Example sentences of "[coord] it be [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse . |
| 2 | Norwich — and it 's good to see it happening . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 've also earned respect from fellow professionals — just like Norwich — and it 's good to see it happening . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I think the better the players are treated in these respects , the more enthusiastic is their response to the challenges before them , ’ points out McGilligan , ‘ Let's face it , the whole sport has become more professional off the field — and it 's good to see it — so I do n't think too many people would begrudge players a few wee perks . ’ |
| 5 | Of course , being down to earth is one of Pam 's greatest strengths , and it 's good to know she 's back on track and that we 'll still be able to laugh with her for a while yet . |
| 6 | Like most graduates , my student days were a very important part of my life and it 's good to feel I ‘ belong ’ again . |
| 7 | Yes I mean Stan missed Wednesday and I think we missed him and it 's good to have him back today it it will be a very difficult game . |
| 8 | They 're very pleased at that because I mean they obviously found it to be useful , erm we proved it to be useful and it 's nice to see them all taking on this responsibility now , now and doing it , because that 's all progress . |
| 9 | in normal everyday things which I would n't otherwise have been aware of , and he 's been someone to have arguments with about science , and it 's nice to have someone who understands what you 're going on about . |
| 10 | There are 3,000 species , however , and it 's impossible to tell which this is . |
| 11 | At the university here we have got two or three groups in which we do know how to do that and especially the work that I 'm associated with , again the arts undergraduates , we have developed over a period now of something like six years , ways of giving them confidence , and it 's amazing to see what happens . |
| 12 | And it 's great to see it carry on . |
| 13 | There is a major difference and it 's easy to see he was not at all well . |
| 14 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 15 | Encrusting types spread onto the substrate , and it 's interesting to watch them producing root-like processes which then grip the rock or sand beneath . |
| 16 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 17 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 18 | But Tracey knows you 're dedicated and it 's silly giving it up . |
| 19 | It 's just I do n't feel the need to have them round me any more , and I think that suits them and it 's silly to make them pretend the contrary . ’ |
| 20 | New season 's potatoes offer a promise of summer bounty , and it 's fun to make them the focus of a feast , as in the following recipes . |
| 21 | In this more temperate climate , we can see that rock 's estate is a grand one , and it 's tempting to tramp its grounds — necessary , perhaps , if only so as to have somewhere to ‘ go ’ . |
| 22 | It 's hard to decide what you can do if you do n't know how much money you can get , and it 's hard to decide what something will cost if you have n't a clear idea of what you want to do . |
| 23 | ‘ He is one of the best players I have ever worked with and it 's hard to recall him having a bad game . |
| 24 | ‘ Actually , we do n't like to talk about her much , ’ says the Other One , ‘ because she 's ‘ biggish ’ , and it 's difficult hiding her away in videos . ’ |
| 25 | Well you ca n't create stability , the Communist Party ca n't sort of I mean cos that 's what , sort of hindering long term investments and that how peasants do n't feel that how that things are secure , they and it 's difficult to see what the Communist Party could 've done |
| 26 | However , it 's not easy to drive nails exactly where you want them , especially into walls , and it 's difficult to get them out again once they 're in . |
| 27 | And it 's supposed to keep me from reaching out for you in the night , wrapping my arms around you , letting my lips tangle in your hair … ’ |
| 28 | It 's a sort of slight relaxing and an aphrodisiac and it 's supposed to help your headaches . |
| 29 | It is unusual for a small town like Middleton to produce two successful bands at the same time , playing similar music , and it is instructive to compare their very differing outlooks and fortunes . |
| 30 | These three questions clearly overlap , but can be treated as conceptually separate , and it is helpful to disentangle them in this way at least initially . |