Example sentences of "[pron] it be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 32 | Nor is it necessary to know any of x 's relational properties in order to understand what it is for it to be round-shaped or metal . |
| 33 | Other than that , I ca n't see what it is about her that is so dreadful suddenly , but the tone of disappointment and warning in my mother 's voice does get through to me . |
| 34 | talk about , I do n't know what it is about her I do n't like her , very often I sort of she , to me she 's sarcastic , the way , the way she 's talking to you there 's sarcasm there all the time , you know , like |
| 35 | Can you say what it is about them that threatens you ? |
| 36 | So it is just as important to know what it is about your organisation that customers value so that you can promote it fully . |
| 37 | Now tell me what it is about your eidetic ability that is causing you so much distress . ’ |
| 38 | I do n't know what it is about it , but I find I have the urge to sit here and enjoy it . |
| 39 | THE BEATMASTERS FEATURING ELAINE VASSELL : Du n no What It is About You BOMB THE BASS : Keep Giving Me Love |
| 40 | At least — at least — I do n't know what it is about you , Miss Abbott , but you make me want to bare my soul to you — I did have a wife once , years ago , when I was very young , but she left me , not I her , to live with someone else . |
| 41 | The word ‘ more ’ has its meaning disclosed through combination with terms telling one what it is of which ‘ more ’ is in question . |
| 42 | My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen , South ( Mr. Doran ) and other colleagues know what it is to which I refer . |
| 43 | ‘ I do n't know what it is with me and my left foot … |
| 44 | I 've smoked for over fifteen years , and it has become , it 's something to do with my hands and I think that 's what it is with me . |
| 45 | No , she said she gets arthritis in hers and I expect that 's what it is with mine . |
| 46 | They try to empty what it is in their stomach and it |
| 47 | mm , well that 's what it is in it ? , that 's what it is |
| 48 | What it is in it for me ? |
| 49 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 50 | Having decided what it is in your story that they will have to do , try to switch to thinking of each one of them as a simple human being . |
| 51 | For what it 's worth my own advice would be that we I erm as you remember , increased the rental for the er coffee rooms from four thousand pounds when I er took over the post of chief executive and er to seven thousand five hundred in July eighty nine and we 've increased that yearly to a sum of twenty one thousand one hundred and fifty pounds per annum er from the first of August nineteen ninety one . |
| 52 | Yeah , yeah , what it , what it was on them ones |
| 53 | I think a lot of people get carried away with the occasion and it 's actually supposed to be a very romantic day , and , you know , that 's what it was for me . |
| 54 | It slipped smoothly through the blackness , a faint throbbing heartbeat announcing its coming to a couple of village dogs , who strained in vain to make out what it was with their inadequate monochrome vision . |
| 55 | For what it was worth I asked her if she knew of a Ewen Mackay who might once have lived at Otters ' Bay , but she shook her head |
| 56 | She did n't really know what it was about him which made her go pale whenever they met and kept her awake at night longing . |
| 57 | Lucy Lane wondered , not for the first time , what it was about him that encouraged people to talk ; sometimes it was almost as though he was n't there . |
| 58 | ‘ The consciousness secretly indwelling in matter , the occult inhabitant , is able to make its way upward from the lower to the higher gradations , taking up what it was into what it is and preparing to take up both into what it will be . |
| 59 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |
| 60 | ‘ You could n't bear the thought , could you , of that girl , that nice young girl , being mistress here ? you told yourself it was for me , all for me . ’ |