Example sentences of "it be [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that Labour is going to choose between a Scotsman and a New Zealander for its new leader , it would be less offensive and more appropriate if it were to adopt an All Black thistle as its logo . |
| 2 | That that used to be mentioned between us er er a few times , I can remember it being mentioned a few times . |
| 3 | It 's believed the same gang have raided at least three homes … and they may be linked with a series of other burglaries . |
| 4 | That is an opted out school as against the standard state school , which is subject to the overall policies of the Local Education Authority , and indeed it is funded by the Local Education Authority through a formula , and the amount of money that is put into that formula will obviously affect the amount of money the school has to spend , so it 's providing the same range of education within the National Curriculum , but it is not beholden to the Local Authority — that 's the basic difference . |
| 5 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 6 | I have to say Chairman that I find that the suggested resolution of six is totally adequate to deal with and I , I have read er the motion proposed by through a couple of times , and you know , it 's having a few frills here and there and some are , I , I , I find this one thing er more than adequate er to deal with the situation and er I would move that resolution formally . |
| 7 | It 's becoming an all to familar story for the police , in some parts of the region car related crimes have reached epidemic porportions , in the Thames Valley region for instance , there were 40,000 car- related crimes last year . |
| 8 | We 'll call it that for now , no-one 's actually voting at the moment but it , it 's covers the same thing you see . |
| 9 | It 's doing the same things — boredom . |
| 10 | It 's making the most of what you 've got . |
| 11 | Until recently , there have been no established codec standards and one system can only speak to another if it is using the same compression-decompression algorithms . |
| 12 | Although IBM says a gateway is possible , it is taking the former approach , and the plan is gradually to convert its most important system software to the architecture . |
| 13 | This enables pertinent Objections to be lodged if it is felt the same are relevant . |
| 14 | It is following the same eclectic exhibition programme in Berlin , where prints by Willem de Kooning and photographs by contemporary Spanish photographer , Alberto Sommer are currently on view . |
| 15 | Already it is having the same effect on Britain . |
| 16 | ‘ But it is doing the same vital work in deep space that Captain Cook and his colleagues did in the oceans when they classified longitudes and meridians . ’ |
| 17 | It is doing the same with another original in October . |
| 18 | It is making the most of its favoured situation and gaining an increasing reputation as a bathing place and holiday centre . |
| 19 | Today , it is fighting the same war , with the same leaders , as 20 years ago . |
| 20 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 21 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 22 | It was debated no fewer than five times on the Floor of the House and was given long and detailed scrutiny by a Select Committee over 26 days . |
| 23 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
| 24 | I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized . |
| 25 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 26 | But it was followed a few months later by sort of mini riot . |
| 27 | However , I changed my mind about the seriousness of Denning 's pronouncements when it was declared a few weeks later that the case of the Birmingham Six was to be reconsidered . |
| 28 | It was known that a change was taking place and Perhaps it was felt the more because of the very success of the Concert ; humanitarian impulses and liberal assumptions had disguised the fact , axiomatic to professional diplomats , that the interests of states often conflicted . |
| 29 | Only a few , such as the Royal Bristol Volunteers carried on , and in that instance it was to guard the many Napoleonic prisoners of war in Bristol . |
| 30 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |