Example sentences of "be what it be [pers pn] " 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 | I think that 's what it was I left it too long . |
| 7 | But I know that 's what it was you know because the wee lassie done it with this special electronic thing |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |