Example sentences of "[adv] it be [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked tiny , no more than an emergency shelter , which of course was all it was intended to be . |
| 2 | Oh yes anything that happened down the glen or way was heard that from the pack man so it was bound to be true . |
| 3 | So it was designed to be attractive to look at , but with curves , ovals and an absence of straight lines to make it difficult to swim in . |
| 4 | It is not made clear whether or not it is intended to be exhaustive . |
| 5 | Weapon is given a wide definition under section 2 of the Canadian Criminal Code and includes ‘ anything that is designed to be used as a weapon or anything that a person uses or intends to use as a weapon , whether or not it is designed to be used as a weapon . ’ |
| 6 | Usually it is assumed to be FALSE . |
| 7 | The United States thus finds itself in a no-win situation : the more it is seen to be intervening against him , the more it is likely to reinforce his position . |
| 8 | ‘ When we started off it was meant to be a serious underground label and we thought we 'd just do a couple of thousand . |
| 9 | Now it is set to be the unofficial mascot of staff at Harper and Harper furniture , Northgate , who have taken the bird to a taxidermist to be stuffed . |
| 10 | Well it 's bound to be damp . |
| 11 | Well it 's bound to be something weird I suppose . |
| 12 | Well it 's bound to be hot I 've just made it . |
| 13 | Well it 's bound to be is n't it ? |
| 14 | Well it 's meant to be the fucking opposite and it is the fucking opposite . |
| 15 | A century ago it was considered to be as good as the Normande , and better as a butcher 's beast , but a combination of war and frontier changes led to its deterioration ; it was crossed with Danish Red as well as Belgian Red to form the Flemish Red , which is usually whole red , though some have mottled or blazed faces . |
| 16 | Here look inside here it 's meant to be bonsai trees but I do n't know whether I 'll ever remem materialize . |
| 17 | That 's how it 's meant to be . |
| 18 | So if you can go back to the original Hebrew of that particular verse then you 'll find out how it 's meant to be said , because a normal bible vision would n't read God 's in there , it would read equals and the name of the Lord , will be saved you see |
| 19 | Details of the secondary booklet and of how it is intended to be used are given in Chapter 4 , which presents case studies of two secondary schools making use of it . |
| 20 | This is probably the case since children do things the way that feels natural to them without worrying unduly how it is meant to be done . |
| 21 | Two stages are involved , the reason for which is neatly summarized in this quotation from C.S. Lewis : The first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is — what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used . |
| 22 | To decide whether it is successful , we have to know how it was intended to be used and what it was expected to achieve . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't see how it was meant to be funny . |
| 24 | This was n't how it was meant to be . |
| 25 | If the word is not found then it is said to be misspelled , so either correction is attempted , or it is returned to the user for verification . |
| 26 | There is a tendency to look upon literature , particularly capital L ‘ Literature ’ , as something separate from life , but once literature is thought of in terms of story-telling and story-making , then it is seen to be part of a common and seemingly-essential human activity . |
| 27 | The grain from hulled wheat is steamed until partly cooked , then it is dried before being ground . |
| 28 | If perception has to be triggered off by what is actually there , then it is constrained to be true . |
| 29 | If the plant does not grow above the water surface , then it is known to be in the ‘ submerse ’ condition . |
| 30 | Maybe , but then it 's allowed to be . |