Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In it are included graphic re-workings of that Medieval theme by twentieth-century masters such as George Grosz , Otto Dix , Max Beckmann , Kathe Kollwitz and Alfred Kubin . |
| 2 | They are interested in why they are paying such a high price for a service and why the company or companies providing it are making enormous profits when they are in a protected monopoly . |
| 3 | It could n't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs . |
| 4 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |
| 5 | It 's affecting other animals too . |
| 6 | I would n't know whether that is pregnant or not , it 's taking deep breaths |
| 7 | Now it 's hoped future generations will leave statistics like that behind . |
| 8 | It 's not a miracle cure , but it 's hoped American trials prove it can slow down the onset of Aids . |
| 9 | It 's done funny things to my head . |
| 10 | Yeah , I mean it it 's a home office ruling that it 's allowing local authorities to eat the fee . |
| 11 | And it 's called Fancy Goods |
| 12 | It 's called Fancy Goods . |
| 13 | It 's called Green Fields . |
| 14 | It tells you ho it 's called potential volts , measures potential . |
| 15 | And it 's called enhanced careers guidance . |
| 16 | It 's using natural resources . |
| 17 | Cleared , were dispersed , and what have you got next , anyway after that , that that 's obviously a very problematic thing , because it 's using poetic images which are very difficult to move into modern standard English , but what have we got for the rain of heaven please ? |
| 18 | They will actually responsibility of Local Government and er we 've tried to put in here something that even Conservative Councillors could support , even though it 's attacking Conservative Ministers , cos they must actually believe in Local Government to actually serve on Local Government , one would think , but er , but th the problems of under-funding are th could be very serious . |
| 19 | They will actually responsibility of Local Government and er we 've tried to put in here something that even Conservative Councillors could support , even though it 's attacking Conservative Ministers , cos they must actually believe in Local Government to actually serve on Local Government , one would think , but er , but th the problems of under-funding are th could be very serious . |
| 20 | It 's entitled Fair Do's : Studies in the Perception of Social Justice — the kind of thing Lynn used to buy before I met her . |
| 21 | Reportedly it 's having informal discussions with the COSE crew . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's having green eyes . ’ |
| 23 | necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class . |
| 24 | It 's sagging middle-aged mothers who need to feel comfortable with their bodies , not well-lit millionairesses . |
| 25 | Oh it 's going great guns that I 've got Len coming |
| 26 | Said oh it 's doing alright thanks . |
| 27 | At the moment paid employment ( even if it 's making rubber ducks for export ) brings status and income , whereas work , which we all do to keep going and may well do voluntarily in our communities , carries neither income nor status . |
| 28 | The only useable machinery left in the workshops has been wrecked … and it 's thought industrial saboteurs could be to blame . |
| 29 | It 's thought bad manners not to offer a visitor a night of passion after tramping round the icy far north . |
| 30 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |