Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Can it be related in any way to their own experience ?
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 ?
5 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 .
6 It 's appeared in several films about the mafia and carried a whole host of corsed actors .
7 Now we 've got to race against time again , this is not just happening in NUPE it 's happened all over and it 's gon na it 's happening in this union before it starts .
8 Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction .
9 I think it 's working in this club or summat .
10 See it 's going in this column
11 It it 's sitting in those chairs I was yeah sitting on them , on them sloping chairs
12 Thus it is said in several cases that the plaintiff must have ‘ a right of property in the thing and a right of possession ’ and that unless both these rights concur the action will not lie .
13 It is said in some quarters she is being vindictive about these matters .
14 It is said in some circles that Morrison is alive and well and living in Des Moines , so perhaps we will one day have to sit through Doors II : the Incognito Years .
15 It is conceded in this study ( Hegarty et al . ,
16 But it is governed in some detail by statutory requirements , and so is undeniably a system of statutory regulation .
17 It is entirely land-locked , which means that it is bordered in all directions by other countries — Zambia , Zimbabwe , Namibia and South Africa .
18 If it is seen in this way the burden for change rests with black staff and not with the white staff and institutions which perpetuate discrimination and racism .
19 The interior certainly does look light , though it is assisted in this respect by the Cathedral eastern Gothic rose .
20 It is turned in this action towards the meagre amount of light , light which has a density and texture not often seen in real life , created by filling the air with smoke and piercing it with tungsten light .
21 ‘ The contract between mortgagor and mortgagee , as it is understood in this court , makes the mortgage a security , not only for principal and interest , and such ordinary charges and expenses as are usually provided for by the instrument creating the security , but also for the costs properly incident to a suit for foreclosure or redemption .
22 Since perfect competition does not exist in practice — at best it is approximated in some markets — the stringent conditions for efficient resource allocation by the market are not met .
23 It is argued in this book that in many areas of the world where environmental fragility is an outstanding characteristic , there is a failure to adapt to a variety of new and related pressures , particularly population pressure and increased state intervention which is often extractive in nature , and also that such technically state-sponsored innovations that there are , tend to be inappropriate or inaccessible .
24 It is argued in this study that although the courts did matter , they often failed to operate in the ways intended by British policy-makers .
25 Secondly , as a matter of fact , it is accepted in many areas of the higher education curriculum that the basic conceptual understanding can not be fully accomplished at the undergraduate stage , in which case the ‘ frontiers of knowledge ’ can be shown only to students who follow on to a postgraduate programme .
26 It is explored in more detail on pp.36- 7 .
27 The arrow with a large tip is placed across the right shoulder of the hero , but it is not clear how it is sustained in this position .
28 If it is lived in that world , the vow of celibacy witnesses to other women and indeed to men .
29 Most of the energy is thrown out of the exhaust pipe and in heat loss from the radiator , and in a erm small losses in friction inside the engine and gearbox , but most of it is lost in this conversion from heat from burning petrol into the mechanical energy of the rotating energy .
30 ‘ It is a unique paper , ’ he says , ‘ and it is held in such affection because , no matter where Ulster people are , it is the one which keeps them in touch with ALL the local sport , whether its football and rugby or darts and pigeon racing . ’
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