Example sentences of "[prep] it be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 2 | The noise that came with it was heard fifty miles away . |
| 3 | An object with what appeared to be a gun barrel pointing from it was found 30 yards from where Mr Peter Jowett 's body lay . |
| 4 | In it are included graphic re-workings of that Medieval theme by twentieth-century masters such as George Grosz , Otto Dix , Max Beckmann , Kathe Kollwitz and Alfred Kubin . |
| 5 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 6 | In it were tucked all manner of bills , receipts and postcards bearing on the activities of the club . |
| 7 | After twenty minutes , her breakfast tray arrived ; upon it was boiling red soup , chocolate ice cream , and a fizzy orange drink . |
| 8 | And I would like to say thank you to the people who sit on the budget review sub- committee , a committee which actually I do n't attend as often as I probably ought to , particularly to the labour spokesperson , for the way he 's guided the committee , both from within the chair and at other times , on it 's work this year , to be able to propose a budget which erm , so well fulfils the aims that many of us had when we were elected in May , which were of course , to maintain services , er , to squeeze efficiency out of the sy into the system and squeeze any waste out , and to get our officers working towards zero base budgets . |
| 9 | So that is the position as it was agreed last time and this report really says that . |
| 10 | At it 's meeting last November , the Policy Committee did agree to review the overall spending limits in the light of the final revenue Support Claim Settlement . |