Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 2 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 3 | Anyway , it became Big Willies Are Rarely Found . |
| 4 | Proctor & gamble and Unilever , the two giants of the detergent industry , were guilty of this practice , and it recommended that advertising be reduced and product prices cut . |
| 5 | A child who is continually told it has low status is likely to grow into a low-status adult . |
| 6 | It adds that inflation is likely to be higher and domestic demand slower than it predicted in its last report six months ago . |
| 7 | It depends some students are good and some students are n't . |
| 8 | More generally , the Marre Committee was convinced by the evidence which it received that ignorance was a major cause of people not seeking legal advice when it was appropriate . |
| 9 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 10 | It uses Advanced Micro 's patented programmable macrocell technology and offers up to 16 product terms per output . |
| 11 | He was having it done this afternoon were n't he ? |
| 12 | And he told reporters before the meeting : ‘ I support the IRA 's right to engage in armed struggle — where it wages armed engagements is a matter for itself . ’ |
| 13 | It envisages those visits being as varied as the need — from the person wanting a four-month placement to work with elderly people in Poland or an adoption agency in Jamaica , to someone who is planning a two-week holiday in California who wants to take off a couple of days to spend them visiting the local branch of the US National Association of Social Workers . |
| 14 | It says unlicensed minicabs are the most dangerous form of public transport . |
| 15 | It says young people are the future and unless we invest in them , that future looks bleak . |
| 16 | Now the organisation which owns it says more room is needed to accomodate all the visitors . |
| 17 | In the end , it seemed that sex was all you ever wanted from me . |
| 18 | Thus it seemed that physics was more mature then chemistry , and had already left behind the stage of effervescent and explosive progress in which that science was still so visibly engaged . |
| 19 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 20 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 21 | When , in July 1939 , it seemed that war was inevitable , the Poles decided to give the French and the British the results of their research , as well as two actual Enigma machines . |
| 22 | With his most famous work , the miner 's safety-lamp , it seemed that science was saving lives as well as boosting the economy . |
| 23 | It seemed both sides were optimistic last night that an agreement could be reached . |
| 24 | It seemed another play was about to be abandoned but he finally arrived and leapt up to the platform to make a rather more dignified ‘ Entry into Jerusalem ’ . |
| 25 | However , as it happened this door was not quite closed . |
| 26 | It acknowledged that education was both a consumption and investment . |
| 27 | It sees that marriage is between two unique persons , whose personhood is acknowledged to come from God . |
| 28 | I have been elaborating the point , made much earlier on , that one of the really basic features of human thinking as it affects social action is the polarization of " we " versus " they " . |
| 29 | After St George 's , almost all Unionist candidates ran without making promises to support the coalition ; this did not mean that all of them joined the diehard group when elected , but it showed that coalition was no longer seen to be a winning ticket . |
| 30 | ‘ It showed British football is behind the Germans ' in technique . |