Example sentences of "[subord] it be [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most sustained recent discussion of the nature of the ‘ academic ’ is to be found in the journal Minerva ( see Shils 1984 ; Lobkowicz 1984 ; Ruegg 1986 ) where it is explored in relation to concepts such as truth , inquiry , research , culture ( Bildung ) , community , rationality , disinterestedness , voluntary solidarity and equality among researchers ; though one should not overlook Broady 's ( 1978–9 ) stimulating attack on mere academicism . |
| 2 | Where it is seen by work colleagues to be getting out of kilter , informal controls can be used to restore equilibrium . |
| 3 | Example 104 is taken from Percy Scholes 's Oxford Companion to Music ( 8th edn ) , where it is quoted as music which ‘ abandons all pretence of key in any strand whatever ’ , and is therefore completely atonal : However , far from being atonal , the upper part is very clearly in G minor — ; G being merely a substitution note for A , on which it resolves ( an octave lower than usual ) . |
| 4 | In many cases it satisfies the complainants — and , where it is accompanied by payment of costs , it will satisfy their lawyers as well . |
| 5 | There has been a waterworks at Bocking since 1912 , and the two boreholes now extract five million litres of water a day which is then pumped to the Panfield reservoir , where it is mixed with water from other sources at Petches Bridge , Codham and Notley Road . |
| 6 | Where the heart is turbulent and restless , where it is mixed in motive , and conceals anger , pride , or fear , then the vision of God can not be seen . |
| 7 | Batch processing operations are conducted for other departments at a computer centre ( where it is controlled by DP staff ) because it would be uneconomical to provide each functional department with its own large mainframe computer . |
| 8 | The new product was tested in 1988 and launched in the UK in 1989 and has since been launched in Ireland , Australia and in Canada and the USA , where it is known as Pub Draught Guinness . |
| 9 | In southern France , where it is known as pistou , it is often an accompaniment to roast lamb . |
| 10 | To harden a royal icing , for instance where it is used as part of a structure or decoration , a tiny amount only of acetic acid or cream of tartar could be added . |
| 11 | ‘ For the purposes of this Article an article or substance is not to be regarded as properly used where it is used without regard to any relevant information or advice relating to its use which has been made available by a person by whom it was designed , manufactured , imported or supplied . ’ |
| 12 | The shorter and most effective from a literary standpoint survives in only one manuscript where it is attributed to Rolle . |
| 13 | The dividing line between foregrounding and unmotivated prominence must be drawn in principle : where it is drawn in practice depends on a coherent literary interpretation of style . |
| 14 | In social services departments purchasing work is oriented much more towards individuals than in the NHS , where it is oriented around services . |
| 15 | Abbey Mill is perhaps one of the best known having played an important role in Mrs Craik 's book of 1852 , John Halifax Gentleman , where it is described as Abel Fletcher 's Mill . |
| 16 | Pheromones circulate in the bloodstream and escapes through the pores and sweat glands in the armpits and groin , where it is modified by skin bacteria . |
| 17 | Small scale production has been recorded from South-west England on the fringes of the main mining districts , sometimes with gold , especially in the Wadebridge-Port Isaac area of north Cornwall where it is associated with Devonian spilitic pillow lavas ( Edwards , 1976 ) . |
| 18 | The animosity between Stratford and Kilsby was to some extent personal , yet even where it was related to principles , they were set within revealing limits of assumptions , experience and motives . |
| 19 | On the south side of the structure the concrete was cleaner than to the north , where it was discoloured with moss . |
| 20 | Widely expected to have won last year 's Turner Prize , which was , in fact , awarded to Grenville Davey , Wilding is , nevertheless , enjoying a high profile , with a museum exhibition of ten sculptures from the last ten years having been organised by the Newlyn Art Gallery , where it was seen in March , and now transferred to IKON in Birmingham ( to 5 June ) . |
| 21 | Graham Connah 's excavations in 1964 , for the Department of Antiquities , revealed that tin-bronze was available in 13th-century Benin where it was cast into ingots in open moulds before being smithed into bracelets . |
| 22 | Close investigation of the lode , where it was exposed in Thriddle Scar high above , suggested that it was hading , 18 inches for every fathom in depth , away from the advancing heading ! |
| 23 | Illegally poached ivory is smuggled out of Africa via the United Arab Emirates and , up until mid-1989 , was sold on to Japan , Hong Kong , Taiwan , Korea and Singapore where it was made into trinkets , carvings and piano keys . |
| 24 | But even where it was extended from churches to houses , a spiritual asceticism seems to be its distinguishing characteristic . |
| 25 | Much of what Gould had collected had been shipped back to London in sealed containers , where it was guarded like Pandora 's box until release to the scientific world on his return . |
| 26 | They saw such truancy , often regarded as a symptom of deep-rooted social , emotional or economic problems , as something which , despite their best efforts , they could do little to alleviate especially where it was accepted by parents . |
| 27 | This alters the previous law , where it was held in effect that where a policeman was the only witness to what had occurred , no offence was committed . |
| 28 | When posted to France he donated the bear to London Zoo where it was admired by Milne , who was inspired to name his fictional creation after the little fellow . |
| 29 | Shaking violently in the intolerable hold of a passion as bitter as it was irresistible and torrid , she looked up at the man who had done this to her , his body before and above her , glistening and dark , darker still where it was shadowed with hair . |
| 30 | Perhaps the spiral designs originated in the ‘ Bandkeramik ’ of the Danube basin and arrived in Crete by way of the Cyclades , where stone pyxides were made with spiral ornaments ; but Stylianos Alexiou thinks it more likely that the spiral came from the Middle East , where it was used in gold wire jewellery from an early date . |