Example sentences of "and [adv] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew from my family history I was likely to be vulnerable to cancer and luckily it was diagnosed and treated in time . |
| 2 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 3 | When Nicholas was told to leave the television off , he kept putting it on , and eventually it was left on — to give his parents a bit of peace . |
| 4 | The castle was in such a state of disrepair that they decided not to spend money on it , and eventually it was demolished . |
| 5 | The mini-skirt spread through the western world from many centres ; it appeared in Oxford Street , London , long before it reached Oxford Street , Swansea , and presumably it was seen in Chicago , Illinois , an appreciable time before it dazzled the male eyes of the " city " of Muddy in the south of the same state . |
| 6 | It just sank slowly and steadily below the ocean 's horizon , and suddenly it was gone . |
| 7 | GOLD HAS always been the ultimate store of value — and so it is proving here today . |
| 8 | The lure of Tinseltown and the magic dollar was always going to prove irresistible to someone as unashamedly ambitious as Kylie , and so it is proving . |
| 9 | And so it is planned to continue , year by year , until the entire national curriculum is in place by the end of 1997 . |
| 10 | IR radiation with wavelengths between 5 and 15 m is sensed as heat and so it is called the thermal infrared region . |
| 11 | The worry is that the jury can not be made to abide by directions of this kind , and so it is alleged that , if no evidential weight attaches to the refusal to answer , it would be better to exclude it altogether than to run the risk . |
| 12 | The blood of childbirth and menstruation , which follows a passive and unstoppable cycle , can be construed ( by the powers that be ) to fall within this category , and so it is required that cultural regulation step in with restrictive legislation . |
| 13 | Many of these plateaus have anomalous crustal thicknesses of between 20 and 40 km and an upper layer 10 to 15 km thick with P-wave velocities in the range 6.0–6.3 km s-h These values are in the range of granitic rocks in the continental crust and so it is inferred that many oceanic plateaus ( such as the Seychelles Bank ) are drowned continental fragments originating from the edges of ancient land masses and destined to be swept towards a subduction zone in the future . |
| 14 | That rudder movement equals braking and so it 's slowing you down , it may look impressive being heeled over like this but I 'd sail a lot faster if the boat were flat . |
| 15 | Now , I have n't totally had a chance to talk to Mr er , about that , but I would assume that means you er , and so it 's moving in the other direction if anything Mrs . |
| 16 | Because I 'm on T.V. I have to keep it looking the same and so it 's trimmed every five to six weeks . |
| 17 | Technology is changing our world so much that small groups of people through computers and elsewhere are able to determine vast patterns of human behaviour and so it 's gon na be a long struggle but through our struggle in Africa and your struggle here where we all want democracy but democracy 's only a process what we have to contend with is also power because ultimately it 's only when you 're able to exercise that power that you can deliver for the majority of the people . |
| 18 | And so it 's keeping up the the good work that 's of of lobbying MPs to such a degree that they they 've got to back it which is what 's brought it to its second reading as one of the most popular er private member 's bills in history . |
| 19 | The trouble is that some of it 's still attached and so it 's going start erm bu butting again , growing . |
| 20 | Also , I should say that erm the District Health Authorities now also have the right to initiate this , and of course they are more likely to be in contact with children who are under erm school age , and so it 's going to imply that the different services within the Local Authorities are going to have to work quite closely together on this one and what you should have , by the time a statement is prepared , is a very detailed profile of a particular child and one in which the parent has been consulted and various other people have been consulted . |
| 21 | And so it was arranged . |
| 22 | Both 5029 and 6024 needed water at Quainton during the day , further time was lost and so it was decided to cancel one round trip . |
| 23 | However , because they had been unemployed , they had not earned enough money in the previous three years to qualify for the mature student allowance , and so it was denied to them . |
| 24 | I tried to pull the post out but I could n't , it was about six feet long and so it was dragging on the ground . |
| 25 | And so it was born Information Systems Unit or ISU . |
| 26 | Soon it must have become obvious to the story-tellers that such a huge land could no longer be fitted into the Mediterranean , and so it was resited beyond the Gates of Hercules . |
| 27 | In other words , the subjective elements were read referentially and so it was implied that the logic of narrative derived from a reality outside itself . |
| 28 | At full charge , the 216 cells provided the B.E.M.U. with a range of about 100 miles and so it was restricted to one round trip per day over the branch line . |
| 29 | And so it was envisaged that the former coaling and oiling stations of Gibraltar , Malta , Port Said , Suez , Aden , Bombay , Colombo , Penang , Singapore and Hong Kong would become air staging posts as well in the post-imperial era . |
| 30 | And so it was to prove in the late '60s and early ‘ 70s . |