Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been blocked before this morning ? |
| 2 | Has it been shown to any dentists ? " |
| 3 | It is very popular with the Milanese , and the seats around it are filled at most times of the day . |
| 4 | Leaflets giving details of the Alumni Foundation 's work and how to support it are enclosed with this magazine or can be obtained from the Alumni Foundation Office in Senate House . |
| 5 | If , as appears likely , it only applies to the latter case , can it be invoked by any Member State or only by a Member State which voted against the legislation ? |
| 6 | Can it be related in any way to their own experience ? |
| 7 | And , even if it had to be done by a department , could it be done with fewer people in a different and more managerially efficient way ? |
| 8 | But for girls who were unattached and less inhibited , and who yearned for a bit of ‘ fun ’ , the prospect of lavish meals in American messes , and gifts of sweets and nylons , accompanied , let it be said in all fairness , by flatteringly gallant , if brash , wooing , could be a powerful magnet . |
| 9 | Can it be mixed with half peat so that it goes to er |
| 10 | Can it be combined with another activity ? |
| 11 | If you elect to seek redress under this Scheme , written notice requesting arbitration under this Scheme must be made within 9 months after the scheduled date of return from holiday ( only in exceptional circumstances may it be offered outside this period ) . |
| 12 | Napoleon III let it be known to both men that a simple withdrawal of the candidature would suffice and that France would then be glad to consider the whole affair closed . |
| 13 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 14 | That would be impossible to accommodate without major adverse effect up what is a historic town , almost entirely er located within a conservation area , and as Mr Curtis said , erm constrained by the greenbelt , the final point is er it is located within the A sixty four corridor and it is inevitable that it would serve the needs of Leeds rather than the needs of York if it were expanded in that way . |
| 15 | However , some sole practitioners indicated that they might accept the principle of prior approval if it were extended to all firms or at least all new firms in the process of setting up . |
| 16 | My Lord , My Lords , to what extent is the teaching of religion in primary schools confined to the religion of the er , er to which the child has been accustomed , has been brought up , erm and er would it not be better if , if it were confined in that way and if the teaching of other religions were postponed until the child were older and in the secondary schools ? |
| 17 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 18 | In a real sense , our mind or at least , our mind as it truly is , our mind as it would be if it were purged of all individuality , partiality , incompleteness , confusion , emotion and what not , is identical with the total absolute which the business of philosophy is to study . |
| 19 | " It being stated to this Meeting that the Water of A-ruagh under Kilchoman House is at present impassable — and a total obstruction to Travelling until a Bridge is erected — … |
| 20 | " It being represented to this meeting that part of the Church yard of Kilnaughtan , facing the South E : or the sea is likely to be carried away by the Blowing of Sand and that several Coffins have been exposed " the meeting appoints a Committee to obtain any estimate for banking . |
| 21 | 1792 It being Represented to this Meeting that their is unlawful combinations and Meetings held by the Weavers in the Island , particularly in the Parish of Kilchoman , for the purpose of shortening or cutting off the usual measure called the Islay Ell , which has for time Immemorial been the Standard Measure given by the Weavers with every Species of their Manufacture , and for reducing the measure to the English yard , and for continueing the prices for the English yard as high as that for the Islay Ell |
| 22 | To this must be added the cost of accommodation in the future , it being accepted on all sides that the plaintiff 's present home , though much loved by her , is not suitable in any long term assessment . |
| 23 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |
| 24 | 1811 " It being known to this Meeting that two Parochial Schoolhouses are upon the way of being finished at Kilchoman and Kilmeny , and that it is proposed to build a third schoolhouse at Kildalton … stent themselves in the sum of £70 . " |
| 25 | When they inspected the wicket , they found it being rolled by some prisoners from the local jail , one of whom looked familiar to Boycott . |
| 26 | Which means , as we 've already remarked , that it 's caused by some combination of desire and belief : in this case , by Pooh 's desire , not just for honey , but to get a true belief about whether what 's in the pot is honey , and his belief that the way to get that true belief is to taste what 's in the pot . |
| 27 | If we must have a past , then let's be sure it 's molested with this kind of amusement ! |
| 28 | It 's getting towards that time of year when you want to make plenty of garments and the faster the better . |
| 29 | You get the feeling that BMW likes the attention it 's getting in this area — plenty of supercar glory by association without getting its environmentally friendly hands dirty . |
| 30 | We said they could n't have the corpse if we did n't get it — that 's by the by — but it 's understood by both sides that this is the last of such meetings . |