Example sentences of "[prep] it be [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 The whole thing takes around 12 days to complete and takes in all the best Lakeland peaks , but the beauty of it is that it can be divided into any number of day sections and there 's always a lowland alternative route in case the weather is really awful on the tops .
2 So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ?
3 And the maddening part of it is that it 's my own fault .
4 Yeah , I think , I think really the er the er overall view of it is that it 's not serious investment , I mean it is just pure flutter .
5 The basic thrust of it is that it should be looked at only exceptionally : Lloyd .
6 The only way you can make sense of it is that it 's it 's design to get a competitor out of the market .
7 ‘ One good thing to come out of it was that it inspired me to play guitar and turned me into the person I am . ’
8 My impression of it was that it is not as powerful or flexible as the one which Audio Visual demonstrated to myself and Dr Chamberlain recently .
9 The ingenuity of it was that it operated exactly like a Jacquard loom , which is a loom for weaving tapestries without human control no matter how intricate or varied the design .
10 And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again .
11 One argument sometimes raised against it is that it would lead to plea-bargaining , and thus to offenders escaping with lesser convictions and lesser sentences .
12 The great difficulty with it is that it makes the assumption that there is a coincidence of interest between all of these actors which will lead them to reject the maximisation of their own special interests in the search for unified position against the rest of society .
13 But the reason I begin with it is because it is in many ways a blueprint .
14 I was mixing the two and injecting the two , which was pretty weird and I think the only reason I was mixing the coke in with it was 'cos it was cheaper at the time … .
15 The only serious objection to it is that it must suffer badly from the cold and , in its country of origin at least , it must spend the whole of the winter either indoors or in a man-made coat .
16 While the merits and demerits of this argument have been explored extensively , one major objection to it is that it begs the question of who identifies and defines the ‘ need ’ for an expansion in public intervention , and how a perceived need results in specific policies that produce an expanded state sector .
17 The fear for it is that it could easily be hurt without complaining and could suffer at the hands of careless children who would treat it too much like its namesake .
18 I do n't think the script 's up to scratch , and the whole thing 's underbudgeted , but one thing I will say for it is that it 's ABOUT something .
19 The most that can be claimed for it is that it is ingenious .
20 There may be good reasons for it being as it is , but it could be different , and is different in other countries .
21 It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai .
22 Whatever it 's called , though , one of the most gloomy facts about it is that it now spends more on weapons than on health and education put together
23 For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon .
24 The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all .
25 And what 's nice about it is that it tracks better than most .
26 It is often not difficult to determine that relationship , but the point about it is that it is not but must be figured out by every reader .
27 One of the other points about it is that it will erm er , in in the minds of the parents the they will see this one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , ten er being used , poor , satisfactory , excellent and it will get them into the idea of what these levels
28 About the only thing you would n't be able to say about it is that it ‘ washes whiter ’ .
29 The thing about it is that it is not death of the body that is important to us , it 's the soul .
30 Erm er it 's er it 's obviously annoying for me personally , er but the worst thing about it is that it can be done at the drop of a hat , you say , I want information on X. and they say , Yes we can provide .
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