Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] be [verb] and " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If you are playing Dwarf Wars , for example , the adventurers might reach Hargrim 's tomb only to find that it has been defiled and looted . |
| 2 | The first statement remains intact in its vagueness and generality , but the casual reader might assume from the wealth of clauses and subordinate clauses that it has been argued and proved . |
| 3 | Novell Inc has finally produced the big restructuring that it has been planning and ( sort of ) denying for so long and which led to the departure of Tony Scrivens as UK managing director . |
| 4 | ‘ All I can say is that it has been tried and tested over many years . |
| 5 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 6 | You also have , I 'm gon na set up a sub-committee called the Form sub-committee to meet after Christmas er , to review this work , once it 's been done and decide what to do with the , all the other forms that are n't versions . |
| 7 | Erm and it 's been accepted and endorsed by three conferences , right ? |
| 8 | This guidebook was first published in 1959 , and it has been revised and reprinted several times since , the present copy being a revised impression of the 1981 edition . |
| 9 | Especially if it 's been loosened and clobbered . |
| 10 | Cos if it 's been advertised and they have n't put in a claim the executors are safe to distribute the estate . |
| 11 | It 's something to do with gentlemanliness and the idea of the English gentleman , which has become a very influential one , not just in Britain , but it 's been admired and copied in many other countries and this is an historical product . |
| 12 | While it has been refined and improved in several respects , this departmental system of budgeting is still the main tool of financial management on the vast majority of NHS hospital sites . |
| 13 | It is simmered slowly after it has been soaked and is usually coated with breadcrumbs before it is sold . |
| 14 | But whether , say , used office paper has an economic value may depend on whether it has been collected and sorted . |
| 15 | Somehow , the châteaux owners have been able to persuade us that it is in our interest to pay for the wine before it has been bottled and to finance its cellar maturation , which in the case of the better wines takes from ten to fifteen or even twenty years . |
| 16 | This apart , a judge may always consider or vary any decision before " the Order has been perfected " , meaning before it has been sealed and sent out ; he may have to give further opportunity to be heard , if he is going to make a change , see Note to Ord 5 , r 5 . |
| 17 | It smells different when it 's been raining and our clothes are wet . |
| 18 | The supreme example of spiny defence is shown by the porcupine fish , a small inflatable creature that can puff itself up into a prickly sphere , either with an intake of water when under the surface , or with air when it has been caught and removed from the sea . |
| 19 | That the pretended power of dispensing with lawes or the Execution of lawes by regall authority as it has been assumed and exercised of late is illegall . |
| 20 | The first two clauses asserted the illegality of the suspending power and the dispensing power " as it has been assumed and exercised of late " , when used without the consent of Parliament . |