Example sentences of "'s [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'ope you like it , Joe , it 's for being me best friend ever . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That 's for being a prick , ’ she said , and walked out . |
| 9 | Beadle 's About 's on is n't it ? |
| 10 | that 's what it 's about is n't it , really ? |
| 11 | It 's about being young and terribly embarrassed and wanting to make an impression but not knowing what it is . |
| 12 | The English novelist Kingsley Amis , considering the film and its possible interpretations , came to the following conclusion : ‘ It 's about being bloody frightened of being eaten by a bloody great shark . ’ |
| 13 | So it 's not about being aggressive it 's not about being aggressive or submissive it 's about being clear to true to yourself being aware of what you want from any given situation . |
| 14 | This session 's about being pro-active rather than reactive . |
| 15 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 16 | It 's of being on red . |
| 17 | It 's like being at the sea , early in the morning with the seagulls and the sea pounding away and the fresh air . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's like being on the rack . ’ |
| 19 | It 's like being caught in huge sticky web – the more you struggle , the more entangled you get . |
| 20 | It 's like being stroked or held . |
| 21 | Unless you have a very small conference of less than a hundred people avoid low ceilings ; it 's like being in a crowded rail commuter carriage and everyone feels oppressed and claustrophobic . |
| 22 | You get that flatfoot looking to tie you in knots and it 's like being squeezed by coils and coils of a sodding boa constrictor . |
| 23 | It 's like being on a runaway roundabout . |
| 24 | It 's like being lectured to and bored at the same time . |
| 25 | It 's like being in Top Gun . |
| 26 | It 's like being on holiday . ’ |
| 27 | It 's like being a house without a roof . ’ |
| 28 | Every time I come out with this lot it 's like being back at school . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's like being on school trips when someone 's in charge and the challenge is to dodge them , ’ guffaws Paul . |
| 30 | It 's like being in an aeroplane with the pressure building up on your ears . |