Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be relied on to work well in the United Kingdom ? |
| 2 | The big question is — can it be given back by design ? |
| 3 | They may , for example , be an adjunct to the use of Taylorism , where fragmented work leads t o the use of particular types of organisation structure , whereas co-ordination of the same overall task , if it were carried out by craft workers on an integrated basis , might be carried out by means of a much simpler organisation structure . |
| 4 | Now , I do n't want to give you a boring lesson about the markets of the day , suffice to say that in 1520 hard cash was rare , most of it being tied up in fields , lands and houses , so it was natural for people like Ralemberg to tout for business . |
| 5 | The best way to " lock up " the caesium , to prevent it being taken up by plants and into the food chain , is by spreading the affected areas with certain minerals , most successfully ammonium ferric hexacyanoferrate , or Prussian blue , which turns the hills blue . |
| 6 | For the fourth time of asking , what will be the impact on 15 Para of the change from battalion to company status , where will the battallion headquarters be , why is it being taken out of Scotland , and , at a time when the Secretary of State says that flexibility and mobility are the key attributes of Britain 's Army , why are we making major reductions in a force which is the most flexible and mobile in the British Army ? |
| 7 | Directly in front of the house beyond a huge weeping beech tree so big it 's propped up with telegraph poles in concrete . |
| 8 | ‘ If they did , they would realise it 's getting out of hand . |
| 9 | Because we need at least one person to do it , it 's go it 's getting out of control now |
| 10 | ‘ It 's made up of anarchists in part and in part middle-class softies . |
| 11 | Because the centre can boast its very own igloo — although admittedly it 's made out of bricks and not ice ! |
| 12 | I think this is your mum if it 's trundling along at max nought point nought , aha it could be , it could be , it is , it will be , it is |
| 13 | ‘ The fact that it 's tied in with Eric Liddell , combines the practical efforts of the community with commemoration of a great Scot and a great Christian Scot , ’ he said . |
| 14 | That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment . |
| 15 | And it 's catching on with arachnaphobics everywhere . |
| 16 | If a woman makes the slightest mistake it 's pounced on as evidence of her general incompetence . |
| 17 | He thinks disco 's reputation as tacky is unfair : ‘ Disco 's got a more sophisticated approach to it , with the way it 's built up in layers . |
| 18 | It 's not really part of Foulness — if you look closely you can see that it 's cut off from Foulness proper by a sort of strait linking the rivers Roach and Crouch . |
| 19 | By the way , it 's laid on at La Motte today , that large farm near the digging ops . |
| 20 | It 's brought on by exercise and excitement . ’ |
| 21 | DB/Expo ‘ 93 , set for May 3 to 7 in San Francisco , says it 's sold out of exhibitor space despite a 35% increase in size over last year ; attendance is projected at 20,000 . |
| 22 | DB/Expo ‘ 93 , set for May 3–7 in San Francisco , says it 's sold out of exhibitor space despite a 35% increase in size over last year . |
| 23 | It 's crowded out with school kids . |
| 24 | It 's wrenched out of Paul . |
| 25 | It 's growing out of sync with the rest of service provision and service development , and this has all sorts of spin-offs . |
| 26 | it 's coming up to time now anyway so we might as well forget the break . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's coming up for midnight , ’ said Shirley , with some relief , pointing at the quartz carriage clock on the mantelpiece . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes ; it 's coming in by Copers Bakery . |
| 29 | So it 's coming back to functions again . |
| 30 | Bamboo enjoyed its first surge of popularity in the last century … and now it 's coming back into fashion once again.Richard Barnett reports : |