Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 268(1) provides that associated operations means any two or more operations of any kind , being : ( 1 ) operations which affect the same property , or one of which affects some property and the other or others of which affect property which represents , whether directly or indirectly , that property , or income arising from that property , or any property representing accumulations of any such income ; or ( 2 ) any two operations of which one is effected with reference to the other , or with a view to enabling the other to be effected , or facilitating it being effected , and any further operations having a like relation to any of those two , and so on whether those operations are effected by the same person or different persons , and whether or not they are simultaneous . |
| 2 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 3 | The path would last for forty-odd years , and seeing it being transformed was immensely satisfying . |
| 4 | It dries surprisingly quickly , and providing it 's laundered as directed on the label it 's relatively crease resistant . |
| 5 | A reply came thanking us for our letter and saying it is receiving attention . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's vital that the people making those decisions are in touch with the grass roots of the sport — that they are out there on the ground talking to athletes and coaches , attending races and letting it be known what they are doing . |
| 7 | Baldwin encouraged it to do so — by inviting an unacceptable resolution , by promoting a secret ballot , and letting it be known that he would resign if defeated . |
| 8 | As its name suggests , the course was a mire with a stream running through it but after considerable levelling and draining it was established in the shape of a horseshoe . |
| 9 | The scientific truth is often much more fascinating , but investigating it is stifled if we simply relegate every unusual occurrence to the dustbin of ‘ mystic forces ’ . |
| 10 | ( 1964 ) listed N. lapillus as one of the species unaffected by the cold winter of 1962/63 in Britain , Moore quotes Caullery ( 1929 ) as saying it was affected by a cold winter at Boulogne . |