Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States began consultations with friendly powers in October letting it be understood that a UN temporary commission would be proposed , charged with supervising elections and reporting back to the UN Security Council and General Assembly at Lake Success . |
| 2 | Fixing aluminium foil behind radiators , dull side against the wall , helps to reflect heat outwards , instead of letting it be absorbed by the wall . |
| 3 | For a terrible equation prevailed : that which would ultimately save the human race — the evolution of a higher consciousness — was , in its long and vulnerable gestation , exactly what could so easily destroy humanity by letting it be corrupted , polluted , warped and ruined . |
| 4 | That means , year on year , sustaining the commitment instead of letting it be eroded . ’ |
| 5 | In effect , however , he was letting it be known that Mr Heseltine would not be the only interventionist candidate for the leadership -nor the only one to feel more enthusiasm about Europe than Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's vital that the people making those decisions are in touch with the grass roots of the sport — that they are out there on the ground talking to athletes and coaches , attending races and letting it be known what they are doing . |
| 7 | Tory party managers are letting it be known that the Commons will rise for the summer recess on 17 July . |
| 8 | If you let your debtors get away with not paying or late paying you are only hurting your own image by letting it be known that your credit control is open to abuse and that you can be financially pushed around . |
| 9 | A second note of warning was issued a month later , when Andrew Gardner , a member of the Montrose interest , advised that Smith would meet with much opposition from the heritors , and indeed one of the heritors attempted to bargain with the duke by letting it be known that his attitude towards Mr. Smith might change if the Duke of Montrose allowed the laird to purchase the superiority of some of his lands . |
| 10 | In any event , Acheson had realized that the US bargaining position with the French disappeared ‘ the moment we agree to give them aid ’ and , as if to confirm this predicament , a couple of days after Truman 's cabinet had decided unanimously in favour of recognition , the French were letting it be known that , although their intentions were indeed evolutionary , they could not ‘ afford to kindle unrealistic national appetites ’ . |
| 11 | Baldwin encouraged it to do so — by inviting an unacceptable resolution , by promoting a secret ballot , and letting it be known that he would resign if defeated . |
| 12 | In the words of one politician , ‘ given that the major public utilities are under constant political attack , it is in the interests of the chairmen to have the minister broadly defending the industry and not letting it be known in the ways the minister has at his disposal that he basically agrees with the critics ’ ( fieldnotes ) . |