Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't much like it , mice and such like have always given me the creeps , but I did feel sorry for it being shut up . |
| 2 | Well because when you shine a light on to a board only half of it is gon na be facing only half of it is gon na be facing . |
| 3 | Well because when you shine a light on to a board only half of it is gon na be facing only half of it is gon na be facing . |
| 4 | Well it 's neither here nor there but I mean the thing is that we do n't as it is we 're not losing anything because you 're getting yours , half of it 's coming back as , as gross interest . |
| 5 | In fact , in the early Merovingian period it seems to have been held by the rulers of the eastern kingdom , but after Sigibert I 's murder in 575 half of it was handed over to Guntram , presumably to cement an alliance between the young Childebert II and his uncle . |
| 6 | The East India Company 's nominal capital of £740,000 would have been about 2 per cent of the national income , though in fact only half of it was paid up until calls for fresh capital had to be made in the 1690s . |
| 7 | When the sun 's rays hit the Earth a lot of the heat is reflected back into space but some of it is kept within the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 8 | Some of it is done by legislation which erm fire officers have to erm put to use er and , and work to erm and then there 's a lot of good will advice and , and help that can be given , er and publicity and training and so on which comes under the big wing of fire prevention . |
| 9 | If I said some of it is n't made from the words or the message some of it is made from the tone of your voice . |
| 10 | And some of it is made from body language . |
| 11 | The paper is much more tentative because some of it is based on evidence which has not always been gathered from studies designed specifically to elicit people 's conceptions in the mind . |
| 12 | However , when energy is converted from one form to another , some of it is wasted . |
| 13 | Less bone is ingested by diurnal raptors , because some of it is left with the uneaten carcase after soft parts have been stripped off , whereas more of the bone is eaten by owls . |
| 14 | As long as the seal is not broken , the decay does not progress , even when some of it is left behind . |
| 15 | and some of it is taken out of Killinghall . |
| 16 | As national income rises , some of it is spent on imports and this is equivalent to a rise in other countries ' exports . |
| 17 | ‘ Retype it — some of it 's handwritten , I 'm afraid . |
| 18 | Because , I mean , I know where it 's coming from , some of it 's coming from Stanley , who , who thinks if I do n't stand down it will damage Ruth 's chances . |
| 19 | The partial recovery of the economy after 1983 was to show that some of it was misplaced , and that fears about national ungovernability and inability to adapt were ill-founded . |
| 20 | Some of it was broken . |
| 21 | Some of it was mixed with other ingredients as a compost , some of it was used as pure money . |
| 22 | In their haste to dispose of the money some of it was burned and some ended up in a sewer . |
| 23 | Well though some of it was coming from Argentine , that used to be boneless Argentine beef . |
| 24 | And in years gone by , I understand that some of it was used to electrocute the criminals . |
| 25 | Some of it was mixed with other ingredients as a compost , some of it was used as pure money . |
| 26 | You 've got three thousand people locally who 've their signatures to a petition who do n't want this thing on their doorstep because they 're worried that they 've tha that there 're going to be things wrong with it 's going to affect the quality of the lives of people in Selby . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the first Gazette had been completed but Carrie and Willie were the only two with any staying power which meant that two-thirds of it were filled with Carrie 's words and Willie 's pictures . |
| 28 | The only way you can stop getting paranoid about it is to get someone else to watch and tell you if you are doing anything wrong . |
| 29 | Much of it is engrossed with problems internally generated within the research itself , sometimes because of the need for experimental precision , sometimes because of conceptual ineptitude . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , these arrangements have been subjected to considerable criticism , although much of it is related to the high-rise building , difficulty of supervising children , industrialised building materials and the other , now familiar , complaints about such brutal townscapes . |