Example sentences of "it [is] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's calculated risk , but it can be done . ’ |
| 2 | Frenetic close-season transfer activity is new to most rugby countries , but in South Africa it 's become part of the furniture … |
| 3 | He says it 's become part of Cheltenham 's heritage . |
| 4 | Thousands of us have been laid low already with a flu virus which has surprised the experts by the speed with which it 's hit Scotland . |
| 5 | ‘ But I always watch chimps alone and it 's spoilt Gombe for me . ’ |
| 6 | I think it 's made life a lot richer for us . |
| 7 | ‘ I know it 's wrong , Joe , when it 's been a tragedy for so many people , but it 's made life easier for us . |
| 8 | More accurately , it 's made things worse , for it was pretty seriously upset anyway . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's made contact with something down there . ’ |
| 10 | My belief is that Mana wanted to marry Tiare — maybe for the inheritance — and it 's made Aleena very unhappy . |
| 11 | It 's understood Mr Culley was devoted to animals and kept them everywhere he could find space . |
| 12 | It 's understood Mr Bryan had been thinking of returning to Painswick this weekend to escape the hoarde of newsmen beseigning him in London … |
| 13 | It 's believed Professor Brown was working inside the crater when there was an explosion . |
| 14 | It 's believed Robinson was searched before he left prison . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's dated July 15th — just over a year ago — and he writes : ‘ Today father told me something about himself which I can scarcely believe . |
| 16 | It 's hoped parents will encourage their children to eat school meals and there 's a TV advertising campaign to back them up . |
| 17 | Now it 's hoped laser technology will protect customers and keep the fraudsters at bay . |
| 18 | But the new nursery is not just for staff … it 's hoped passengers will also make use of the facilities . |
| 19 | In some cases it 's hoped patients will be in and out of hospital within a day . |
| 20 | I see there 's something of Arthur Seaton in him , only in him it 's turned upside down . |
| 21 | It 's seen service as a transporter in every action the airforce has been involved in since 1967 . |
| 22 | The technique is a long way from being proved but it 's given hope to thousands |
| 23 | ‘ But it 's done good already . |
| 24 | It 's said tenants cause condensation , by boiling kettles . |
| 25 | It 's said John Wayne started his acting career as an extra , so when you next watch Inspector Morse , look out for the people of Oxford who could be stars of the making . |
| 26 | Water 's been right up over the path two days or more , I reckon it 's loosened part o ’ the foundations under here . ’ |
| 27 | The poll tax , and it 's planned replacement the council tax have been targetted by Labour in the general election campaign . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's reached muscles I did n't know I had . ’ |
| 29 | It 's reinforced Swindon 's sence of identity as a railway town . |
| 30 | But it 's provoked scores of complaints from people angry about the constant noise from RAF Transport planes . |