Example sentences of "be the [noun] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most important aspects of bereavement help is perhaps enabling a grieving person to talk about their negative thoughts as well as their sad thoughts ( which are the ones it is presumed we want to hear ) . |
| 2 | This seems to be the way it is with men and women ; buckets of water from a well , one drawing deep while the other is empty , and so on , as if there is a physical law governing the amount of emotional nourishment available to a couple . |
| 3 | This may provide another justification for the anthropic principle , for if all the histories are possible , then so long as we exist in one of the histories , we may use the anthropic principle to explain why the universe is found to be the way it is . |
| 4 | What is suggested is that the supposed right to self-determination may not be the creature it is thought to be . |
| 5 | ‘ This being the case it is clear that there is a need for greater intervention by members of the team before black children are excluded . |
| 6 | At present , everything that Hewlett-Packard is doing looks right : it has won itself a reputation of taking better care of its customers , an example being the way it is not forcing its MPE users to move to Unix , instead letting them migrate at their own pace . |
| 7 | It is as a result of being so constructed , and of being the figure it is , that a circle has its characteristic properties . |
| 8 | With 33% of Britons likely to get cancer and with cancer being the fear it is , I expected the queue to stretch to Weston-super-Mare and beyond . |
| 9 | But if this be the case it is for Parliament , not for the judiciary , to decide whether any changes should be made to the law as stated in the Acts , and , if so , what are the precise limits that ought to be imposed upon the immunity from liability for torts committed in the course of taking industrial action . |
| 10 | ‘ If this be the case it is for Parliament , not for the judiciary , to decide whether any changes should be made to the law as stated in the Acts . ’ |
| 11 | the abolition of profit making and democratic control mark out cooperation as nothing less than a revolution , so fundamental , vital , and transforming is the change it is effecting in the economic structure of society … |
| 12 | ‘ Kylie feels she should have the copyright over her image , that is the way it is in Australia and that is the way she thinks it should be everywhere . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's wrong , wrong , wrong , but that is the way it is . |
| 14 | ‘ Strong ’ formulations of the principle claim that the universe is the way it is in order for us to be here to observe it . |
| 15 | Held and Krieger ( 1983 : 487 ) comment that , for Offe ‘ the most significant feature of the state is the way it is enmeshed in the contradictions of capitalism ’ . |
| 16 | The distinctive property of cultural behaviour , as ethologists use the term , is the way it is passed on from one generation to the next . |
| 17 | The new inflationary model was a good attempt to explain why the universe is the way it is . |
| 18 | This is the way it is used in the following example , but the pronunciation of the word is exactly as in LE : You know how white people stay . |
| 19 | Assertion you 're clear about what you want , you ca n't there 's no need to get get up about it there 's no need to worry about it this is what you want and this is the way it is , you do n't have to shout , you just have to stick to your point . |
| 20 | If this is the way it is going to go the public will reject it , so it 's got to be done in a very humane and very human way . |
| 21 | When the product is the supplier it is naive to suppose that the same rules apply . |
| 22 | The sun is the size it is because it is so hot . |
| 23 | They should be constantly asking why a bottle is the shape it is and whether the ingredients come from a whale or from a natural substance of which there is great abundance . |
| 24 | The course of the boundary should be examined critically and questions asked as to why it follows the features it does , what sort of land is enclosed , and why the land unit is the shape it is . |
| 25 | Where this is the case it is interesting to note that the Access to Personal Files ( Social Services ) Regulations 1989 require local authorities to disclose as much information as they can by omitting names and sensitive information or by other means . |
| 26 | Another major advantage is the insight it is capable of yielding into the social and communicative norms of the community . |
| 27 | The starting point for any document is the audience it is aimed at . |
| 28 | First there 's the idea it is a place where people live . |
| 29 | That 's the way it is . |
| 30 | At least that 's the way it is with me , if I can see something in operation I can understand it far more quickly than when someone tries to describe it ’ |