Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [be] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The only sign that anyone had ever occupied it was the flattened grass beneath the tree , where her blanket had been .
2 I 'd forgotten it was an away game . ’
3 Originally a mere footpath through fields , Charles II had decided it was a better route to Hampton Court than one to the North , through the village of Knightsbridge .
4 Not an easy tongue to master at such short notice , but she had always felt it was a basic courtesy for a tourist to make some attempt , however feeble , to communicate in the tongue of the host country .
5 When it was built it was a significant addition to the city 's houses as it heralded the start of the restructuring that saw the completion of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II .
6 Once the A-CONFORMOLINES and E-VALUES data have been prepared it is a simple matter to use different electives in the F-MAP package in order to alter particular settings , such as the number of shading levels , the choice of class interval ( equal width , equal number of zones or user-specified ) , or the type of symbolism used to define the shading pattern .
7 Having said it 's a new area , self-management itself is not new to the Horton is it ?
8 ‘ I 've said it 's the wrong time of the year for that .
9 Besides , Adam had said it was a long detour to get back on to the main road , if this lane was cut off .
10 He 'd said it was a natural voice , one that did n't have to be nursed or conserved or constantly disciplined .
11 After a selection has been made it is a useful exercise to spell out — to oneself as much as to others — why that selection has been made .
12 But their parents had obviously thought it was a suitable area .
13 Well I would n't have thought it was a one-one function .
14 I would have thought it was a regular occurrence .
15 Someone must have thought it was a bright idea , though .
16 Indeed , he opposed rigid grounding in English grammar and urged that Latin be taught by the direct method , as it would have been had it been a living language .
17 Er she 'd held the girl in conversation at Mansfield er for quite a while and she 's listened to the tape and she 's convinced it 's the same girl .
18 not a tickly cough she 's got it 's a chesty cough .
19 I 'm told it 's a splendid building . ’
20 We 're told it 's a low-cost desktop with a built-in PCI bus .
21 I own a 1979 Range Rover , chassis number 35857365F , and have been told it is a right hand drive export model .
22 ‘ I am told it is a different skill .
23 She will be pilloried for making this record , she will be told it is an ill-advised change of musical direction , foolish to do yet more cover versions when she has not established herself as a songwriter , madness to be so outspoken , dubbed Mrs Bonkers of Ireland — by people she cared little about .
24 And I mean , we were told it was a first class area but there 's , if anybody walked into the building just now you would nah see it was a first class area to look at the state the building 's in !
25 Brought together again for the conference , which starts in december , most are agreed it 's a good idea .
26 On the amendment side I am reluctant it does infringe on a local democracy but I agree with the Liberal Democrats , it 's a way forward and it 's a responsibility of all of us I I agree with Roger when he mentioned that Professor mentioned that this is the Labour party like usually always mentioned it is your budget when the budget is approved it is the whole county council budget every member should be responsible for it .
27 The left brain controls the right-hand side of the body , so that if the left brain is damaged it is the right side of the body which is paralysed .
28 I suppose he was angry , he must have known it was a stupid thing to say .
29 So situations are reviewed and we do look at monitored traffic flows for example , we do look at our justifications and if there are reasons for a change we can go back , so it 's not irreversible by any means , that is the current committed preferred route however and I did n't want to give an indication that by changing the diagram we were saying everything 's opened up again , cos clearly we 've reached a stage that the County Council 's declared it 's a preferred route and that 's
30 Indeed , if it was n't for the warning we found in his pouch , we would have assumed it was a simple accident . ’
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