Example sentences of "be [conj] they [vb base] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of longitudinal studies are that they make it possible to study change over time , though as a series of snapshots rather than as a continuous process . |
| 2 | cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary . |
| 3 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating , and the proof of people skills is that they make it as likely as possible that we achieve our objectives with people . |
| 4 | To the extent that Europeans know of this Oxbridge dominance , my experience is that they regard it with some satisfaction ( they have generally heard of Oxford and Cambridge ) , but that their satisfaction changes to complacency when they reflect upon what they believe to be the uniquely class-ridden structure of English society . |
| 5 | The problem for the media is that they find it very difficult to secure agreement across the political spectrum as to what would be accepted as impartially presented news . |
| 6 | One problem that a lot of knitters have , to start with , is that they find it difficult to free the weaving yarn from the sinker plate when changing it from one side of the sinker plate to the other . |
| 7 | I think the idea is that Sun is that they see it as somebody 's gone poof poof want to be to write quickly and they would argue that a Sun reader has a sharp attention span . |
| 8 | But one thing about our Asian men is that they think it a matter of pride that their women must not go out to work . |
| 9 | I mean the thing that they latch onto all the time is that they think it 's perfectly reasonable that they should compliment a young woman and so on , and I do see , Bill , that this is a problem because these men have been brought up like this and they think of themselves as being polite and courteous and , you know , a little flirtatious and doing all the things that actually they were taught women like and is rather nice . |
| 10 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |
| 11 | It 's not that they 're fussy , it 's because they think it 's wrong . |
| 12 | That 's because they see it as a threat to their political authority as the only representative of the people . |
| 13 | ‘ But if it 's as they say it is and everything goes smoothly , David will only miss four or five matches at the most . |
| 14 | Their goal against Grimsby midweek , reminded us just how good they are when they get it together . |
| 15 | You know they do But anyway the point I was making was that they call it distant intimacy . |