Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A child who is continually told it has low status is likely to grow into a low-status adult . |
| 4 | It adds that inflation is likely to be higher and domestic demand slower than it predicted in its last report six months ago . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 7 | It uses Advanced Micro 's patented programmable macrocell technology and offers up to 16 product terms per output . |
| 8 | He was having it done this afternoon were n't he ? |
| 9 | Now the organisation which owns it says more room is needed to accomodate all the visitors . |
| 10 | In the end , it seemed that sex was all you ever wanted from me . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With his most famous work , the miner 's safety-lamp , it seemed that science was saving lives as well as boosting the economy . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | However , as it happened this door was not quite closed . |
| 18 | It acknowledged that education was both a consumption and investment . |
| 19 | It sees that marriage is between two unique persons , whose personhood is acknowledged to come from God . |
| 20 | 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 " . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ It showed British football is behind the Germans ' in technique . |
| 23 | The terms in which it expressed this decision are to be found in a letter dated 23 October 1991 addressed to the plaintiffs ' solicitors and written by Mr. A. D. Farries , a principal in the Crown Prosecutor Fraud Investigation Group . |
| 24 | No you 're not put it down , go away that 's for Benjamin 's birthday , I do n't want it getting dirty while were having er tea |
| 25 | So it appears that completion was around that time although the date is not er , is not certain . |
| 26 | Amid talk of rebuilding and reorganising resources it appears suitable material is in short supply . |
| 27 | There is a great healing tradition within the evangelical Charismatic Movement , and those who adhere to it believe this healing is about seeking out the devil and ridding the possessed of this influence . |
| 28 | Innocence may be the first casualty of war , as the posters for the film boldly quoted , but it seems good taste is the first casualty in computer-game marketing . |
| 29 | However , it seems that leave is refused for between a quarter and a third of all AJRs , and this might suggest that the leave requirement is performing some other function such as keeping the number of pending AJRs down so that the delay between the granting of leave and the hearing is not too great . |
| 30 | Instead , it seems that money is to be spent in an almost futile attempt to attract to the bay , at a time of recession , companies and start-up projects that , by rights , should be located elsewhere . |