Example sentences of "it be [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A substantial part of the trail is already in use ; two units of it are incorporated in two excursions ( to Rutli and to Bauen ) described in this section . |
| 2 | For even if the Danes say Yes to the treaty ( see next article ) , worries about it are growing in three European countries that have hitherto been staunchly pro-European . |
| 3 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 4 | The group and the men associated with it were honoured with two unit citations , a thousand of individual medals and many decorations from allied countries . |
| 5 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |
| 6 | It were raining at five o'clock this morning . |
| 7 | If it were 20 per cent greater , there would be no less dissatisfaction and unfulfilled demand at the margin ; if it were 20 per cent less — I do not mean if it were reduced by 20 per cent but if it were now 20 per cent less than it actually is , nobody would be the wiser . |
| 8 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |
| 9 | We next hear of it being bought in 1865 by Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy who resold it to a Paris jeweller . |
| 10 | It 's flattering after 15 years of marriage , to know that he 's in a lather of anticipation about undressing his wife . |
| 11 | A couple whose cottage garden is so spectacular that it 's visited by two thousand people a year are about to move house . |
| 12 | It 's now available in colours , the first time it 's altered in 102 years . |
| 13 | This may look like a minute , but it 's not a minute , and it 's getting less one with every line . |
| 14 | It 's filtered with four powerheads running undergravels , a wet and dry gravity-fed trickle filter , and two external power filters . |
| 15 | It 's made from one piece of mahogany , with no extra bits making up the headstock or heel , and it 's a superb piece of work . |
| 16 | ‘ At home you hardly know whether it 's raining from one day to the next but here you feel better every time the sun comes out . |
| 17 | It 's existed for thousands of years ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's split about 70/30 between people who want to trade down and those who want a more expensive place , ’ says founder Phillip Nunn . |
| 19 | It 's lit with two pairs of five foot Northlight , and Grolux tubes , two 42″ Grolux , and two single 12″ Grolux and triton tubes . |
| 20 | " It 's broken in two . |
| 21 | It 's broken in two ! ’ |
| 22 | Once the prescription is dispensed , it 's sent to one of several pricing offices , which use this column to mark down how much the medicines or other products ( eg hosiery , dressings etc ) cost . |
| 23 | Multi-disciplinary team again — although it 's led by one particular agency , there are inputs from a whole range of agencies . |
| 24 | At the moment it 's chaired by one of the senior staff . |
| 25 | Especially if it 's written by one of them . |
| 26 | Inghams , for example , is offering a two-bedroom apartment with a huge living room overlooking the Matterhorn in the four star Hotel Ambassador in Zermatt in mid March for just over £300 for a week each , if it 's occupied by six people . |
| 27 | Actually it 's mentioned in one of the Bleakland books , though I had n't read them then . |
| 28 | And this one does n't really count , considering it 's shared with four other tenants . |
| 29 | It 's travelling at one mph and SHOULD be off the motorway by 7.00 pm tonight , with the road opening an hour later . |
| 30 | She says closing the college would be a terrible blow — it 's used by thousands of people . |