Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full details of how to go about it are shown on page 7 . |
| 2 | Perhaps the best way to go about it was to take his message at face value . |
| 3 | A membrane which allows solvent particles but not solute particles to pass through it is called a semi-permeable membrane . |
| 4 | The establishment of the cohesion fund and eligibility to benefit from it were agreed by all the member states . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When I got my telescope to look through it was gone . |
| 7 | Just to look at it was to do penance for her failures . |
| 8 | Erm and I think Margaret had quite a lot to do with it being located at as well . |
| 9 | and erm I actually received twenty seven and twopence a week , to start with it was paid weekly but subsequently erm we went on to the monthly erm payments and er but that 's what I had and er I used to pay my sister fifteen shillings a week for , for lodgings . |
| 10 | Peggy Sue naturally has six different kinds of bread options for toast , while the choices of preserves to go on it are enumerated practically to the power of 10 . |
| 11 | Now we learn that tampons are not classed as medical appliances and therefore not subject to the same stringent government legislation on manufacture and sterility which applies to say condoms which when you come to think about it are destined for the same anatomical region . |
| 12 | Whatever else , McIllvanney ran a good boatyard and hated to think of it being vandalised . |
| 13 | The only way to get over it was to look after them . |
| 14 | No , the way to get at it is to work from whatever background has fired your imagination . |
| 15 | At Burley Camp in Devon a crock of gold is said to be buried , but anyone who tries to dig for it is said to be scared away by thunder and lightning . |