Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will refuse to stand still because the last time we got off it was punished ! |
| 2 | Full details of how to go about it are shown on page 7 . |
| 3 | Perhaps the best way to go about it was to take his message at face value . |
| 4 | A membrane which allows solvent particles but not solute particles to pass through it is called a semi-permeable membrane . |
| 5 | In fact , so immersed in one another had they been that when they had looked up it was to find that all the other diners had left the restaurant . |
| 6 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 7 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 8 | The agreement was also denounced by many liberal Democrats on the grounds that the spending cuts contained within it were orientated towards welfare programmes and , therefore , were targeted at those least able to absorb them . |
| 9 | The establishment of the cohesion fund and eligibility to benefit from it were agreed by all the member states . |
| 10 | Mr. Pannick , for the Secretary of State , did not object to it being raised here ; but he observed that we have no evidence from the department on the topic . |
| 11 | It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan . |
| 12 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 13 | Although it took so long finally to dispose of the machinery and tanks , other material was removed from the incline during the 1920's as uses for it were found . |
| 14 | Everybody who is connected with it is changed by it . |
| 15 | The line had not been run a week before all Europeans connected with it were discharged , and the whole thing was controlled by the Chinese , who had carefully watched the progress of the work , and had stored up a vast mass of data for future use . |
| 16 | The noise that came with it was heard fifty miles away . |
| 17 | I mean , you have a kid , a little baby boy , and the best you can do with it is to name it John ? |
| 18 | The second is that the person named in it was registered as the holder of the stated number of shares . |
| 19 | Calls made from it were traced by police to the homes of witnesses due to give evidence in trials on Tyneside . |
| 20 | So far as the acquiring company is concerned , the shares transferred to it are acquired at their actual value at the time of transfer , so that that forms the base value if and when they come to be disposed of . |
| 21 | Er , because w er males because of er variance of male reproductive success , another way of looking at it is to say look , males are expendable , you do n't actually need a lot of males to keep all your females fertilized so you can waste them , and in fact we do waste them , for example in wars . |
| 22 | Another way of looking at it is to think of an actor who rehearses and rehearses his lines in order that his performance may be as near perfect as possible on opening night . |
| 23 | to examine to what extent the generation of such travel and the mode used for it are associated with particular household , personal or locational characteristics , and |
| 24 | What I do n't like about it is standing over the board , moving the iron back and forth . |
| 25 | One successful way of going about it is to invite parents into school one class at a time to hear of the plans that the school has made . |
| 26 | Helping me look for it was keeping your brother away from Silvia . ’ |
| 27 | And as they were fretting about it being nicked , it turned up in their own backyard . |
| 28 | When I got my telescope to look through it was gone . |
| 29 | As soon as the offices and shops closed at noon , the square and all the streets leading off it were filled with bicycles , then as now the best way of getting about in Parma . |
| 30 | If a finding is incorrect , then the conclusions drawn from it are discredited at once . |