Example sentences of "[pron] it be [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end result is a novel in which it is impossible to be sure of anything . |
| 2 | However , the rules which regulate take-over bids are so riddled with occasions when the managers of a target company can affect the outcome of the bid that the take-over bid ceases to act as the potent threat to self-serving or inefficient corporate managers which it is supposed to be . |
| 3 | The point is rather that the so-called independent check is a mere repetition of the procedure which it is supposed to be checking . |
| 4 | Inwards , it is expressed in a bid to lead the community in question back to a more meticulous observance of the canons of Islam according to which it is supposed to be living . |
| 5 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
| 6 | The iconography may be updated — with Punch , Harlequin , Perrault 's Cinderella , archetypal figures of immemorial imaginings replaced by newer , movie-bred cast of characters , Roger Rabbit , Indiana Jones , Disney 's Cinderella — but both theme park and funfair are designed to satisfy the childhood fantasy of a toy as big as the object of which it 's supposed to be the scale model . |
| 7 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |
| 8 | The detection rate of cryptosporidiosis in the one year in which it was possible to be calculated was similar to the finding of 1.4% reported by Baxby and Hart . |
| 9 | Kinnock grew up in a society in which it was natural to be Labour and which Labour controlled . |
| 10 | Even if Dáil members had thought otherwise , it must by now be clear that the ethos of the Irish Republic was still one in which it was impolitic to be in conflict with the church . |
| 11 | It indicates only that a bag of unknown origin was sent from Coding Station 206 at 1:07 p.m. to a position from which it was supposed to be loaded on Pan Am 103 . ’ |
| 12 | The impetus came partly from a growing interest in Schopenhauer 's theory of music , and partly from an uncomfortable sense that his own artistic practice was diverging further and further from the theoretical postulates of which it was supposed to be the realization . |
| 13 | Yet according to you it 's supposed to be dead already and wasting away — ‘ |
| 14 | and there 's one it 's supposed to be erm a pretty good unit |
| 15 | With him it 's likely to be money in the end . ’ |
| 16 | The suicide theory wo n't occur to her and her common sense would tell her it 's unlikely to be written off as another accident . |
| 17 | When one is with her it is impossible to be bored . |
| 18 | For people like me it 's natural to be patriotic and to stick with your mates … ’ |
| 19 | Quite apart from the violence , the girls told me it was difficult to be friendly with white girls . |
| 20 | First of all , I think that it it 's difficult to be sure of this because of the way in which the County Council prepared their the evidence on which I relayed relied and like Mr I did n't come here prepared to talks in detail about the inner northern . |
| 21 | well whatever it is supposed to be |
| 22 | Similarly the range of tasks for which the device is required may not be known in the kind of detail which is available from comprehensive task descriptions but the designer will consider the extremes of what it is likely to be used for and the environment in which it will be used , for example designing a machine-tool for use in a factory has different requirements from designing a powered garden tool where the user could be wearing heavy gloves , will not be wearing safety-boots and will not receive any formal training . |
| 23 | You know , what it 's supposed to be a , a , a terror of a horror story |
| 24 | If there is to be a major publicity launch of some kind , or you 're going to have , if you 've got an advert in some magazine , journal , newspaper or whatever , and you 're asking for people to call in , please let the switchboard know who to put the calls through to , and what it 's likely to be about . |
| 25 | I know it 's very stupid of me , but I could n't understand what it was supposed to be about at all . |