Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 2 | People born since the 1890s have been unnaturally large because they have eaten too much protein believing it to be essential for growth , says survey author Geoffrey Cannon in New Woman magazine . |
| 3 | The coin caused it to be possible that the bar come out . |
| 4 | The yellow ( red + green ) of the outer part of the streamer shows it to be bright in X-rays . |
| 5 | It was uncomfortable , but the wood kept it from being cold . |
| 6 | ‘ The thought of having the baby without a home to take it to is awful , ’ the 22-year-old mum says . |
| 7 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 8 | This was replaced by Alan Cull , our chief engineer , during the evening at Wick , and a short trial showed it to be satisfactory . |
| 9 | They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron . |
| 10 | Working Paper 2 states : ‘ … even where a service is regarded as one which must be provided locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , if the patient and the GP or DHA as purchaser believe it to be better for them to be treated elsewhere ’ . |
| 11 | In terms of its advisory nature , the remit of the group enables it to be pro-active . |
| 12 | The notion that " one hour 's sleep before midnight is worth two afterwards " has perennially been invoked to put children to bed early ( although only 10 per cent of the survey sample believed it to be true ) . |
| 13 | Measurement of the fusion transcript hybridization signal showed it to be identical to that of the ND1 transcript . |
| 14 | For example , a conglomerate in receipt of inside information from an issuer of publicly traded securities may find itself in a position where actual compliance with its disclosure obligations to its retail customers ( ie. , those who wish to buy shares ) in accordance with the equitable principle of undivided loyalty causes it to be liable in an action for breach of confidence to its corporate clients , and guilty of tipping in violation of anti-insider dealing laws . |
| 15 | He flicked the light on , and the greenish glow reflecting back from the tiled interior showed it to be empty of human occupation . |
| 16 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 17 | The fact that the Government retained executive detention on the statute book by a free act last year is an indication that the Government believe it to be important that the instrument should be available . |
| 18 | I think perhaps my grandmother felt it to be unethical , that 's all . |
| 19 | Yes , well I think we believe that to be true , and certainly I think the Government believes it to be true erm we , People often say that the universities erm do n't erm satisfy the needs of society . |
| 20 | Thus , for example , a provision declaring signed accounts to be binding will not apply in the event that a partner is induced to sign a false account believing it to be true . |
| 21 | A sign by the side of the piste showed it to be Timoken , an unmapped hamlet , though there was no sign of any people . |
| 22 | This dish has a Valencian shape but the crowded design is Malagan ; neutron activation analysis shows it to be Valencian . |
| 23 | Sadly , reality proved it to be false . |
| 24 | If they fail to find work and the Department of Employment considers it to be available , then their benefit would be cut in exactly the same way that men 's benefit is presently reduced or taken away altogether ( DHSS , 1978a , p. 92 ) . |
| 25 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 26 | There were a few suitable towns at which to start but we chose Beni Abbes because the map showed it to be two thousand miles from Kano . |
| 27 | Psychology declares it to be fantastic , irrational and ineffective , and analyses the women 's real psychological state as passive and externally controlled . |
| 28 | The initial results from this implementation show it to be effective in many cases , but rather counter-productive in others . |
| 29 | A previous decision should not be departed from merely because the House considers it to be wrong and only rarely should questions of construction be reconsidered . |