Example sentences of "it [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a carrying capacity of 160 litres , you 'll find the list of things you can sue it for is endless . |
| 2 | ‘ Besides , ’ said Garvin , ‘ all he wants it for is to go to Monte Carlo again . |
| 3 | Is it for is for here ? |
| 4 | That 's right , but I mean all I want it for is the erm |
| 5 | You want that 's what you 're doing it for is hopefully so other people 'll appreciate it . |
| 6 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
| 7 | When eventually its report , Lead and Health , was published in 1980 , various environmental groups damned it for being too meek . |
| 8 | They fasten on theological truths as on an armoury of big sticks , and they rain down blows on their long-suffering faith , belabouring it for being substandard and for failing to believe what it should . |
| 9 | The Munn Report proposed a list similar to that of the HMI , and Darling ( 1978 ) criticised it for being similar to those proposed by Hirst and therefore following his view that education is basically about the development of the mind . |
| 10 | The Alliance to Save Energy , a coalition of US environmental groups , has called the plan " woefully inadequate " , criticising it for being geared solely to the needs of the power industries . |
| 11 | His short-lived journalistic career encompassed the Highland News and then the Cumbernauld News , but after making no headway he swapped it for being a press officer with the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive . |
| 12 | Is it about is it about discourse then erm or |
| 13 | The pressing question is what is it about being female that increases the risk of this condition ? |
| 14 | By this time there was very little he did not know about being a prince ; and long before he came to it he would know more than most men born to it about being a king . |
| 15 | I not only feel it to be the most relevant magazine to the industry I work in — the consumer finance sector — but have also found the appointments section excellent , especially as I secured new employment through it after being made redundant . |
| 16 | well please do n't rely on imagination would it of been part of your duty to ensure it was updated in September nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 17 | Could it of been ? |
| 18 | Yeah If you could hear what she say it 'd make a difference I expect I 'd of gone for another vowel there , it you 'd gone for E it of been |
| 19 | Speaking of the cinema in the Marie Lloyd piece , he accuses it of being ‘ rapid-breeding ’ and reducing its audience to a ‘ state of amorphous protoplasm ’ . |
| 20 | One sign of the times : the film ‘ Bonfire of the Vanities ’ flopped after critics accused it of being kinder to yuppies than the original Tom Wolfe novel . |
| 21 | Our true guide should be their perceived needs , their ‘ simple ’ appetitive desires devoid of the human implications that ‘ desire ’ carries with it of being self-conscious . |
| 22 | In other public statements he was openly critical of the Lord Chancellor and his department , accusing it of being secretive and antiquated . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is the extraordinary popularity of The Color Purple that has led some critics to accuse it of being an uncontentious , sentimental and harmless piece of libertarianism , a family homily that is not just optimistic but eventually even utopian . |
| 24 | What was it like being proposed to by a New York City Planner with a voice to melt molasses by ? ’ |
| 25 | What is it like being in the ‘ I 'm , OK — You 're OK ’ position ? |
| 26 | Her letter asked : ‘ Do you personally know the origin of your surname and what is it like being called ‘ Dudley Fishburn ’ ? ’ . |
| 27 | So what 's it like being the biggest star in America 's most talented family ? |
| 28 | What 's it like being on the road with your mother ? |
| 29 | We need to start with the question : what is it like being a schoolteacher today ? |
| 30 | Scottish women have spent a great deal of time discussing the pros and cons of being an older women , but what 's it like being young in Scotland in nineteen ninety two ? |