Example sentences of "[adj] be [conj] it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To return to our earlier example , a consequence of this is that it will not be possible to claim on valid grounds that " Men exist " or rather " actually exist " , reduces to , and can be replaced tout court by " ( Ex ) x is a man . |
| 2 | What he says is that erm you know when he was writing of six hundred and fifty eight seats in parliament , I do n't know how many there are now , but he says if we allowed for people to be paid , then we have as it were six hundred and fifty eight prizes to people 's six hundred and fifty eight jobs for people and he says and this is rather astonishing to hear , to read this is that it will attract adventurism of low class to er parliament if we pay members of parliament . |
| 3 | The problem with this is that it will drive up the exchange rate and thus make it harder for firms to export . |
| 4 | Part of the point of an exercise such as this is that it can be supplemented with a variety of additional linguistic models which enable the analysis to be developed in a number of different directions . |
| 5 | An important consequence of this is that it should lead to a great improvement in the quality of instructions and warnings produced by manufacturers attached to their products ( see Vacwell Engineering Co Ltd v BDH Chemicals Ltd [ 1971 ] 1 QB 88 ) . |
| 6 | It is not certain how important this is but it might influence mood , hormone function , and resistance to infection . |
| 7 | This is because it would be wasteful to store a character array as part of the main lexicon structure . |
| 8 | I think one of the ideas behind the the party chipping in on this is because it would be extremely convenient for people who are popping in at the last minute for |
| 9 | This is because it can cope with printing personal details such as customer name , branch sort code and address — along with the magnetically coded cheque/slip number , bank code and account number , included at the bottom of the cheque — a process that has to be carried out in two separate stages using current techniques . |
| 10 | This is because it can often be easier to sue on a specific warranty than on a general warranty . |
| 11 | This is because it will introduce a disclosure regime which will have to run in parallel to the existing regime under the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 12 | This is because it must include all assets which might be acquired for investment purposes . |
| 13 | In my view this is as it ought to be . |
| 14 | Indeed , this is as it should be . |
| 15 | There seems little likelihood of more resources ( in terms of money ) becoming available , as a proportion of the total GDP ; and perhaps this is as it should be . |
| 16 | Clearly , much room is left for the discretion of the doctor , and this is as it should be , since the assessment of the patient 's prognosis is one of his distinct skills . |
| 17 | This is as it should be under the constitution of the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | Given the bodily likeness of the great apes to ourselves , and what we are told of the similarities of brain-size and structure , sensory apparatus , pregnancy span , and early cognitive competence , this is as it should be . |
| 19 | This is as it should be . |
| 20 | For Conrad , this is as it should be : that see means both to perceive and to comprehend is more than an accident of metaphor . |
| 21 | This is as it should be , so long as these societies and missions depend upon voluntary support . |
| 22 | This is movement in the right direction ; this is as it should be … |
| 23 | Perhaps the most general point to be made about the survey proper is that it should be regarded as an end-point to be reached after careful preparation . |
| 24 | Thus the tendency , normally , is to take the view that a condition of significantly claiming x to be actually existent is that it should be possible to ask " Where is x ? " . |
| 25 | What makes Austen 's work interesting is that it can never be reduced entirely to simple analytical frameworks . |
| 26 | This suggests that what Mill may have meant in saying that one pleasure is of higher quality than another is that it may be pleasanter without there being a quantifiable relation between them , in terms of which there must be some amount of the second which is as worth while , in hedonic terms , as the first . |
| 27 | The British intent when signing this was that it would finally deliver the free-trading and outward-looking ‘ home ’ market . |
| 28 | The second is that it can obviously vary from very poor to very good , and an individual 's welfare will be different at different times . |
| 29 | The first was that a Labour government was going to rely on economic growth to finance its increases in public expenditure , the second was that it would ban fox-hunting . |
| 30 | The one certain prediction made by her astrologer , Felix Lyle as we discussed her life and character one balmy summer 's evening in August 1991 was that it would be a tortuous path . |