Example sentences of "[be] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When your parents die , it 's a bit like having a baby — there 's the element of wondering why people who 've been through it did n't tell you what it was really like . |
| 2 | Yes certainly in the late nineteen eighties , more houses were built in one particular year , depend depending on which part of the country you 're in it happens to be different years . |
| 3 | I do n't think they 're in it to make zillions and zillions of pounds , I think they 're in it to make great records . |
| 4 | I do n't think they 're in it to make zillions and zillions of pounds , I think they 're in it to make great records . |
| 5 | When you 're on it make sure you believe what you 're saying ! |
| 6 | Buy a metal bulb planting tool while you 're at it to help take the frustration out of planting into the grass . |
| 7 | If we who are against it have to speak up for them , then it 's a duty we willingly undertake . |
| 8 | What had been in it lay ahead of her . |
| 9 | ‘ At the end of the day all of us are in it to sell records . |
| 10 | But it would all be worth it to see them settled and thriving in their new home . |
| 11 | If we were going there and back in a day but it would n't really be worth it to go to the fair . |
| 12 | It 's bin a mite hectic while it lasted , but it wuz worth it jes ’ t'smoke out that nest of rattlers that wuz runnin' Bethlehem House . |
| 13 | For the DUP to embrace this accord and attempt to make it work would be for it to abandon its opposition to anything which presages a united Ireland . |
| 14 | The first was that the abrogation of responsibility by a nation for its coinage would be for it to surrender the essence of its own statehood . |
| 15 | ‘ Now it is a general rule , that no court of limited jurisdiction can give itself jurisdiction by a wrong decision on a point collateral to the merits of the case upon which the limit to its jurisdiction depends ; and however its decision may be final on all particulars , making up together that subject-matter which , if true , is within its jurisdiction , and , however necessary in many cases it may be for it to make a preliminary inquiry , whether some collateral matter be or be not within the limits , yet , upon this preliminary question , its decision must always be open to inquiry in the superior Court . ’ |
| 16 | One way for Novell to increase its current minority position in USL might be for it convert its shares in Univel , where it controls 51% , into USL stock . |
| 17 | She wanted life to be like it had been earlier that evening . |
| 18 | Speculation about what will be in it ranges from a package of measures to help reduce unemployment to increases in petrol , alcohol and tobacco . |
| 19 | BUT remember — you 're got to be in it to win it . |
| 20 | Your mother presumably , who forced you to do that , was happier than you were about it happening , and that 's what made you sad . |
| 21 | And we were at it clearing this there right in in the hollow . |
| 22 | It takes so much time , and conditions can be terrible , but it 's worth it to see the passengers . |
| 23 | thing if you think about is as it 's used for drugs |
| 24 | It can do all there is for it to do , which is to discover regularities among our God-given ideas , and to systematize these in the most useful way . |
| 25 | The country 's only hope for economic recovery , he claims , is for it to turn to the highly skilled , ‘ sunrise industries ’ that will generate wealth and cope with an expanding welfare bill . |
| 26 | We need to reflect , however , on what has just been said : in brief , that for something to be or to have a power in the primary sense is for it to enter into a possible causal circumstance . |
| 27 | By contrast , the norm for curriculum change is for it to occur piecemeal and gradually over long periods . |
| 28 | It seems to be a facet of nature that the lower a creature is on the scale of consciousness , the less there is for it to learn , and the more slavishly bound it is to its instincts . |
| 29 | I am sorry to hear of the job losses to which the hon. Gentleman refers , but the only secure future for the coal industry or , indeed , for any other industry , is for it to produce something that people want at a price that people can afford . |
| 30 | Thus , the more mobile a dipolar group , the easier it is for it to follow the electric field up to higher frequencies , whereas the less mobile groups can only orient at lower frequencies . |