Example sentences of "be [conj] it [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be because it gets me out of the tent in the middle of the night to stand and contemplate the untroubled majesty of The Plough . |
| 2 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 3 | The advantage of this self-imposed discipline is that it forces you deliberately to do all that is involved in learning from experience and at the same time markedly increases the lessons learned from your various activities . |
| 4 | Properly speaking , the force ( and also the weakness ) of a personal testimony is that it tells us as much about the person who believes as about the content of what he believes . |
| 5 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 6 | An interesting consequence of taking this much looser view of determinism is that it brings us much closer to the classical position . |
| 7 | The consequence of sin is that it cuts us off from others . |
| 8 | The way I viewed training was that it got me out of the house . |
| 9 | She had to admit , however , that the main reason that she had phoned the Symses and answered their appeal so promptly was that it took her out of the house , and away from the strain of being with Mark in public while the incident of the night before still divided them . |
| 10 | In fact , one of the things that had pleased her about her daughter staying in London was that it kept her away from Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 11 | The other reason she had disappeared with the juniors was that it kept her out of Jack 's way . |