Example sentences of "it [be] [vb pp] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That that used to be mentioned between us er er a few times , I can remember it being mentioned a few times . |
| 2 | It 's believed the same gang have raided at least three homes … and they may be linked with a series of other burglaries . |
| 3 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 4 | This enables pertinent Objections to be lodged if it is felt the same are relevant . |
| 5 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 6 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 7 | It was debated no fewer than five times on the Floor of the House and was given long and detailed scrutiny by a Select Committee over 26 days . |
| 8 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
| 9 | I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized . |
| 10 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 11 | But it was followed a few months later by sort of mini riot . |
| 12 | However , I changed my mind about the seriousness of Denning 's pronouncements when it was declared a few weeks later that the case of the Birmingham Six was to be reconsidered . |
| 13 | It was known that a change was taking place and Perhaps it was felt the more because of the very success of the Concert ; humanitarian impulses and liberal assumptions had disguised the fact , axiomatic to professional diplomats , that the interests of states often conflicted . |
| 14 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |
| 15 | It was found a few miles from his car on the seashore near Great Yarmouth . |
| 16 | He rapped three times on the door of Room 144 , it was opened a few inches . |
| 17 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 18 | On it was inscribed the same text in three different scripts — Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic as well as , most importantly , Greek . |
| 19 | The spokesman said that 10 NPFL fighters had died in the Vahun incident , and that all bodies had been buried , but it was reported the same day that Taylor had ordered that the bodies should be exhumed . |
| 20 | It was reported the same day that the UN military commander in Somalia , Brig. -Gen . |