Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 2 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 3 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 6 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 7 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 10 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 11 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 12 | But falling pupil numbers at Soudley Primary School could lead to it being shut down within the next few years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The ban on the export of wool , which was so extensively produced in Lincolnshire , led to it being smuggled out of the country . |
| 15 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
| 16 | It 's ganning back in the morning . |
| 17 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 18 | ‘ It 's getting on for an hour since we left Cartier . ’ |
| 19 | It 's getting back to a sensible level again , and the music — especially the British music — is really pushing forward . ’ |
| 20 | Now … " he rooted through the papers on the floor , " now , here 's your marriage certificate , it 's made out in the name of Paddy Montgomery … " |
| 21 | His leg looks like it 's broke — it 's sticking out at a funny angle . |
| 22 | End date it 's picking up off the same list . |
| 23 | It 's picking up onto the same list is it ? |
| 24 | It 's rainin' up in the mountains accordin' to that nice immigration laddie . |
| 25 | You 've got an S O four with two bonds on it and it 's holding on to a hydrogen |
| 26 | It 's to sit down with the practice manager and say right tell me about these businesses . |
| 27 | Once it 's locked up inside a glass case , surely it 's safe ; no one can expect me to do anything about it then . |
| 28 | Now it 's blown up into a dispute between the two , with each side blaming the other for the lack of progress . |
| 29 | If you 're buying a cut tree , you 'll be paying obviously from where it 's cut up to the bottom branch , or if it 's a rooted tree you 'll be paying from ground level up to the bottom branch again . |
| 30 | When the second part of the strap is cut it 's matched up with the main piece for colour . |