Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] it [be] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 2 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |
| 3 | And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning : |
| 4 | And so it 's for you it 's for me , for the person sitting beside you and behind , it is for every one of us ! |
| 5 | It 's for you it 's for you . |
| 6 | sense in which it 's in their interest not to breach this because you wo n't give them the material they need |
| 7 | No ; I could n't stay close to whatever it was in him that liked it so much . |
| 8 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 9 | He does not , however , retract his proposal that the precepts of the imagist manifesto are still the best rules of thumb for ‘ the neophyte ’ , the beginner in his ‘ prentice-work ; and for what it is worth my own experience in the workshop certainly bears that out . |
| 10 | For what it 's worth my own advice would be that we I erm as you remember , increased the rental for the er coffee rooms from four thousand pounds when I er took over the post of chief executive and er to seven thousand five hundred in July eighty nine and we 've increased that yearly to a sum of twenty one thousand one hundred and fifty pounds per annum er from the first of August nineteen ninety one . |
| 11 | For what it was worth I asked her if she knew of a Ewen Mackay who might once have lived at Otters ' Bay , but she shook her head |
| 12 | ‘ For us it is like your Christmas Eve . |