Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 2 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 3 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 4 | In the experience of the author , the idea of the scheme is catching on very widely , and the theories running through it are rubbing off on traditional conveyancing practice in the commercial area . |
| 5 | Could it be relied on to work well in the United Kingdom ? |
| 6 | The big question is — can it be given back by design ? |
| 7 | ‘ There is no doubt about the quality of the coal , but two questions need to be answered — can it be brought out at a price which allows a profit and can the consortium attract the investment required to run the place ? ’ |
| 8 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 9 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 10 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 11 | and pulled myself over the gutter , it were alright getting up , it were getting back in |
| 12 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 13 | It was clean , even the wheels were clean , as if it were put out on a drive on Sundays and given the old once-over like the family car . |
| 14 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 15 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 16 | Iran has made it plain that it would take it amiss if it were left out of any post-war security arrangements for the Gulf — but even more amiss if outsiders ( read Americans ) were to stay on . |
| 17 | No sociological research is likely to produce absolutely clear cut answers ; if it were to come out with all the results 100 per cent in support of some hypothesis it would rather suggest that the hypothesis was hardly worth bothering about in the first place . |
| 18 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 19 | They may , for example , be an adjunct to the use of Taylorism , where fragmented work leads t o the use of particular types of organisation structure , whereas co-ordination of the same overall task , if it were carried out by craft workers on an integrated basis , might be carried out by means of a much simpler organisation structure . |
| 20 | The third earl designed this house himself with a view to it being lived in by his eldest son and subsequent heirs . |
| 21 | Now , I do n't want to give you a boring lesson about the markets of the day , suffice to say that in 1520 hard cash was rare , most of it being tied up in fields , lands and houses , so it was natural for people like Ralemberg to tout for business . |
| 22 | But falling pupil numbers at Soudley Primary School could lead to it being shut down within the next few years . |
| 23 | The circulating system wanders a little closer , deepens , is classified under a new title — a moderate tropical storm — and is given a name , Agnes perhaps , or Bob , an innocent , unassuming , rather cosy , old-fashioned sort of name that makes no connection in anybody 's mind with a swirling mass of warm air and piled clouds that is bearing down on the coast , thunder and lightning flickering from its belly , the waves beneath it being whipped up into a fury . |
| 24 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 25 | The ban on the export of wool , which was so extensively produced in Lincolnshire , led to it being smuggled out of the country . |
| 26 | The best way to " lock up " the caesium , to prevent it being taken up by plants and into the food chain , is by spreading the affected areas with certain minerals , most successfully ammonium ferric hexacyanoferrate , or Prussian blue , which turns the hills blue . |
| 27 | For the fourth time of asking , what will be the impact on 15 Para of the change from battalion to company status , where will the battallion headquarters be , why is it being taken out of Scotland , and , at a time when the Secretary of State says that flexibility and mobility are the key attributes of Britain 's Army , why are we making major reductions in a force which is the most flexible and mobile in the British Army ? |
| 28 | Now it could possibly be that , he was already married , and would want the children from that marriage to receive all the land that he had , rather than it being spread out with with more children that Ruth was gon na have . |
| 29 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
| 30 | agreed that they 've lent this money out , but it 's bounced back you see , it 's bouncing back on them , and this , everything 's bouncing back on everybody now , but it seems |