Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it been swallowed by the frigid lands ? ’ |
| 2 | A sense of the past may be retained by the use of remembrancers whose representations of it are differentiated from the everyday casual memories of people . |
| 3 | If it needed to be done , could it be done in the private or public sector ? |
| 4 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 5 | The Act which he had just steered through Parliament faced Emanuel with difficult choices : should it remain fully independent and operate outside the State system , or should it be incorporated within the local provision of schooling and become a voluntary-aided school ? |
| 6 | The wider the areas covered by the theory , the less certain is the theory 's explanation likely to be and the more tentatively will it be held by the scientific community . |
| 7 | No longer can it be described as the sick man of the industry ’ |
| 8 | How would it be to walk in the Dark Fields and journey in the Mountains of Twilight and swim in the underground Crimson Lakes … ? |
| 9 | There were a few cancelled bookings for children and Darlington Conservative councillor Peter Jones went on Radio Four last week , calling for it be banned from the Civic , where it is due on March 31 . |
| 10 | on to floor and it runs , it just , it ran down into corner , there 's a a wheel , thing , and the cheek well it 's a a pulley wheel , and it , it were looking round the big handle at pulley wheel at me . |
| 11 | If it were joined with the Legislative Power , the power over the life and liberty of citizens would be arbitrary , because the Judge would be Legislator . |
| 12 | Whilst recognising the central role of managers in providing counselling in these circumstances , consideration should be given , in exceptional cases , to whether this form of support would be delivered more effectively if it were separated from the normal manager/employee relationship . |
| 13 | The magnification tells you how much larger an object looks that if it were viewed with the naked eye . |
| 14 | If this can be established as an objective truth , then this would indeed make a correctionalist approach misguided — although only if it were committed to the total elimination of deviance . |
| 15 | In systems integration , for example , Gartner Group rates Bull fourth in Europe and sixth in the world , which is a fact that continually gets lost amid all of Bull 's other bad news — and the French authorities seem to be oblivious to how badly the regular injections of state cash to prop Bull up play in the outside world , causing the company to be regarded as a corporate basket case that would no longer exist if it were subjected to the normal commercial disciplines faced by all its foreign competitors . |
| 16 | George Wade then took over the studio of Sir J. Edgar Boehm [ q.v. ] and in 1891 his bust of I. J. Paderewski was so appreciated that 500 reproductions of it were ordered for the American market alone . |
| 17 | The elections for it were promised for the following year and already by the time of the secretary of state 's television broadcast in early September both the NIO and the Ulster political parties were evolving respective plans . |
| 18 | He arrives to find it being searched by the Czechoslovakian police . |
| 19 | There was a large police presence at the rave , despite it being licensed by the local council . |
| 20 | Erm it 's very well made we have a video , watching it being made from the bare |
| 21 | The trade name Permutit was given to this patented ion exchange process , it being derived from the Latin verb to exchange . |
| 22 | A horse that is empathic with another knows how the other feels without it being told through the usual senses of sight , hearing , touch , and smell . |
| 23 | Italy 's failure to implement EC directives have resulted in it being taken to the European Court of Justice more times than any other country in 1989 . |
| 24 | To cure spin out the aim is to try and spread the sideways force of the sail along the rails of the board , rather than it being concentrated on the straining skeg . |
| 25 | Mm , see one of the dangers of just reading the bible is that you have to be careful you do n't fall into the pitfall of just reading it when if you do then it 'll all look as if it 's pointing towards the only way out is heaven |
| 26 | And a very dangerous conspiracy since I suspect it 's connected with the secret project I was controlling alone . |
| 27 | You 'll naturally find your own level — whether it 's getting into the growing competition circuit or sticking to a local reservoir . |
| 28 | Cos I 'm , I 'm getting desperate cos it 's getting near the actual time . |
| 29 | The picture will only appear if it 's placed in the correct position . |
| 30 | Now it 's the turn of the attack to show it 's made of the right stuff . |