Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 At this point , the DC is in state CREATED and the user who created it is said to be the ‘ associated user ’ .
2 In many of the societies described it is found that the collective is emphasized rather than the individual .
3 ‘ But what really fixed it was visiting my family in the States .
4 And Northumbrian Water reported it was extracting water from the river once again after inlets at Broken Scar Treatment Works , near Darlington , were closed as a precautionary measure on Tuesday night , and emergency supplies brought into use .
5 So taken with this image was former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that she let it be known throughout the realm that Marks & Spencer was the place she bought her underwear .
6 She let it be known that this was a cause she would wish to be supported and therefore we intend to open a Fund for a period of six months from 1st March — 1st September at the end of which time the Society will donate the money to the hospital in Molly 's name .
7 In first time and a better fish , we even joked it was bound to be another twenty !
8 There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . "
9 They stopped it being watered down and prevented the part about combating discrimination from being taken out .
10 The two people who found it are expected to receive the value of the brooch but it 's a very well preserved skull , I suppose it was all in mud an
11 It was essential to recruit them over there before they arrived ; if they found it was getting too expensive to advertise and recruit well that was that . ’
12 But he found it was taking up more and more time : ‘ It had to be double or quits , ’ he said .
13 When he got to the horse 's stall he found it was locked .
14 He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’
15 When the girls reached the lowest part of the road to Mellstock , they found it was flooded .
16 Sandra Melhuish found it was teaching that really made her happy
17 I went into the garden and I found it was pouring with ram- .
18 Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said .
19 When they inspected the wicket , they found it being rolled by some prisoners from the local jail , one of whom looked familiar to Boycott .
20 If some of those who proposed it are proved right in several years ' time , I hope that I will admit as much , but I have grave doubts nevertheless , and they are shared by a large number of heavyweight people in the Scottish universities .
21 When she surfaced it was to find that they were back at Piazzale Roma , the big square thronging as usual .
22 This has been confirmed in England ; for example by a teacher in Manchester who believed it was caused in her sample by a phonic bias in the teaching .
23 Fishlock added : ‘ Sellafield today is seen , not as a liability , but as an asset to tourism in the Lake District ’ and he believed it was equipped ‘ for a more environmentally conscious 1990s in a way other parts of British industry have scarcely begun to address . ’
24 Mr McNeil said yesterday that although the region would co-operate fully with the CRE investigation as it was legally required to do , he believed it was focusing too narrowly on the region 's assessment procedures .
25 From information received it was thought that some illegal activity was afoot off the Teign estuary so Venturous and Valiant were detailed to keep watch on the movements of local vessels early in August , 1964 .
26 Countries which actually adopted it were found to er in this way .
27 Once DNA was there , it proved to be so much more efficient as a replicator , and so much more powerful in its effects on its own replication , that the original replication system that spawned it was cast off and forgotten .
28 Except , as we have seen , for confident bourgeois like James Mill and Edward Miall , both those who campaigned for universal suffrage , like the Chartists in the 1830s and '40s , and those who dreaded and opposed it were agreed that it would lead to the political domination of the working class .
29 When he woke it was to find her sitting beside him on the bed , watching him .
30 I think that announcement was actually made I told it was going to be and has committed to support D R D A two and that effectively provides an alternative A P I perhaps as O D B C with Microsoft 's backing will become the norm in the P C environment , D R D A will be in the I B M environment .
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