Example sentences of "[pron] be [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion .
2 it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time .
3 My mum thinks I 'm having a great time , as I tell her that I am but it 's a lie , and it has n't got any better .
4 ‘ I am afraid to tell you who I am , because if I tell you who I am you may not like who I am and it is all that I have . ’
5 I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter .
6 It is as much about who I am as it is about how I look , and about how difficult it is for women to separate the two .
7 I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound .
8 I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place .
9 Well I 'm if it 's full price thirty thousand , that 's three thousand pound in n it , near enough ?
10 Hopefully you 'll think again he 's stating , I 'm for it now .
11 ‘ You did n't know I was after it as well , did you ? ’
12 Er no cos I realized that I was that it was totally wrong so I just gave it a miss and went on to something else .
13 Rather than just muddle on as I was before it was highlighted and said well these need watching .
14 We 've just gone through Armistice Day and I was and it 's always made , made me feel there 's something a little bit wrong about Armistice , it seemed more of a glorification in the way
15 I was and it 's never gone away even though I 've put my weight back on .
16 He cites ‘ the interest of scholarship and fair-mindedness ’ , which are as it happens rather grand terms , but is it not rather a matter of free speech than of insinuation or imprecation ?
17 There also arises a more general question , which is whether it is open to this court to exercise the statutory discretion conferred by section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 , or R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) , so as to perfect an invalid order of committal and thereby to continue the imprisonment of a contemnor currently in prison under an invalid order .
18 Although it is obviously accurate to call an incipient spin a stall with a wing-drop , I think that this is trying to avoid the issue , which is that it is really the beginning of a spin and at least a potential spin .
19 To speculate about possible good communists in the GDR is also to ignore the central fact about the country , which is that it is not one .
20 ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth .
21 Several advantages can be identified , perhaps the most important of which is that it would remove the financial disincentive which currently exists for doctors , hospitals and Health Authorities to treat more patients .
22 The legal model has one further method by which it attempts to balance the desirability of going to the managers of the company substantial discretionary power so that they have sufficient flexibility to act effectively , whilst at the same time minimizing the danger that the existence of such discretion creates , which is that it will be used arbitrarily .
23 It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work .
24 This conception of services has its attractions , not least of which is that it appears to distinguish the output of services from that of manufacturing .
25 The issue points to a more fundamental tension at the heart of professional education , which is that it is concerned not only with knowledge and skills but with norms and attitudes .
26 An analysis of the artefact must begin with its most obvious characteristic , which is that it exists as a physically concrete form independent of any individual 's mental image of it .
27 Indeed , the very concrete physicality of objects might lead us to expect quite the opposite conclusion , which is that it is language which organizes the deep unconscious , while objects as visible images are a relatively superficial phenomenon .
28 There is , however , a problem with this theoretical account , which is that it depends , as mentioned , on the validity of the efficient market hypothesis , that is , it assumes that the underlying value of the company 's business is accurately reflected in the market price of its shares .
29 This is a reflection of a more general characteristic of review , which is that it is geared towards the avoidance of mistakes .
30 There is moreover a further difficulty with the thesis which is that it is based upon a dichotomy between fact and value which is hard to sustain .
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