Example sentences of "be the [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's never been the road it was . |
| 2 | A feature of the role has been the opportunity it has provided for closer liaison between the Catholic Education Commission and the Department of Education . |
| 3 | One of the particularly tragic consequences of the war has been the way it has distracted attention from events in the USSR and Eastern Europe , just when it was needed most . |
| 4 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 5 | All my has been the way it should . |
| 6 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 7 | MANY East Germans are now wondering whether opening the files has been the cleansing it was supposed to be . |
| 8 | The definition of a second has since officially been the time it takes a cesium atom to make 9,192,631,770 vibrations . |
| 9 | The extra ten minutes had probably only been the time it had taken them to find him . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 12 | The style of analysis is to answer an unuttered question : ‘ What is striptease , in what sense is it meaningful , what are the meanings it involves ? ’ |
| 13 | Even though the case happened in the United States , are the issues it raises the same everywhere ? |
| 14 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 15 | The disadvantages are the time it takes to build , and if you 're employing a builder , the cost — likely to be several thousand pounds for even a simple single garage . |
| 16 | ‘ We all marvel at the Red Kite , ’ says Gareth , ‘ But we do n't marvel at the little beetles which are the reason it 's there . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , yeah but you 've just been and then for us now , cos we 're the parents it 's a bag of shit in it Christmas ? |
| 18 | But you 're the ones it 's not me it 's you that counts in the end . |
| 19 | If that were to be the case it could be a return to the profoundly damaging effects that the daily streaming , even in primary and elementary schools , produced in an earlier age . |
| 20 | If that proves to be the case it seems unlikely that he would even be able to claim compensation . ’ |
| 21 | If this does indeed prove to be the case , one of the most significant outcomes of the GCSE is likely to be the limitations it imposes on the parallel development of records of achievement . |
| 22 | The environment is no longer believed to be the vote-getter it was in 1983 , when the Labour government came to power . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I like Luxembourg to be the way it always has been . |
| 26 | Institutions must be considered within the general context of the industrial relations system of which they are an integral part … [ given that ] the point of departure of international comparison can not be an institution as such but must be the function it carries out . |
| 27 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 28 | There are no proposals either in er draught directive form or before this house on that matter as far as I know and certainly er if that were to be the proposal it would be objected to strenuously on this side of the house . |
| 29 | What is suggested is that the supposed right to self-determination may not be the creature it is thought to be . |
| 30 | However , its most serious effect for Brazil is likely to be the role it plays in delaying a southerly weather front which many regions of north-eastern Brazil rely on for rain . |