Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also the home of the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club whose motto , ‘ The right crowd and no crowding ’ , neatly summed up its attitude — not for nothing has it been called the Ascot of the motor racing world . |
| 2 | On it are written the details of over 30 schoolboy and YTS players , all signed by the Quakers with a chance of making the grade . |
| 3 | If the reasons for it are accommodating the release of people to , like Pam , Lewis and Ron and people like that whom we 've released , erm and the experienced temps then you can at least say when they come back then that position should revert back to the norm . |
| 4 | The computer system will only bring the returns that the company expects if the people using it are using the system fully , which can be guaranteed through investment in adequate training . |
| 5 | The marks of a corporation are : perpetual succession , i.e. the death or withdrawal of members , or the addition of new members from time to time , does not impair the continuity and identity of the body : ‘ in like manner ’ , as Blackstone says , ‘ the river Thames is still the same river , though the parts which comprise it are changing every instant' ; the use of a common seal as evidence of at least the more formal acts of the corporation ; and the capacity to sue and be sued by its corporate name . |
| 6 | Nowhere to the west of the Wallace Line can be found the giant Cassowary , Birds of Paradise or marsupials of Australasia , and nowhere to the east of it are found the tigers , elephants , primates and early man which crossed the land-bridge once connecting Java , Sumatra and Borneo to mainland Asia . |
| 7 | And Rover is right : by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a replacement for the dogged Montego because it competes in a different class . |
| 8 | It was flanked by two towers and its entrance was reached only by a narrow stairway , but by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a fortress . |
| 9 | It is wanted by its family , so why should n't it be given the chance to live ? |
| 10 | Well would n't it be making a point if erm everybody who was owed this time took it regardless |
| 11 | How easy would it be to fit a Series III dash ( complete ) to my 1974 Series III lightweight . |
| 12 | Should it be exhibiting a work which , in all probability , was obtained from its legal owner by fraudulent means ? |
| 13 | Around it were gathered the cloisters , quadrangles , halls , dormitories and playing fields of the school , stretching away up a gently sloping flank of the Quantock Hills . |
| 14 | The people who said it were telling the truth . |
| 15 | Oh no it 's not bad , I think it were er the first swear word I remember that went , went on it were wait a minute tape two , tape one ai n't got none on that I know of . |
| 16 | To say that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is to say this : among possible worlds where it is raining , the one which overall is most like our actual world is also one in which the balcony is wet . |
| 17 | Again , does " If it were raining the balcony would be wet " mean something about other ways that the world would be different , over and above the balcony 's being wet , if there were the difference that it was raining ? |
| 18 | What we have as premiss for the dependent conditional that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is roughly this : in that possible world most like our own in which it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 19 | The ICA felt there was merit in the keeping of a central record , and thought that , if it were made a requirement , it could be part of the responsibility of the reporting accountant to confirm its existence . |
| 20 | But Clive Lawton , head of educational services , said there was still a long way to go , and he warned against being carried away with a good idea if it were to impoverish the rest of the scheme . |
| 21 | Perspective telescopes : with my nasty coffee , I read a report on race riots in my native city , where family and friends remain , as if it were recounting the behaviour of black and white mice in cramped and stressful lab conditions . |
| 22 | It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann . |
| 23 | In a title search , for example , a search for an incomplete or garbled title would lead to the choice of a title index display or a search for titles containing the words of the search , and thenceforth behave rather as if it were doing a subject search . |
| 24 | Why we have gone so long using our branch network as though it were doing the information job . |
| 25 | Immediately underneath the stone lay a cist containing several rude cinerary urns , and alongside of it were found a gold fibula and an armilla of a peculiar type made from a broad band of gold beaten out so as to form a convex centre , on each side of which was a fluted ornamental border , and a raised rim returned at the edge . " |
| 26 | Almost as if it were playing a game . |
| 27 | There were a few exceptions to prove the rule , but by and large the Commons looked as if it were fighting the class war rather than debating the need for the protection of wild mammals . |
| 28 | Any attempt to unite them would , therefore , have to be carefully planned if it were to win the acquiescence of the parties involved . |
| 29 | In other words , once the magazine has come into his possession , the man as it were acquires the right to treat the images on its pages in whichever way he chooses . |
| 30 | DOS 6 will see it being brought a lot more up to date . |