Example sentences of "[adv prt] what it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | just spend a couple of minutes now and jot down what it is you would like to get out of this course by tomorrow afternoon what you would like to say you 've achieved on this course . |
| 2 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 3 | One of the problems is you ne , it 's alright saying something on the environment , you have to tighten up what it is you 're gon na do . |
| 4 | AN INCREASING demand for hypo-allergenic dairy products has led a Tayside woman to take the first tentative steps towards setting up what it is thought would be Britain 's only mare milking unit . |
| 5 | ‘ The consciousness secretly indwelling in matter , the occult inhabitant , is able to make its way upward from the lower to the higher gradations , taking up what it was into what it is and preparing to take up both into what it will be . |
| 6 | I never used to be able to read good before I went into prison : I used to get into the book and think , ‘ What 's that word ? ’ and then cut the word down to size until I made up what it was . |
| 7 | It seemed to her now that all she had ever had had been the dream of having dreams ; the goal of having goals one day , once she had made her mind up what it was she wanted . |
| 8 | Undoubtedly one of the best ways the overseas student has of seeing what is required in British theatre training is to apply for one of the summer schools offered by the drama schools , and find out what it 's all about before committing him- or herself to a long and expensive stay . |
| 9 | " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like . |
| 10 | I 've never been in jail and I never wan na find out what it 's like in jail but if you actually ever go to the police station , Harlow police station , they sometimes let people up there and do tours , no one likes being left in the cell cos when the door closes it 's very very small and it 's very claustrophobic , and it 's not very nice . |
| 11 | ‘ One thing anyway is clear , ’ Wendell said emphatically , –you will have to go to England and find out what it 's all about . |
| 12 | ( ? ) If you find it and work out what it 's all about , let me know ; he said there was something secret buried in it . |
| 13 | It was a bitter summary of their unhappy affair , but compunction ensued , because it was n't Luke 's fault that he could n't love her , even if he had no right to despise her , so she added neutrally , ‘ There 's a Chinese tea-house or tea-garden — I 'm not sure what it 's really called — not far from here that intrigues me , and I 've been wanting to go and find out what it 's all about ever since I first passed it . |
| 14 | ‘ If you 'd like to find out what it 's like to be put over my knee and given a good thrashing in a public place that 's probably the best way to do it . ’ |
| 15 | If that 's the way of it , why do n't you leave the money , do something else , live like the rest and find out what it 's off really like . |
| 16 | If we 're going to stick by the principle outlined above of keeping close to the centre of the action , we 'll need to meet the dragon in the drama , to find out what it 's really like , maybe to persuade it to come and melt an iceberg for drinking water . |
| 17 | Now work out what it 's equal to . |
| 18 | And then I can give them an idea of price , and we can work out what it 's going to cost . |
| 19 | but then you , then , it 's that , it 's , when you 're at work experience it 's then when you really find out what it 's like |
| 20 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 21 | The only thing I would add is that you need to find out what you are good at ; you need to find out what it is you can contribute which other people ca n't and that is something which only you can find out for yourself . |
| 22 | Even though the new series looks good ( with one of its highlights promising to be the small-screen debut of Paul Whitehead ) and he has at least three other projects on the go , Harry Enfield still has n't figured out what it is that he does exactly . |
| 23 | I shall begin , then , by trying to set out what it is that theists believe in and atheists do n't . |
| 24 | It seems to me that the only possible way of finding out what it is like is to live it . |
| 25 | Let me try to find out what it is really all about . |
| 26 | Find out what it is used for ( eg are the apples for eating or cooking with ? ) . |
| 27 | There are so many diseases that can be helped by the Alexander Technique because , whatever problem we may have , the remedy is always the same : find out what it is that is causing the problem , stop doing whatever it is and then you will soon start to feel better . |
| 28 | Practising the Alexander Technique is a slow process of examining every area of our lives to find out what it is that is going wrong . |
| 29 | Let's go and find out what it is . ’ |
| 30 | The way to get the best out of something — whether faith or a donkey or anything else — is to find out what it is and treat it accordingly . |