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

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31 So what it 's alright .
32 So what it 's talking about there is how you can actually define a group .
33 So what it 's , how much will that be ?
34 and they assured us there would be a bit incorporated for audio description , so what it was , was half of us entrance into the lighted sound box , cut off , it was a , sort of triangular , but erm , to see out the window
35 So what it was th ch ha the chain could n't give up you see .
36 For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things .
37 Once this was conceded , the next step would be to move to their becoming semi-independent public bodies ( much the same might happen to hospitals and other public services ) , with the ‘ freedom to manage ’ without regard to political pressure from local electors or ‘ vested interests ’ ( trade unions and professionals ) and the freedom to cut labour costs ( the main item in service budgets ) by paying people only what it was necessary to pay them in that local market .
38 That 's just me it 's that if your first name , although I 'll probably cross that out .
39 Erm what 's the sort of real shape , it 's not just you it 's everyone sort of doing GCSEs at the moment , erm I 'm getting this quite a lot .
40 I turned round , knowing already who it was , with sinking heart .
41 Amazing , is n't it — despite all those contamination problems that have hit various recent models of IBM Corp 's mainframe disk drives , according to Electronic News , the things still boast a mean time between failures of two to three million hours — they 're must be a lot of irked users wondering just who it is that is happily storing and retrieving data on their hours .
42 Just who it is and age , Yorkshire and what they are , friend , daughter or if you 're English or not or
43 Before the meeting took place , Pat Bellis took Kingston to one side to enquire just who it was who was spreading the ‘ split ’ rumours in Manchester .
44 He knew exactly who it was .
45 Essentially , everything is much the same as in the classical template except that in all probability it will be pretty well apparent to the reader quite soon who it is who has committed the murder .
46 She 's just her it 's just that
47 ‘ That 's just it It 's a peak of about 3,700 metres above the Po Valley — nothing special in itself .
48 At its best such a book will not only provide a satisfying solution to the murder puzzle which it still must have , but also at the same time the solution of the mystery should reveal finally what it was the novel had to say .
49 With her heart thudding so loudly that she felt sure he must feel it through her ribcage , she took another gulp of tea and waited , knowing he must speak , explain somehow what it was that had suddenly flared between them again .
50 He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully .
51 I ca n't see your face when you sit in that comer , ’ said Bella. ‘ — You thought the world of that Simon , did n't you ? — I know just what it 's like .
52 Speaking as a single parent who was left with children of twelve and eight , it is very hard and I often think it would be a good thing if social workers were better able to explain to young girls who are left with babies , just what it 's going to be like .
53 And it 's quite interesting to , to go and look at that road now and see just what it 's like .
54 Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote .
55 Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’
56 For the first time , the system will be capable of identifying just what it is doing ( activities ) and what each element of the process costs .
57 If we listen carefully to the process of critical doubt and then examine just what it is that is pronounced indubitable , we must surely ask : but why stop here ?
58 Spilling the knots from one 's entrails out onto paper is n't likely to make a poem or story that others will want to read , but many writers do have to go through the ‘ spilling ’ process in order to know just what it is they have to hammer into shape .
59 However , for us to improve our ability to control corporate crime , it is first necessary to grasp just what it is we might want to control .
60 ‘ Bring her in to me , I 'll soon sort out just what it is she wants , ’ Emily said , rising to her feet and shaking the creases from her crinoline gown .
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