Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 2 | A number of local studies have been undertaken on what the impact of the poll tax would be had it been implemented in the 1988 — 9 financial year . |
| 3 | Anorexia is a relatively modern illness er the first descriptions of it are found in the nineteenth century and today it 's er by no means an uncommon illness in er mainly in young women , very occasionally in men , but , but er y it 's more or less safe to say it 's er it 's a disease of er women and almost always younger women . |
| 4 | If it needed to be done , could it be done in the private or public sector ? |
| 5 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 6 | How would it be to walk in the Dark Fields and journey in the Mountains of Twilight and swim in the underground Crimson Lakes … ? |
| 7 | Unsuccessful attempts to replace it were made in the fifties and sixties . |
| 8 | The picture will only appear if it 's placed in the correct position . |
| 9 | ‘ At least it 's made in the genuine outdoor manner with the billy of water suspended from an iron bar over the flames . |
| 10 | And I do n't think it need come to that , not if it 's handled in the right way . |
| 11 | ‘ Not if it 's handled in the right way . |
| 12 | So far the birds in this country are being reared solely for sale as breeding pairs , but it 's hoped in the next few years the stock will be large enough to sell the birds for their meat . |
| 13 | ‘ Only if it 's damaged in the normal course of play , ’ said Stevie . |
| 14 | Now , I have n't totally had a chance to talk to Mr er , about that , but I would assume that means you er , and so it 's moving in the other direction if anything Mrs . |
| 15 | Called The Corbetts and other Scottish Hills , it 's produced in the same successful format as the SMC 's previous guide to the Munros . |
| 16 | I 'll make sure it 's mentioned in the right quarters . ’ |
| 17 | Still , make sure that it 's mentioned in the next circular , lad . |
| 18 | Check out the stats on this iceblockbuster of a game when it 's reviewed in the next cool issue of ZZAP ! |
| 19 | It 's lying in the same direction as it was flying when it came down — north-east to south-west . |
| 20 | then it 's travelling in the opposite direction , it is now |
| 21 | Working on the same principle as a jigsaw , but with the reciprocating blade in line with the saw body , it 's used in the same position as a hand saw , but held with both hands . |
| 22 | Well , yes , it 's very interesting , but I 'm not sure it 's working in the same direction as almost implied by your question of implying that there was almost too much . |
| 23 | Well it 's very interesting , but I 'm not sure it 's working in the same direction as almost implied by your question of implying that there was almost too much . |
| 24 | That is , they think it 's knitted in the same yarns and feels just the same as single -bed Fair Isle . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm getting a case together and it 's going in the right direction . |
| 26 | It 's going in the right direction . |
| 27 | But I think it 's going in the right direction , that in , in a sense what is not wanted is , is facts to , to cluster the , the , the memory but erm imaginative qualities to kindle the , the intellectual spirit 's curiosity that we really want to awaken . |
| 28 | ‘ We all want F1 to be successful but it 's going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 29 | Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ? |
| 30 | But this fantasy is also a chilling tease : it 's recounted in the past tense , as something which Gustave , in a moment of weakness , fleetingly imagined himself doing . |