Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [det] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he points out that traditionally the IEEE has not been swayed by big name support if it feels another technology is more meritorious . |
| 2 | For example , s. 59 FSA 1986 permits the SIB , if it believes any individual is not a fit and proper person , to direct that he should not be employed in connection with investment business by any authorised or exempted person . |
| 3 | It might be thought that the ideal of protected expectation is a distinctly democratic ideal , because it proposes that coercion be used only when authorized by procedures to which the people have consented . |
| 4 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 5 | Ms Gordon said the recruitment agencies were enthusiastic about broking as it meant less time was spent pairing applicants with jobs . |
| 6 | As fast as it formed this spume was whisked away into the cave from where it was sucked into a natural wind tunnel and finally shot from a huge blow hole towards the centre of Fianuis . |
| 7 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 8 | However , as it happened this door was not quite closed . |