Example sentences of "it be their " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS arguable that successive British Governments , although paying lip service from time to time to the notion of being able to change the institutions of the EEC ‘ from within ’ , have never in reality held out much hope of doing so ; rather , perhaps , has it been their true intent to use the institutions of the EEC to shape the policy of Europe in their own image . |
| 2 | Might it be their working environment ? |
| 3 | Could it be their governments do not believe that the Iraqi regime will eventually be forced to make good the costs of the operation ? |
| 4 | But , if the Americans were going to make a mess of it , let it be their mess , not his . |
| 5 | . Let it be their responsibility , they put them in there . |
| 6 | Each scrap of news any one of them had about themselves or their immediate family — child , husband , dog , cat , Bendix dishwasher , a new dress or pair of shoes , the price of every article they bought — was as fascinating to each other as if it were their very own ; and any little thing out of Great Meadow was pure binding . |
| 7 | Lawn owners have good reason for keeping clear consciences and generally living each day as through it were their last . |
| 8 | In The World 's Desire , Rider Haggard and his close friend Andrew Lang presented as it were their thesis of romance in a turgid tale based on certain theories of their time concerning possible trafficking between Achaean Greece , Crete and Egypt under the Ramessids . |
| 9 | I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape . |
| 10 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 11 | It being their considered opinion , based on personal experience , that no one method is sufficient to meet their needs in adult life , they desire , therefore , that the Minister of Education shall with the utmost speed institute a Special Enquiry into the results of the present system and if necessary in the light of conclusions thus established , take such steps as he may think desirable to include the use of fingerspellng and signing , in conjunction with the oral teaching , in the curriculum of all Special Schools for the Deaf . |
| 12 | For those Celtic supporters who have had to tread a thin line between desperation and devastation this season , there was no inclination to do anything other than wallow in it being their team who had put an end to Rangers long , unbeaten run . |
| 13 | We can never get it as good as the black people do , 'cause it 's their music . ’ |
| 14 | It 's their whole existence . |
| 15 | Some of them do n't look too good , not after they been burned like that , specially when it 's their features what have gone . |
| 16 | You 're a girl , they 're blokes , they seem to think it 's their duty to comment ; it does n't matter what you 're wearing . |
| 17 | ‘ Initially it 's their looks , their talent , their presence , their own personality , you know like body language , sexuality if you like . |
| 18 | ‘ If they 're in trouble then it 's their own fault , ’ said the Headmaster . |
| 19 | Gentlemen like our good host still believe it 's their business to meddle in matters they do n't understand . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's their island . ’ |
| 21 | 1 Help residents to feel it 's their home |
| 22 | And wee Kate and Joshua are just plain gorgeous even though it 's their Granny talking . |
| 23 | It 's their intention to have a car as close to Zoom as possible in production by 1995 . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's their food sack ; a little bread cheese and ham , ’ he called . |
| 25 | It 's their waterproofing agent , so leave it where it is . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's their fault if they 're ugly . |
| 27 | If parents want to leave a child in the garden with a dog , it 's their responsibility , but anywhere else , even down to the local shop , children should never take a dog out . |
| 28 | The kind of people who 'll order a guitar like this Manson will argue in reply that : ( a ) a production guitar will never have a handmade guitar 's combination of all the right bits with that extra edge of quality ; ( b ) it 's obviously better to go for a traditional design than some mutant battle-axe because you 're less likely to get sick of it and they 're a lot easier to customise further and there 's nothing better at fitting into virtually any style of music than an S-type or a T-type ; and ( c ) it 's their money , anyway . |
| 29 | It 's their last song , the one everyone has been waiting for , it 's their biggest hit — it 's a hysterical cock-up . |
| 30 | It 's their last song , the one everyone has been waiting for , it 's their biggest hit — it 's a hysterical cock-up . |