Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's worth being brave : the staff are normal and charming . |
| 2 | " Capital sum " for these purposes has the same meaning as in s677. ( b ) Associated payments In relation to any capital sum paid to the settlor by a body corporate the expression " associated payment " means : ( i ) any capital sum paid to that body by the trustees of the settlement ; and ( ii ) any other sum paid or asset transferred to that body by those trustees which is not paid or transferred for full consideration in money or money 's worth being a sum paid or asset transferred in the five years ending or beginning with the date on which the capital sum is paid to the settlor ( s678(3) ) . |
| 3 | Er , on paragraph nine the government 's own figures show that there is a shortfall of glee while the others who have a a social conscience , a and that they 've mixed , the site provision is n't keeping pace with the growth of the number of caravans and yet , what it 's proposing to do in this paper will make the situation worse by removing any incentive erm and any requirement on local authorities actually to provide the sites that are needed to make up that shortfall and it 's quite clear that what this is about is actually what it is happening in housing in general and that is shifting provision from the pri , from the public to the private sector . |
| 4 | What it is about is using our members ' money to benefit the people who represent them by moving the responsibility of training from national to regional level . |
| 5 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 6 | It 's it 's not about being able to get rid of them totally and we agree that we need some sort of level of arousal it 's being able to perform despite them to use that arousal to put into an effective presentation , and that 's what this two days is about is getting those butterflies for you to fly in formation . |
| 7 | Well no but that 's what this , this talk on is about is er well I forget the paper |
| 8 | The manager can manipulate some things to stave that off , but pop music is about being popular . |
| 9 | This is because they sing songs with titles like ‘ Love Girdle ’ , which , so the singer tells us , ‘ is about being in love with , well , a fat girl . ’ |
| 10 | A few weeks earlier that same candidate had drawn the member of parliament 's attention to ‘ one David Denholm an old worn out officer at Thorntonloch nigh Dunglass in East Lothian who is about being supperannuated ’ . |
| 11 | As Mr and Mrs Atkin from Newcastle , on their third Disney World visit , told me : ‘ Coming to Disney is about being in America . |
| 12 | ‘ Jean-Michel 's success is about being in touch with the market and adapting to suit it , which is what retailing is all about , ’ says an admiring Neil Prosser . |
| 13 | It is about outfoxing your opponent , about leading defenders into false positions … it is about being one step ahead' |
| 14 | It is about being one step ahead . ’ |
| 15 | this , this is about being in lines . |
| 16 | Well the national account what you are saying is the national account if the work 's for is then responsible for all those accounts that happen to be from the national account manager . |
| 17 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 18 | It 's like this people th they 're deep sea divers and they discover , they 're stuck in the crevice , a big erm nuclear submarine and what it 's for is an experiment that 's gone wrong and it it 's to make and instead they make an abomination you know , incredibly powerful and intelligent but really nasty you know , murderous and killer and so they take they take him to these people . |
| 19 | Robin Lee in The Times maintained that both books were beneath criticism , Faludi 's for using the ‘ low-brow , flirtatious idiom of Cosmopolitan magazine ’ , French 's for being ‘ aggressive and intemperate ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'ope you like it , Joe , it 's for being me best friend ever . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That 's for being a prick , ’ she said , and walked out . |
| 22 | Obviously , it is in a ‘ plugger 's ’ interest to claim that it was his or her work which made a record into a hit , but if you employ a ‘ plugger ’ it is worth being sceptical when deciding what to believe . |
| 23 | When Jack and Alick , after being shipwrecked and narrowly escaping murder , starvation and sundry other perils , are reunited with Terence on board a brig-of-war , he declares it is worth being lost when reunion is so pleasant and ends with a flourish : ‘ Old fellows , I knew you would come back somehow or other ; I always said so ; astride of a dolphin , if in no other way … ’ |
| 24 | It is worth being clear in your own mind about the possible usefulness of Blake 's grid . |
| 25 | All this week is for is going on appointments I 've made last week , and for setting up my appointments for next week . |
| 26 | It is through being able to see simultaneously both backwards as well as forwards , without the need to glance over his shoulder . |
| 27 | Another way is through being in contact with parents of young people to try to help them . |
| 28 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 29 | Beadle 's About 's on is n't it ? |
| 30 | that 's what it 's about is n't it , really ? |