Example sentences of "to be [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 2 | In other words , publishing commitments have to be substantial and it does not take much to sap confidence when the risk is so high . |
| 3 | I would like to know why this policy is that er that you did n't consider this a venue of body building to be suitable if it 's not erm it 's gon na put bums on seats and generate income to towards the trust why not ? . |
| 4 | Total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all is unlikely to be reasonable where it occurs because of acts or omissions within the control of the party in default , which are caused by negligence , incompetence or inadvertence but not wilful default ( " inadvertent default " ) . |
| 5 | To be effective , an innovation has to be simple and it has to be focused . |
| 6 | Does n't have to be current but it usually is . |
| 7 | Michael Codron had reason to be grateful that it was , especially when in January 1958 it transferred for a third time — or even a fifth , if the pre-West End runs at the Theatre Royal Brighton , and the original Cambridge version , were taken into account — to the Garrick Theatre . |
| 8 | ‘ We all want F1 to be successful but it 's going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 9 | Whereas things appeared stable in Britain at that time , overseas there existed events of change — in Italy there existed no unity and much of the land was occupied by the forces of Austria , but they were removed and in 1833 , a united Italy was advocated under Papal rule , but that proved not to be successful and it would be some years before Garibaldi was able to form the Italian National Association for the Unification of Italy which only achieved its objective in 1871 . |
| 10 | Benazir Bhutto looks to be strong but it 's a coalition of convenience not conviction , in a country where politics follows the rules of war , opposition means nothing , winning is everything . |
| 11 | A syllable will tend to be prominent if it contains a vowel that is different in quality from neighbouring vowels . |
| 12 | Physical abuse is not known to be extensive and it may be felt that it has been excessively discussed in the context of ‘ dependence and independence ’ . |
| 13 | There is a no we must n't , no , things are n't too bad , just leave it alone it 'll be okay , and somebody coming in and saying no that 's not the way you should look at it , that there is provocation if you 're gon na have a revolution it has got to be violent and it is right to be violent . |
| 14 | ‘ It was supposed to be perfect but it was a total nightmare , ’ said Brian , 24 , who booked the £666 honeymoon a year in advance . |
| 15 | No doubt there will be an extensive scrutiny from those who expect everything to be perfect but it passes pretty well from my point of view . |
| 16 | No justification therefore exists for treating subfertile women with contraceptive drugs , and the endometriosis should be considered to be coincidental unless it has caused tubal and ovarian damage that requires repair . |
| 17 | For example , he thought that BT should be allowed to offer entertainment services but seemed to be unaware that it could and had applied for cable franchises . |
| 18 | ‘ language or conduct is not said to be insulting unless it is intended to show contempt or disesteem , or is understood by the hearer or observer to show this attitude . ’ |
| 19 | Multicultural mathematics is unlikely to be tokenistic if it can be justified in terms of mathematical purposes , linguistic purposes and anti-racist purposes . |
| 20 | A restraint is considered to be available if it is not being used by another child or adult . |
| 21 | My Lord the started sum of money originally , sixty thousand pounds was the total loan and there were further overdraught facilities and and it 's the plaintiff 's case that without it it was simply not going to be manageable and as a result of that having thought carefully about erm , position it is his case that he rang Peter , told him that there were major problems in the financing of the deal and asked him if he could get him out of the contract because the finance he anticipated was no longer going to be available and it was his case that Peter advised him that there was no way out because contracts had been exchanged , er Mr was told very clearly that he was committed legally now to the deal and that he 'd better try and rearrange some finances since clearly they were moving towards er the completion date . |
| 22 | It can take as much as six months for all required figures to be available and it is usual to issue a provisional index six to seven weeks after the end of the month in question and revise this later . |
| 23 | John would have heard enough of you on the phone to be convinced that it was a erm right for you to have a chat with , could |
| 24 | He says that at first clients refused to believe it could be done so fast — some need to be convinced that it 's not just science fiction . |
| 25 | She says there is a need for a better east-west link.But I remain to be convinced that it 's a 3 lane highway , driving its way through Oxfordshire and Wiltshire . |
| 26 | Area MPs have still to be convinced that it is the sporting fishery which butters their electoral bread . |
| 27 | Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith . |
| 28 | It may however be deemed to be incorrect if it provides the wrong gear ratios . |
| 29 | Another counterexample proposed by Stoyanov ( 1979 ) has proved to be incorrect as it does not satisfy the required boundary conditions ( see Section 10.2 ) . |
| 30 | A decision will not be held to be unlawful because it is ‘ unreasonable ’ in the ordinary , non-legal sense . |