Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Macmillan was reputed to have defended his decision in a sentence which is likely to be authentic because it has the Macmillan ring : ‘ I thought we had had enough of Martha and it was time for some Mary. , |
| 2 | I consider this tendency to be dangerous because it undermines the great eighteenth-century idea of the unity of mankind , an idea that is so menaced anyway by racism and other movements of the same sort . |
| 3 | Barthes is here influenced , no doubt , by the founder of deconstruction , Jacques Derrida , who argued that contrary to the traditional view that speech is the exemplary case of language in use , and writing an artificial substitute for speech , writing ought to be privileged because it exposes the fallacious metaphysics of presence , of the autonomy of the subject , which speech encourages . |
| 4 | It would never be comfortable while it had the square Canton-wood furniture . |
| 5 | Section 8 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act provides that a clause in a contract which purports to exclude or restrict liability for misrepresentation will only be effective if it satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |
| 6 | On the settlement day the value of the forward contract could be negative since it equals the current price of the stock minus the prearranged forward price . |
| 7 | p must of course be negative because it represents the space-charge density of electrons . |
| 8 | It may however be deemed to be incorrect if it provides the wrong gear ratios . |
| 9 | The system involves an obligation to provide evidence of having sought help from charities , friends and relations , and even if this can be provided and the request deemed a reasonable one , no payment will be forthcoming if it involves the breach of cash limits . |
| 10 | Washington could not but be uneasy when it heard the British ( and later the French ) hinting ( and sometimes stating more explicitly ) that their nuclear force might be used to trigger American use of nuclear weapons in an East–West confrontation . |
| 11 | The zeal will be fruitful if it makes the chain of human errors harder to repeat ; fruitless if it seeks the mare 's nest of perfect safety , particularly through technology . |
| 12 | If the cross was black , the octopus would be shocked as it touched the crab ; if white , it would not . |
| 13 | It may be that the only times the parents show joint concern is when the child misbehaves and so the child continues to be difficult as it keeps the family together . |
| 14 | If that were so then what I say would be true if it had the appropriate backing , false otherwise . |
| 15 | But as development times lengthen to six or seven years , so too do the chances that a new model will be obsolete before it leaves the drawing board . |