Example sentences of "it be [verb] [art] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
2 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
3 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
4 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
5 | It first approached the CNAA in 1971 , and after some initial doubts on the part of the Council , it was told the following year that the CNAA might be able to consider a formal approach on condition that the new institution was not called a ‘ university ’ — since the CNAA was precluded by its Charter from the validation of universities . |
6 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |