Example sentences of "[subord] it be [verb] this " in BNC.
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1 | Councillors were known to have had reservations about an earlier plan which included a staff flat on a second storey because , although it was felt this was desirable from a security point of view , it contravened various planning guidelines . |
2 | It was matched , operationally , by General Erskine 's conviction that the Chinese border could be made impregnable and the coastline sealed off to prevent external aid reaching the Vietminh ; although it was admitted this could not be done with existing forces on the border . |
3 | If it is to do this in a more precise , less trade-distorting way , it is bound to be less helpful to big and efficient farms than to small ones . |
4 | But I mean , if it was costing this sort of money to clear the pipes and so forth out , what I fail to understand is if we 're having a full overhaul of the machine , why this was n't incorporated within it . |
5 | Homosexuality is included as a perversion because it is denied this ‘ fundamental experience ’ of otherness-across-gender . |
6 | Because it 's doing this thing all the time is n't it ? |
7 | He predicted Microsoft will sell 1m copies of Windows NT in the first four months after it is released this summer , but that the time between NT 's introduction and its arrival as ‘ the dominant operating system ’ will be as long as three years . |
8 | Bill Gates also predicted that Microsoft will sell 1m copies of Windows NT in the first four months after it is released this summer , but that the time between NT 's introduction and its arrival as ‘ the dominant operating system ’ will be as long as three years . |
9 | And they were er and the gunpowder when , when it was ignited this |