Example sentences of "[adj] it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to . |
| 2 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 3 | So we might say , Well our overall confidence is two but our relative confidence which is saying how different it is from everything else is only one . |
| 4 | How different it was in the Star Zoo ! |
| 5 | Where waters are quite clear it is worth spending as much time as possible gazing from bridges , the banks or trees . |
| 6 | It says this is the only number you want but as read it and said well it does n't really make it clear it 's for reservations and bookings and it does n't really so we 'll just have to make sure that it damn well happens on the advert . |
| 7 | Christian preachers could declare how wrong it was for an individual to be dominated by another so as to be his legal property , and to be bought for much less than the rich would give for a racehorse . |
| 8 | Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate . |
| 9 | Funny it 's on the tip of my tongue |
| 10 | If the potential rewards are high it is worth pursuing , but knowing when to stop is not easy , and formalized methods of planning are not always easy to apply . |
| 11 | And it also tells me how high it is in the sky . |
| 12 | At first I thought how generous it was of Émile to bother about Jean-Claude at all . |
| 13 | The noise swelled again , now enlarged by people gabbling about how exciting it was at Fif 's , and was n't that gorgeous man the famous Gharr , and who was the sexy little cat-person with him , and so on . |
| 14 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 15 | ‘ Unless we can think of something really clever , I 'm afraid it 's about all we can do . |
| 16 | ‘ Exactly , but I 'm afraid it 's on a need to know basis . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's on its way , ’ he shouted above the hammering as she jumped out of the car . |
| 18 | If the meme is a scientific idea , its spread will depend on how acceptable it is to the population of individual scientists ; a rough measure of its survival value could be obtained by counting the number of times it is referred to in successive years in scientific journals . |
| 19 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 20 | ‘ I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again . |
| 21 | Thus , Aircraftsman First Class Mahaddie left the chalk hills of the Chilterns with some regrets , and a deal of thanksgiving for the blessings bestowed , to enter the RAF proper , and proper it was at Cranwell — the RAF College . |
| 22 | Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason . |
| 23 | We must allow and support the ethnic rights of local people to use their traditional resources , however distasteful it is to our urban and Western prejudices . |
| 24 | Okay to say how similar it is to one thing to another . |
| 25 | The year provides students with a personal knowledge of American culture , making them aware not only of its European origins but also of how distinct it is from its parent cultures . |
| 26 | The great trans-shipment complex for the riches mined from the valleys at Morwellham , near Tavistock in Devon , is now a far cry from its original form , while Coalbrookdale , despite gallant work on it , is quite unlike it was in its heyday . |
| 27 | If Spruce was ironic it was in the words not the tone . |
| 28 | However clever it was at irradiating all those little blue MPs as it passed over them , it still looked too much like something from a game show or a funfair at the end of the pier . |
| 29 | The important thing to note about this example is just how favourable it is to the general natural law case which Finnis , I take it , is at pains to defend . |
| 30 | You know as well as I do how dangerous it is for a woman alone on the roads — any pervert could pick you up ! ’ |