Example sentences of "it be [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently it seemed likely in early May that Japan would avoid the mandatory trade sanctions which would follow if it were named as an unfair trader under the so-called " Super 301 " clause of the 1988 Trade Act [ see pp. 36925-26 ] . |
| 2 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 3 | We 're putting in electronic fax , also image processing , and we 've built a system of information accessing called ‘ folders ’ that will let us get any type of document from anywhere around the world , whether it 's stored on an ordinary disk , optical storage device or whatever . ’ |
| 4 | I nearly always write with an acoustic , but if it 's tuned to an open chord you will obviously have to write something different ; if you stick a capo on it you 'll write something different ; if I use an amplifier and an electric guitar I 'll write something different again . |
| 5 | Chrysler went to GM-owned Lotus to help develop its first multi-valve engine , although it 's based on an existing Chrysler four . |
| 6 | It 's based in an old coffee warehouse , formerly known as the Martinson building , which is situated a block down from his apartment in Tribeca , a vaguely arty district on Manhattan 's Lower West Side . |
| 7 | It ought to be a single , but it 's filled with an old double bed they must have folded in half to squeeze in here , and the internal walls are cheap partitions from where they gutted the Edwardian interior and crammed in as many cubicles as they could . |
| 8 | Counterfeiting is a multi million pound industry and all the signs are that it 's growing at an alarming rate . |
| 9 | Indeed , it says it 's working on an Asynchronous Transfer Mode SBus adaptor board , also expected by the end of the year , for use in Sparcsystem 1 , 2 , and 10 workstations : occupying a single SBus slot , it will support the Local SONET Synchronous Optical Network 155Mbps Physical Layer as defined by the Asynchronous Transfer Mode Forum . |
| 10 | It 's set in an instrumental ambient world a few parallel light years away from The Orb , with titles like ‘ Xtai ’ , ‘ Ptolemy ’ , ‘ Heliosphan ’ and ‘ Hedphelyn ’ that demonstrate the art of Chill-out techno and loads of bits that sound like your phone ringing . |
| 11 | It 's looks like an Indian woman asleep on a pillow . |
| 12 | It is defined as an average distance from the centre of gravity of a polymer coil to the chain end . |
| 13 | It is formed by an electrical discharge in oxygen , and thus by the action of lightning on oxygen in the upper atmosphere . |
| 14 | In many cases , however , it is expressed as an intermittent grumbling of practitioners rather than as a systematic counter-argument . |
| 15 | Published every two months and approximately 12 pages in length , it is intended as an ideal means of keeping the practitioners and their staff up to date on topical issues . |
| 16 | It is formulated as an attractive gel with green microparticles suspended inside . |
| 17 | This entails , as was pointed out above , that disobedience to a law is justified only if it is justified by an existing legal doctrine to that effect . |
| 18 | Some passages in Moscovici 's writings suggest that , although present popular consciousness may not be composed entirely of social representations , it is moving towards an objectified character . |
| 19 | It is developed from an eastern world view , and each of the postures adopted is still used in the East to invoke various deities . |
| 20 | Depending on the evolution of management during the early 1990s , the confusions building up in the Training Authority 's role may need to be unravelled : either it is strengthened as an effective arm of central policy , or it is abolished so that the market — created by itself — can have freer play . |
| 21 | In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan . |
| 22 | However , the idealist production of knowledge leads to mistaken knowledge because it is based on an incorrect account of the determinate relation between reality ( or social being ) and ideas . |
| 23 | Like the RDLS it is based on an explicit model of language production and comprehension . |
| 24 | It is based on an in-house ‘ reconfigurable parallel processing architecture ’ . |
| 25 | It is based on an open VME chassis with Inmos motherboards and HTRAMs and will offers switching boards using one or more C104 Inmos chip , with wire connections between boards conforming to the Inmos standard . |
| 26 | It is based on an open VME chassis with Inmos motherboards and HTRAMs and will offers switching boards using one or more C104 Inmos chip , with wire connections between boards conforming to the Inmos standard . |
| 27 | ‘ I do hate this remorseless military logic particularly when — as usual — it is based on an incomplete knowledge of the facts . ’ |
| 28 | It is based around an English boy , P.K. — played by Brendan Deary as an infant , Guy Witcher as a seven-year-old , Simon Fenton at 12 and Stephen Dorff as an 18-year-old . |
| 29 | It is surmounted by an arcaded gallery with Ionic pilasters . |
| 30 | This state will repress all other classes in society until it is questioned by an alternative mode of production . |