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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | thing through in this way and are ready to speak of being convinced of it is to see whether we can express it . |
| 5 | Closer perhaps to the title of this section , we might come to allow that the computer really was paying tax refunds ( because it said it was ) , even though all detective work on its machine code program was consistent with it being occupied directing the trajectories of inter-continental ballistic missiles . |
| 6 | For all irrational and exploitative forms of authority , self-assertion — the pursuit by another of his own goals — is the arch sin because it is a threat to the power of the authority ; the person subject to it is indoctrinated to believe that the aims of the authority are also his , and that obedience offers the optimal chance for fulfilling oneself . |
| 7 | It 's useable by it 's going to go into the , the archives for public consumption . |
| 8 | In the common case of a symmetric section , the load impedance that renders the input impedance equal to it is called the characteristic impedance . |
| 9 | However , please do not hesitate to contact me if further clarification is needed prior to it being distributed . |
| 10 | It involved work on the quayside in which the steel pipe , seven metres long and used for lifting , had to be slotted onto a plate prior to it being hoisted into position by a crane and welded . |
| 11 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
| 12 | Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all . |
| 13 | And if there was one thing Charity was good at it was disciplining her mind . |
| 14 | With a Repayment Mortgage the capital borrowed and the interest due upon it are paid to the lender , however , with Endowment , Pension and Personal Equity Plan Linked Mortgages only the interest is repaid to the lender , with the capital being repaid by a separate investment contract or life insurance policy . |
| 15 | The aims of the legislation and the expectations of those responsible for it are referred to in the following passage : |
| 16 | Their claim was all the more pointed for it was made in the City of London , in the heart of the constituency of Peter Brooke — replaced last night as Northern Ireland Secretary — who has led , with consummate patience , the process of bringing all the Ulster politicians to the same conference table for the first time in 16 years . |
| 17 | By a single vote , the Commons withheld confidence from the government , Lord Melbourne sought and obtained a dissolution of Parliament , and the necessity for a Cabinet to secure the confidence and support of Parliament and thus be responsible to it was established . |
| 18 | It just was n't a thing you could ignore , and being alone at it was to combine the worst elements of being alone at any other time , and multiply them by two hundred and fifty . |
| 19 | If the British proposals are adopted , waste will continue to be imported from undeveloped countries who lack processing facilities , on the grounds that this would be preferable to it being dumped in situ , with all the ensuing environmental hazards . |
| 20 | Production incidental to it is identified as ‘ Co-operative Production ’ . |
| 21 | In the first place , he contests its equation with any anthropological definition of ‘ man ’ ; in the second , he argues that Sartre 's description of history as making up one ‘ History ’ with one meaning is only achieved through the exclusion of all other histories with other meanings : the totalization can only totalize if everything which remains other to it is excluded . |
| 22 | So attached are the Milanese to this symbol of their city that no building that is close to it is allowed to overtop it . |
| 23 | Yeah , but I , I think the reason I feel a bit bitter about it is living round here , you see all the dirties and the scruffies , you get annoyed , absolute no order , they 've crawled into the system right up to and doing openly in front of you |
| 24 | They write out a cheque but it never gets cashed for it 's taken back at once . |
| 25 | A stinging blow from the back of Ursula 's hand caught Charlotte round the mouth before she was aware of it being aimed . |
| 26 | Although such a payment is made in a very limited number of cases , this booklet 's authors are dead against it being made automatic ; after all |