Example sentences of "be what it be [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They 've had additional training in in erm filling in correctly the the the form and will pick up erm for example on the erm the principal accountabilities — every accountability should have three parts , it should be an action verb to help , or to do , or to ensure , or whatever and it should be what it is you 're doing and thirdly it ought to have some sort of erm target in in in doing it .
2 To the perspectival appearance at that point of view being what it is it makes no difference whether or not the point of view is occupied by a viewer .
3 I 'm not right sure I , I 've been what it was you know ?
4 You know , you , it 's , that 's what it is it 's getting the flow
5 sleeping in the car today , that 's what it is he 's just woken up .
6 Oh sorry so that 's that 's what it 's what it 's about so what we want to do then over these next two days is to develop the skills of design and delivery and will allow us to do that allow us to improve our performance despite the fact that we do have the nerves and by practice by doing it by putting yourself in the situation where you have to make a presentation and almost as one chap said one time sitting there actually with your sitting there remembering he said actually volunteer to make presentations to the other people there .
7 I think that 's what it was I left it too long .
8 But I know that 's what it was you know because the wee lassie done it with this special electronic thing
9 At the time of the cash call the group promised shareholders unchanged dividends totalling 6p for the year , and that is what it is they are getting , the final of 3¾p payable on July 1 .
10 As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself .
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