all-round view of how it 's arranged and the time aspect of the information flow — that it takes a long time for information to reach the books and compendia etc . |
| 28 | It 's only odd days , it 's it 's perhaps lovely there in the winter when it 's snowing and things |
| 29 | It 's raining and shining on a high-rise tower , |
| 30 | For example , is the utterance ‘ It 's raining and we 'll get wet ’ an example of reporting and recognising related aspects of experience , or is it an example of recognising causal relationships under logical reasoning ? |