Example sentences of "be [that] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have done that before , and the hope must be that they will do it again . |
| 2 | If you have a lead rising main , it may well be that you can see it only at the mains stopcock , after which it disappears into the wall to re-emerge in the loft covered with sacking on its way to the cold water cistern . |
| 3 | All I 'm saying is that we 'll overdo it if we have the … ’ |
| 4 | The first is that we may find it hard to suppose that facts can cause anything ; surely they are too inert to affect the way the world goes , even where that world is the merely mental world of beliefs . |
| 5 | What it would mean is that we would consider it immoral to treat animals as if they had no intrinsic value , as if they were of instrumental value only , merely means to human ends . |
| 6 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 7 | The important thing is that we can influence it through aerobic exercise . |
| 8 | ‘ The great thing about this boat is that we can take it out in all kinds of weather throughout the year , and everyone will be perfectly safe on board . |
| 9 | ‘ The great thing about this boat is that we can take it out in all kinds of weather throughout the year , and everyone will be perfectly safe on board . |
| 10 | All I know is that I 'll regret it all my life if I do n't do this now . ’ |
| 11 | The main thing is that I can do it through official channels . |
| 12 | Now the important thing about this document is that you 'll receive it on the day the first day of your assignment . |
| 13 | Now , what I was gon na do now was go through this quoick transformation right , you 're not gon na be asked t to produce it in an exam or anything like that , but the reason why I 'm doing it now is that you will need it for your er , your Q M exam not er your exam , your project right , cos there is a similar applicat , it 's quite a commonly used tool you 'll find er , where wherever we have a , erm , an expression with an infinite number of erm possibilities or an in infinite number of arguments . |
| 14 | The advantage of building a wardrobe entirely from scratch is that you can tailor it exactly to fit the space available . |
| 15 | The third piece of evidence for the big bang is that you can see it . |
| 16 | The one major drawback with this proposal to ‘ give Channel Four its freedom ’ is that it would make it compete with the existing ITV companies . |
| 17 | But he winced at that , and she thought , this has nothing to do with ego , and continued , ‘ I 'm thinking that really the big difference is that it must make it more difficult to handle things . |
| 18 | And what 's even more sure is that he will do it in some style . |
| 19 | What is new and important is that he should consider it necessary to convey the contrasting opinions of the contemporary Greeks to their Roman masters . |
| 20 | Bill 's idea was that they should play it as a ballad instead . |