Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It requested donations be sent to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 2 | Specific ideas on which it sought views were that preparatory advice given before the granting of a legal aid order should be claimed and paid for under that order and not the green form scheme , and that welfare benefit entitlement work should either be limited to a fixed fee or excluded altogether . |
| 3 | The remaining 66 are toothed whales and are also termed small cetaceans ( except the sperm whale , which although it has teeth is classified as a great whale ) . |
| 4 | It says councils are often criticised for the poor quality of their letters but the borough council is now encouraging staff to write in plain English . |
| 5 | It says economists are ignoring the difficulties of integration , especially of ethnic Germans with large families and language problems . |
| 6 | Just when it seemed things were going his way again this has happened . ’ |
| 7 | Some stores had started cutting prices before Christmas , but then it seemed customers were keeping their money in their pockets . |
| 8 | The nuclear industry has opened its doors to show how it checks reactors are n't leaking radiation . |
| 9 | But now it appears thieves are being increasingly interested in taking on the hole in the wall and that means bigger and heavier vehicles to do it . |
| 10 | Rather , it seems voters were strongly influenced by their perception of the competence of their own local authority . |
| 11 | I am a librarian , and it seems books are going to be my only companions . |
| 12 | It prevents proceedings being transferred for this reason unless it can be shown that no other method , including transfer to another magistrates ' court , is appropriate and that delay would seriously prejudice the child 's interests . |
| 13 | THE GOVERNMENT told British firms to go on exporting to Iraq , even though it knew parts were being used to build up Saddam 's war machine . |
| 14 | It means actors are allowed by and large to have much more variety of work . ’ |
| 15 | It means children are going to have something familiar to relate to . ’ |
| 16 | It did machines are machines people do n't you think ? |
| 17 | The counterpart of the protection which it gives consumers is the mass of restrictions and requirements which it imposes on those who provide credit . |
| 18 | It said villagers were forming detachments , many of them equipped with automatic rifles and home-made explosives . |
| 19 | Two dentists had been killed in their clinic by a shell just before the convoy arrived , and after it left shots were fired at the medical shift coming from Sarajevo to relieve the surgeons . |
| 20 | The BaByliss Epilady , £37 , works on a similar principle ; a soft metal coil is drawn over the skin and as it vibrates hairs are trapped within the coil and plucked out . |
| 21 | According to Mr Hurst , Trafalgar House has held back money because it claims sub-contractors were responsible for delays in completing the project . |
| 22 | It suggests zones are well defined — which they rarely are . |