Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries it was persecuted and the cruelties heaped upon it were given the full backing of the Church . |
| 2 | By now it was painfully clear that an aircraft display hall was the route for the Museum to take , if it were to secure the long term . |
| 3 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |
| 4 | Do you feel that it 's pointing the right way , bringing the sun in through the right windows at the right time of day ? |
| 5 | IT 'S seeing the funny side that keeps Les Barker buoyant . |
| 6 | It 's become the leading cause of solvent abuse deaths . |
| 7 | And it 's earning the chocolate-coloured Labrador that wrote it a worldwide reputation . |
| 8 | Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it . |
| 9 | Today the nursing home said it 's pleased the whole episode is over . |
| 10 | It 's believed the single seater plane hit a post as it was approaching the runway at R-A-F Bicester in Oxfordshire . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's generating the right kind of timbers , and then making the right kind of products from it . ’ |
| 12 | It 's hoped the new sign will save it from further damage . |
| 13 | It 's hoped the new shelter will open within 18 months . |
| 14 | It 's hoped the new design spreads the stress of the load , working the top of the thigh bone , making it stronger . |
| 15 | It 's hoped the low price of the immobiliser will make it attractive to car owners who 've been reluctant to fit expensive alarms . |
| 16 | The last of the old flats will be emptied and demolished in the autumn and it 's planned the whole Grove facelift will be finished by November . |
| 17 | Feeding most species of marine fish is not therefore as simple as it may seem and even if a fish feeds eagerly , it does n't necessarily mean that it 's eating the right food . |
| 18 | These guys at the front are professionals and it 's stopping the professional side of wheelchair racing coming out . |
| 19 | Most systems of this type are ‘ open ’ , which means they 're topped up with water as necessary from a small tank in the loft , which also accepts any overflow ; it 's called the feed-and-expansion tank . |
| 20 | It 's called the general formula . |
| 21 | Now this looks sort of different from the machine I showed you where they , you know the machine , but in fact it 's the direct development of it , it 's called the fully-fashioned pro and it 's , and this area 's famous for fully-fashioned knitwear . |
| 22 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 23 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 24 | It 's called the ugly duckling , but Mr Summerfield loved it because the woman looked like his mother whom he adored . |
| 25 | It 's called The Red Pony . |
| 26 | It 's called the unitary authority the new one would be and I think suggestion is that the city would go separate as opposed to the county . |
| 27 | That 's the story I was thinking you were doing it today erm it 's called the green knight , but he has a name does n't he ? |
| 28 | It 's called the Transnational Information Exchange , or T I E for short . |
| 29 | So you might find that if you do a thing on the H P you may find that what is being what 's happening is that it it it 's creating the wrong size addressings in the look up table because either it 's using you know , er signed and it 's su assuming unsigned byte or something . |
| 30 | Now it 's bucking the national trend … with crime elsewhere on the increase , Penhill 's changing for the better . |