Example sentences of "[adv] it be [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge leap forward had taken place in the eighties when he had used junk bonds to enlarge his empire at a fantastic pace — until suddenly it was realized in the States that Hauser controlled the largest private financial institution in the republic . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is exemplified by the very fact that there is a Microsoft Upgrade Centre in the UK , whose job it is to make it easier for the end user to upgrade to the latest release of any product . |
| 3 | My memory of the occasion is rather vague otherwise perhaps it was obliterated by the fear I felt . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was caused by the complicated influences of the valley where the men seemed so often to remain unmarried , sometimes perhaps because , as Beuno held , their mothers said there was no one good enough for them , sometimes because there simply was n't anyone . |
| 5 | This means we can work out how a given circle might have been produced or drawn : perhaps it was traced by the movement of one end of a rigid rod whose other end was fixed , perhaps by a weight whirled round on string . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was attached to the great Frankish emperor originally , for one variant of the tale names the sleeping king as ‘ Charles ’ . |
| 7 | So it is cut to the finest as far as the females are concerned . |
| 8 | Moreover I have given order that they who collect my dues take from you no more than the tenth , because so it is appointed by the custom of the Moors , and it is what ye have been wont to pay . |
| 9 | So it was developed by the ladies of the day for the men to do their work and they developed their special patterns like Arran stitches , which I 'm going to show you now , like Fair Isle stitches . |
| 10 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 11 | so it was left to the hardy annual of the clash of dates , although I for one never fully believed this to be a valid argument . |
| 12 | Soon it must have become obvious to the story-tellers that such a huge land could no longer be fitted into the Mediterranean , and so it was resited beyond the Gates of Hercules . |
| 13 | So it was considered by the staff that the best solution would be to close the school for the afternoon . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it is used as the unit of account not only by the IMF but also by a number of international organizations of modest importance , e.g. Arab Monetary Fund , Economic Community of West African States , Nordic Investment Bank . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it was used in the early aeroplanes and an attempt was made to protect it by binding the joints with varnished tape which was never very effectual . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it was brought before the House , Baldwin came down , spoke movingly of ‘ our young King and Queen ’ who were about to ‘ dedicate themselves to the service of their people ’ , and pulled out , gently and without tension , all his old stops about industrial peace , democracy and the avoidance of strife . |
| 17 | Jezrael felt full of sorrow but soon it was eclipsed by the memory of dancing with Maggie , giggling like kids when their picture-harmonics clashed . |
| 18 | And they said unto him , ‘ In Bethlehem of Judea , for thus it is written by the prophet . ’ |
| 19 | A judge or judges may reach a decision for a variety of reasons but the judgment must be presented in a form that is acceptable to the legal profession and thus it is cast in the form of a discussion of previous similar cases and relevant statutes . |
| 20 | Finally it was put to the vote , and while I can not recall the actual figures it was something like forty in favour of the UK proposal , about thirty abstentions and just one ( Bulgaria ! ) against . |
| 21 | Finally it was taken into the adjoining paint shop where the painting was done by hand , a laborious task . |
| 22 | Some comms packages incorporate it in software but usually it 's found in the modem itself . |
| 23 | Usually it is done during the summer , certainly for my better clothes . |
| 24 | In those days it was a pro-Labour paper and once it was owned by the TUC . |
| 25 | Possibly it was dismissed as the work of an eccentric ; and just as Henry Eliot received no reply , I have no doubt that Eliot himself remained in ignorance of its existence , unless Theresa later mentioned it to him . |
| 26 | Later it was owned by the late John Bourne , a lord of Louth Manor , but it was auctioned after his death in the early 1980's . |
| 27 | Five years later it was modified as the Trionic Attak , and some boots were given a ‘ sprung ’ , or slightly curved sole — a simple device that makes for far easier walking , first used in Brasher Boots . |
| 28 | The property in Halling then came into the family of Melford , later it was sold to the family of Raynwell , who held it until the reign of Henry VII , when it passed through several hands among them , Whornes and Levesons , Barber , Golding , Wood and then to W. Baker . |
| 29 | now it is worn on the third finger of the left hand where a vein of love was believed to run straight to the heart . |
| 30 | Now it is filled with the cacophony of coppersmiths . |