Example sentences of "it be [adj] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Whitsun eve , 1960 , the Central Theological Commission was set up to prepare the Council ; subject to it were ten sub-commissions presided over by the heads of the corresponding Roman dicasteries . |
| 2 | It 's just it 's just a number be because it 's one length divided by another . |
| 3 | It is certainly not a very edifying tale , but it is small fry compared with the massacre in Romania last weekend at Timisoara , and the further shootings reported to have taken place in Bucharest yesterday . |
| 4 | If the child gives a written statement to the social worker , the statement itself is first-hand hearsay as it is one stage removed from the child who could give direct evidence of the abuse . |
| 5 | But it is pure silk encrusted with sequins and it did give Yul Brynner a regal air when he wore it in The King And I in 1956 . |
| 6 | It is important to realise that it is these eggs deposited in the first half of the grazing season from April to June , which give rise to the potentially dangerous populations of L3 from July to October . |
| 7 | It was enthralling entertainment prompted by United 's need to gamble and attack in the second half . |
| 8 | Her lawyers believed it was highest settlement made in an English divorce court . |
| 9 | It was all people talked about everywhere . |
| 10 | It was one option chosen by Tony Crosland and his advisers from 1965 . |
| 11 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 12 | This was their first public engagement this season but it was small beer compared to this coming Saturday . |
| 13 | However , according to our first prevalence study , it was those areas characterised by the greatest levels of social deprivation that contained both the largest absolute numbers of users and the highest proportions of users . |
| 14 | Two hundred years ago it was those recipes listed under the heading of creams which were much more like the fruit fools of today . |
| 15 | I like to think we achieved a good deal , though it was humble stuff compared to the Kat-Zet . |
| 16 | Although all fittings and furniture had been removed it was Ritzy accommodation compared to a mobile incident van or the decayed huts and barn-like halls to which they were accustomed . |