Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Panel interviews can be rather intimidating as it is easy to get a feeling of ‘ just me against all of them ’ . |
| 2 | Since the management is accountable and is producing the information , it would be rather surprising if it were otherwise . |
| 3 | The problem list is likely to be most useful if it has been jointly formulated by the patient and the therapist ( p. 70 ) . |
| 4 | Quite clearly , while I 'm not prepared to put a a figure on the contribution that conversions are going to make to the period to two thousand and six , I 'll be most surprised if it was a long way different from what has been taking place in the past . |
| 5 | You become excited when you discover an entry from a brand leader but descend into despondency when you find that large , marketing-led organisations can be incredibly sloppy when it comes to presenting written reports . |
| 6 | This early collaboration with the adviser Proved to be mutually beneficial as it was an attempt by the adviser to persuade schools to place microcomputers away from the maths or physics department and helped in the school library service policy of validating the links between the school library and information technology . |
| 7 | Now , obviously , you know , yo getting the menopause out into the open so that everyone can talk about it , exchange information that that it 's not seen as a as a taboo or something to be particularly fearful of by men or women is n't going to be much good if it just makes everybody worry for er , for for the first half of o o o of their lives and , and then gibber through the second half ! |
| 8 | Unemployment may still be rising quite sharply ; underlying inflation will not be much lower than it is now ; sterling may need to be supported by a rise in interest rates . |
| 9 | It is our wish , as ever , to build better relationships with these agencies , and develop levels of mutual confidence to a point where the flow of information would be much greater than it has been . |
| 10 | the main or background yarn has to be of a thickness your machine can knit , but the weaving yarn can be much thicker because it is n't actually knitting stitches . |
| 11 | The Direktor had suggested that it was not necessary for Willi to go , that in fact it would be much better if it were just him , Busacher , and no-one else . |
| 12 | A purchasing organisation should be much smaller since it will not need personnel concerned with line management and the provision of services . |
| 13 | In the early part of the twentieth century very little was known about the chronology of tribal art ( most of it was considered to be much older than it is ) , and the stylistic differences between the work of various regions had not been examined ; Guillaume himself included Oceanic work under the term tribal art , and felt that it could be extended to include Alaskan art as well . |
| 14 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |
| 15 | How could a man so intelligent in every other way be so obtuse when it came to ordinary everyday living ? |
| 16 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 17 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 18 | It would nt be so bad if it were Leeds RLFC , at least thered be some revenue generated . |
| 19 | We could suggest that there could be beliefs of type 1 if there were beliefs which were justified by appeal to the facts and that a belief could be so justified if it was caused by the facts . |
| 20 | In fact , this definition would be highly restrictive because it depends upon the subjective views of both client and practitioner . |
| 21 | The use of reference selling in industrial marketing can be highly successful since it reduces the perceived risk for a potential buyer . |
| 22 | ABWOR would only be highly significant if it were to be used for a much wider range of proceedings , especially those for which legal aid is not available . |
| 23 | At the other extreme , ‘ I dislike it ’ turns out to be highly questionable when it implies diminished awareness : |
| 24 | The problem is that the ‘ well-constructed ’ or ‘ textbook ’ ad is liable to be extremely boring unless it embodies a really good idea , and that it is possible for a skilled creative person to bend the ‘ rules ’ of construction in such a way as to make a moderately good idea look or sound much better . |
| 25 | Trapping data into files in this way can be extremely useful because it changes ephemeral data into a permanent list . |
| 26 | The egg needs to be extremely large because it contains the nourishment required to produce a most precocious chick . |
| 27 | And devolution might be less effective than it should be if , as could well be the case in Scotland for example , the support for one particular party was such that there was very little likelihood of a change of control at elections . |
| 28 | It is not surprising , therefore , that one finds this pattern in some of the ‘ softer ’ professional fields , such as social work and teaching , where the theory-practice relationship may be less one-way than it is in the ‘ harder ’ ones . |
| 29 | This possibility may be less prominent if it were Jack and Jill who went to the cinema . |
| 30 | In fact the lymphangiogram turned out to be less arduous than it sounded . |