Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 2 | ‘ There is no doubt about the quality of the coal , but two questions need to be answered — can it be brought out at a price which allows a profit and can the consortium attract the investment required to run the place ? ’ |
| 3 | It was clean , even the wheels were clean , as if it were put out on a drive on Sundays and given the old once-over like the family car . |
| 4 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 5 | The circulating system wanders a little closer , deepens , is classified under a new title — a moderate tropical storm — and is given a name , Agnes perhaps , or Bob , an innocent , unassuming , rather cosy , old-fashioned sort of name that makes no connection in anybody 's mind with a swirling mass of warm air and piled clouds that is bearing down on the coast , thunder and lightning flickering from its belly , the waves beneath it being whipped up into a fury . |
| 6 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 7 | It 's getting back to a sensible level again , and the music — especially the British music — is really pushing forward . ’ |
| 8 | His leg looks like it 's broke — it 's sticking out at a funny angle . |
| 9 | You 've got an S O four with two bonds on it and it 's holding on to a hydrogen |
| 10 | Once it 's locked up inside a glass case , surely it 's safe ; no one can expect me to do anything about it then . |
| 11 | Now it 's blown up into a dispute between the two , with each side blaming the other for the lack of progress . |
| 12 | It 's teamed up with a charity to start a purpose-built home for sufferers . |
| 13 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 14 | There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol . |
| 15 | It 's coming up in a great lump . |
| 16 | No you you do n't have to rub out the line you can just draw another one as if it 's coming out from a bit you ca n't see . |
| 17 | That 's because it 's going round in a circle — like the Shuttle , and me on my space walk . |
| 18 | It 's a shame it 's going on under a microscope , spotlight or whatever but erm . |
| 19 | But a personal reassurance from me will not be acceptable unless it 's backed up by a member of the Swift family . ’ |
| 20 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
| 21 | While this is undoubtedly a cultural policy and programme which is intended to administer to " national unity " , it is dressed up as a scientific and national response to established " educational " needs . |
| 22 | It is dragged about like a broken doll |
| 23 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 24 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 25 | For the rest of the week it is given over to a different selection : good second-hand clothes , useful but redundant household articles , outgrown children 's toys plus almost anything that someone no longer needs and someone else might use . |
| 26 | Right in the middle of an expanse of orderly herringbone there can be a patch , identical to the rest except that it is twisted round at a different angle so that the ‘ weave ’ goes off in another direction . |
| 27 | In his third collection of cantatas it is bound up with a highly personal use of instrumental ritornellos in dramatic recitatives . |
| 28 | Like all enzymes it is a protein and like some it is made up of a number of polypeptide subunits ( so forming a ‘ complex ’ ) . |
| 29 | It is made up of a number of bones ( vertebrae ) which are placed one on top of another . |
| 30 | If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded . |