Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is wanted by its family , so why should n't it be given the chance to live ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The people who said it were telling the truth . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Why we have gone so long using our branch network as though it were doing the information job . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Any attempt to unite them would , therefore , have to be carefully planned if it were to win the acquiescence of the parties involved . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's maintaining the diet for longer and keeping the weight off which is the tricky part . |
| 20 | It only works in the direction in which it 's throwing the ions . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's seeing the university as a factory where people are given identifiable , quantifiable market skills which plug into an entrepreneurial vision of society . |
| 22 | It 's meeting the people . |
| 23 | It is n't the cooking , it 's knowing the meal 's going to be there . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's shocking the way we are being used by some clubs to further their own ends . |
| 25 | It 's overshadowing the proceedings of this conference and other union conferences . |
| 26 | Well we 've been very concerned to try and develop our policies and services and we find this report very helpful because it has given us a very clear lead as to the sort of things which are necessary , and in many ways it 's supporting the ideas which we 've had . |
| 27 | It 's remembering the formulas and stuff that 's er is the is the major thing , because I know , like in the class , I 've not actually had a lesson where I 've done bad . |
| 28 | It 's leaving the time |
| 29 | It 's wasting the battery . |
| 30 | It 's to stop the punters getting thrust onto the coals and roasted . |