Example sentences of "it be [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been blocked before this morning ? |
| 2 | Has it been shown to any dentists ? " |
| 3 | There is real danger in prizing , let us say , speaking in tongues ( which I believe can be a real gift of the Holy Spirit ) so highly that those who lack it are regarded as second-class Christians if Christians at all . |
| 4 | Typical tundra forms a thin , semi-complete vegetation covering in which grasses or low shrubs up to about 50 cm tall are dominant ; spaces within it are caused by bare rock outcrops , and characteristic patches of mobile soil which all plants find difficulty in colonizing . |
| 5 | A substantial part of the trail is already in use ; two units of it are incorporated in two excursions ( to Rutli and to Bauen ) described in this section . |
| 6 | It is very popular with the Milanese , and the seats around it are filled at most times of the day . |
| 7 | to examine to what extent the generation of such travel and the mode used for it are associated with particular household , personal or locational characteristics , and |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dr Longstaff said : ‘ Our study will enable us to find out more about the causes of asthma , suggest ways of preventing it , and make sure the resources to treat it are used to best effect . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Does the idea of homology apply only to morphological patterns , he asks , or can it be applied to developmental processes ? |
| 12 | How effective do you consider this means of presentation and how widely could it be applied to other discourse types ? |
| 13 | The analogy holds in so far as stylistic competence , like linguistic competence , is a capacity which we possess and exercise unconsciously and intuitively : only with special training can it be turned into explicit knowledge . |
| 14 | Can it be related in any way to their own experience ? |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Can it be mixed with half peat so that it goes to er |
| 18 | Not only can it be introduced by contaminated water changes but it is also self-generated as part of the biological filtration cycle . |
| 19 | Can it be combined with another activity ? |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Nor can it be spread on frozen ground . |
| 22 | How can it be discharged on adequate funding ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The government let it be known in late May that it was planning to close the three Saharan detention camps of Reggane , Ain Salah and Ain M'guel , releasing many of those detained for their radical Islamic sympathies , and moving the others further north . |
| 25 | The group and the men associated with it were honoured with two unit citations , a thousand of individual medals and many decorations from allied countries . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Day after day the German heavies pounded the corpses in this gully , until they were quartered , and re-quartered ; to one eye-witness it seemed as if it were filled with dismembered limbs that no one could or would bury . |
| 29 | Herschel reasoned that a relatively nearby star would show a parallax shift against the background of more remote stars if it were observed from opposite sides of the Earth 's orbit . |
| 30 | 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 . |