Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 NO MATTER how talented or hardworking you are , if you 're a woman it always takes extra effort and drive to succeed in business .
2 ‘ I like Luxembourg to be the way it always has been .
3 But despite being a supplement it also replaces what it signifies .
4 Going back to the question of markedness , we can say that subject as theme in a declarative clause is not marked at all because this is the position it normally occupies in English declarative clauses .
5 In a movie you 've got to have good and bad : in Backdraft the fire brigade is the good and the fire is the bad it even has a kind of growling sound . ’
6 What does distinguish the Thatcherite from the Kinnockite conversion is the connection it originally made with party roots .
7 Yeah so it must have been alright cos there was no letter it just said with the compliments and just take it
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