Example sentences of "[vb pp] it be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Having said it 's a new area , self-management itself is not new to the Horton is it ? |
| 6 | Besides , Adam had said it was a long detour to get back on to the main road , if this lane was cut off . |
| 7 | He 'd said it was a natural voice , one that did n't have to be nursed or conserved or constantly disciplined . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But their parents had obviously thought it was a suitable area . |
| 10 | Well I would n't have thought it was a one-one function . |
| 11 | I would have thought it was a regular occurrence . |
| 12 | Someone must have thought it was a bright idea , though . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | not a tickly cough she 's got it 's a chesty cough . |
| 15 | I 'm told it 's a splendid building . ’ |
| 16 | We 're told it 's a low-cost desktop with a built-in PCI bus . |
| 17 | I own a 1979 Range Rover , chassis number 35857365F , and have been told it is a right hand drive export model . |
| 18 | ‘ I am told it is a different skill . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | Brought together again for the conference , which starts in december , most are agreed it 's a good idea . |
| 21 | I suppose he was angry , he must have known it was a stupid thing to say . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | Indeed , if it was n't for the warning we found in his pouch , we would have assumed it was a simple accident . ’ |
| 24 | Although swap space may be increased it is a drastic solution simply to obtain a parse for a single sentence . |
| 25 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 26 | I 'd heard it was a lovely area but was n't prepared for its rugged beauty . |
| 27 | Most media release paper is designed to attract attention and if this is not overdone it is a sensible idea . |
| 28 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 29 | When cystic fibrosis was first described it was a fatal disease of children . |
| 30 | It was also said that if the bow should move of its own accord after it had been draped it was a bad omen . |