Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It adds that inflation is likely to be higher and domestic demand slower than it predicted in its last report six months ago . |
| 3 | It depends some students are good and some students are n't . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 6 | He was having it done this afternoon were n't he ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now the organisation which owns it says more room is needed to accomodate all the visitors . |
| 9 | In the end , it seemed that sex was all you ever wanted from me . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | With his most famous work , the miner 's safety-lamp , it seemed that science was saving lives as well as boosting the economy . |
| 15 | It seemed both sides were optimistic last night that an agreement could be reached . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So it appears that completion was around that time although the date is not er , is not certain . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 27 | It seems that androgyny is psychologically and socially valuable for women ( Jones et al . |
| 28 | Now , after experiment rather than speculation , it seems that stabilimenta are really early warning landmarks for birds . |
| 29 | In this case , it seems that Creole is being used , perhaps with its " jocular " symbolic value , to comment on the baby and its " cute " activities . |
| 30 | It seems that education is not even essential to happiness . |