Example sentences of "[conj] be [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , in the beginning , erm , this is an interview before they start rehearsing one evening , or like , what they each other play , and they 're just talking about how they met and everything , cos they , the vocalist and the guitarist met in a chip shop , and knocked all the chips everywhere , and then he er , the guitarist talks about , erm , he met , I mean , he knows a drummer that 's free and it turns out that it 's the vo vocalist 's vocalist 's brother . |
| 2 | The House was , as I recollect it , in a rather more highly charged mood than is usual when it discusses European matters . |
| 3 | These were songs that laced their natural exuberance with a strain of English satire that was remarkable because it seemed so unaffected . |
| 4 | His voice grated , but he spoke out clearly , perhaps even a little louder than was natural because it cost him such an effort to get it out at all . |
| 5 | The biggest snag , says Mr Moore , is that some of the company 's employees expect too much of the new system , and are disappointed when it fails to deliver miracles . |
| 6 | They do not expect the medical profession to be disinterested , and are disappointed if it does not provide advice and support . |
| 7 | This cultivated form of love is universal and is magnanimous and it conquers all : ‘ If when another says , ‘ I can not love you any longer , ' ’ one proudly answers , ‘ Then I can also get along without loving you . ' ’ |
| 8 | 46 Leonis Minoris is just in the same × 7 field with Xi and Nu , and is identifiable because it has a K-type spectrum and shows its orange colour when viewed through binoculars ; unusually for so dim a star , it has a proper name — Præcipua . |
| 9 | Child Slaves is written in prose that pulls no punches and is strident when it has to be , unlike When the Bough Breaks … which is a bit bloodless by comparison . |
| 10 | This model developed from one that was earlier suggested in relation to slope processes ( Dalrymple , Conacher and Blong , 1969 ) and was important because it introduced the term landsurface catena to refer to a three-dimensional slope extending from interfluve to valley bottom and from the soil/air interface to the base of the soil , with arbitrary lateral dimensions . |
| 11 | Edward had conceived and arranged the exhibition himself and was aware that it lacked verve : he was not good at these things . |
| 12 | Washington could not but be uneasy when it heard the British ( and later the French ) hinting ( and sometimes stating more explicitly ) that their nuclear force might be used to trigger American use of nuclear weapons in an East–West confrontation . |
| 13 | This usually requires quite a lot of practice but is invaluable once it has been mastered . |
| 14 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 15 | With £200 outstanding , he fully expected to pay some interest over the month , but was alarmed when it came to £29 . |
| 16 | We can speak of an orbital as being full if it contains two electrons , half-filled if it has a single electron , or empty . |