Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 2 | No you do n't have to , there 's no , there 's no rea there 's no , there 's no thing that makes someone but it , it if you 're pissed off it does n't , you do n't have to have a special reason to be pissed off you can just be pissed off like you can just be annoyed , it 's like saying you 're annoyed when someone nicks your towels . |
| 3 | Sometimes they see things — people embracing , people dancing , people undressing — and they 're terrified of it happening to me . |
| 4 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 5 | Those who are involved with it want to move to larger premises . |
| 6 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |
| 7 | Having ideas is a pretty inscrutable process — rather well described in about 600 pages by Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation — and is a very personal thing : different people who are good at it go about it in different ways . |
| 8 | As middlemen since then , the Iranians and the Russians have pushed the UN further into the background and , at least until peace really does break out , the Americans have been happy for it to stay there . |
| 9 | Course they must be used to it doing it must n't they ? |
| 10 | Well I think she could be right about it starting off as that , I do n't know . |
| 11 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 12 | By establishing the Centre in an academic institution it will be possible for it to benefit from the other resources of the University and at the same time enable the knowledge gained from the research to be linked directly to social work training . |
| 13 | The Lord Chief Justice had said then that it would be wrong for it to appear that the proposals had the backing of the judges or that they had had any hand in their preparation ; and that it was essential that the judges remained at arm 's length . |
| 14 | then it may be appropriate for it to progress to operating at the skilful stage . |
| 15 | ‘ And Miss Miggs would be glad for it to go because boys have been climbing over her garden wall trying to get it , ’ finished Christine . |
| 16 | This practice is in marked contrast to business organizations where , although the budget is of importance , it is never included in the published financial statements proper ; indeed , it would be unusual for it to appear publicly at all . |
| 17 | This has subsequently been changed , but suggests the view the SFA might take ; it would be logical for it to do so , since a market counterparty of this type is supposed to be someone on the same level as the firm . |
| 18 | It should also be reasonable for it to cover areas where your colleague has influence to attract clients away . |
| 19 | London Underground correctly realised that it would be better for it to make its proposals as a separate Bill , which it has done , and the Bill has now passed through the House . |
| 20 | what we 're likely to be short of it seems to me we could end up being twenty four thousand pounds short at the end of the year . |
| 21 | Erm , would erm Mr sort of look after it and , you know , cos , would he be responsible for it do you think ? |
| 22 | Even if they got to the superleague then were repeatedly humiliated 6 nil I would be happy despite it making them yet more money . |
| 23 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 24 | In the context of medical decisions , it would be perverse for it to act otherwise than in accordance with the advice of its medical staff when that advice was unanimous as it was in this case , the two other paediatric consultants on its staff wholly agreeing with Dr. I. The Official Solicitor , as J. 's guardian ad litem , was of the same view on the strength of the independent advice of Dr. N. |
| 25 | It will frequently be necessary for it to know whether the employee was being advised at any material time and , if so , by whom ; of the extent of the advisers ' knowledge of the facts of the employee 's case ; and of the nature of any advice which they may have given to him . |
| 26 | Textrix — its name is Latin for ‘ weaver ’ — is common wherever biggish stones are available for it to take shelter among and sling its web . |
| 27 | We now come to the second part of our programme , according to our agenda , which has the broad heading , Achiev N C V O Achievements and Intentions , and it 's obviously a natural follow-on from the I er , A G M which we have just completed , at which council received the annual report of N C V O's work for the past year , and its use of the resources which are available to it to carry out that work . |
| 28 | I make no complaint about such information being kept , but I am worried about it appearing on the police national computer when the original request had nothing to do with prostitution . |
| 29 | Hence the strategy of the working class is worked out in terms of the opportunities open to it in a particular situation — or rather in terms of the opportunities that Poulantzas claims would have been open to it had the class itself been quite different . |
| 30 | They should let the people who were responsible for it see that they were beginning to take an active interest in what was the most important issue of the time . |