Example sentences of "[prep] it [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Venezuelan state coal mining company Corpozulia has continued to develop open-cast mining on Yukpa lands despite it being declared illegal by the Venezuelan Agrarian Office . |
| 2 | It is part of your professional obligations to ensure that the full price is properly recorded on the conveyancing documentation , and if any part of it is to remain outstanding , it could always be secured by a loan agreement or indeed by a mortgage back to the seller . |
| 3 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 4 | Someone blows a whistle , and this train starts rumbling , like it 's getting ready to drive off . |
| 5 | anyway at least you 've made contact and it seems , seems like it 's going okay |
| 6 | It sounds like it was bought new , so you probably got a guarantee with it from the manufacturer . |
| 7 | Underneath it was piping hot . |
| 8 | Although such a payment is made in a very limited number of cases , this booklet 's authors are dead against it being made automatic ; after all |
| 9 | The Bank 's initial forecast and the factors behind it are made available at 9.45 a.m. each day , but revisions to the overall shortage may be made during the course of the day , typically being announced at noon and 2 p.m . |
| 10 | The pitfalls and dangers that knowledge brings with it are becoming apparent . |
| 11 | and erm I actually received twenty seven and twopence a week , to start with it was paid weekly but subsequently erm we went on to the monthly erm payments and er but that 's what I had and er I used to pay my sister fifteen shillings a week for , for lodgings . |
| 12 | Having said that , the hon. and learned Member for Burton makes a good point : it would offend against the views of ordinary persons and would be a crying sense of injustice if people who were not party to the aggravated crime and who had sought to distance themselves from it were found guilty because the balance of probabilities had fallen on them to prove their innocence . |
| 13 | In it are included graphic re-workings of that Medieval theme by twentieth-century masters such as George Grosz , Otto Dix , Max Beckmann , Kathe Kollwitz and Alfred Kubin . |
| 14 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 15 | After twenty minutes , her breakfast tray arrived ; upon it was boiling red soup , chocolate ice cream , and a fizzy orange drink . |
| 16 | If the rate of crime increases when the adverse social conditions which have been linked to it are becoming ameliorated , the answer must lie elsewhere : either in the failure of the criminal justice system to deliver sanctions with sufficient certainty or positiveness ( the ‘ New Right ’ analysis ) , or in changes in the availability of criminal opportunities in the environment ( administrative criminology ) . |
| 17 | The Company already had powers to provide electric lighting throughout the Sutton and Cheam districts and to it were made available the powers conferred by the Mitcham Light Railway Order and the Croydon & District Tramways Acts of 1902 and 1903 . |
| 18 | At the government 's request , a report was being prepared by the International Trade Commission which , had the bill been passed , may have led to it being declared illegal for blocking international trade under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| 19 | The patient is then far more likely to respond favourably to the proposal than if the reasons for it are left vague . |