Example sentences of "be [verb] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 While schools are attempting to get away from the system , we are formalising it by offering five different levels of funding .
2 You , you , you may come across er legislature like this but you , you would n't be sure , when you they 're justifying it by saying that this is natural , this is a progression in er a historical progression and that in fact that it 's a erm it 's only because the , the landlords were , were sort of evil and nasty to us that , that i it , that they , this is happening .
3 You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me .
4 James responded by supporting the role of the merchandisers , of whom he said , ‘ I do not think they are changing the LA image — I can only think they are enhancing it by ensuring the best level of stock service to the shops . ’
5 Yeah or I mean which accents do you think people sound more intelligent when they 've got I mean , it 's not that 's heavily match- guised cos in match guised people are doing it without knowing what they 're doing .
6 This is the easiest knot to learn and you 've probably been tying it without knowing its name .
7 Fibre-optic broadcaster WilTel Corp will be using it for transmitting television programmes as will Vyvx Inc , which also provides videoconferencing , production and editing facilities to over 65 US cities .
8 A concern to prevent viewers switching off is normal but , on this particular occasion , broadcasters — particularly those at the BBC — appear to be overdoing it by promising a mixture of melodrama and cabaret ( ‘ a great national party ’ is another of Dimbleby 's images ) .
9 Aggressive , aggression might be tied it with getting your own but being assertive is not about getting your own way .
10 Thus the government rejected the argument that the best way to improve the long-run viability of the industry would be to restructure it by merging the two leading manufacturers .
11 She thought , looking at the pleasant room : I 'm taking it for granted already !
12 Unschooled children , if the evidence does demonstrate that they are being less explicit , may in fact be taking it for granted that the questioner can see what is being referred to so that there is no apparent need to be explicit .
13 You seemed to be taking it for granted , ’ she pointed out .
14 I am taking it for granted that if you used the term , even in minutes and reports , you must have meant something by it .
15 ‘ You are taking it for granted that when I say ‘ what they like ’ I mean sexual experience .
16 That will be a highly competitive environment and we are entering it by jettisoning investment , research , design , development and all the other attributes that would allow us to compete in that market .
17 ‘ It 's a great tournament but they are ruining it by making it too tough .
18 She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought .
19 You are likely to be looking for the relation between the variable part of the text ( called the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE because you are manipulating it by making changes ) and the variation in the response of the reader ( called the DEPENDENT VARIABLE , because it depends on the variation , or changes , made to the text ) .
20 ‘ It 's his birthday , Monsieur Armand , but I 'm afraid we were spoiling it by having a political discussion . ’
21 When , when a we were discussing it with said to me oh you do n't believe in , he meant ah and I .
22 Although it was once thought only Confucian scholars could outwit a kuei , a deterrent popular amongst all Chinese is to set it to solving a riddle .
23 And , what 's more , he 's done it without sacrificing the lightness and strength of the guitar , nor any of its internal volume .
24 No because what 's stopping it from going on to any erm what 's stopping it from becoming capitalist and
25 No because what 's stopping it from going on to any erm what 's stopping it from becoming capitalist and
26 In the face of a history which obscures such discontinuities , the first stage for Foucault , therefore , is to defamiliarize it by reconstituting it without the mythology of a continuous History which has turned difference into identity .
27 Check that the bridge fits snugly back into place and that nothing is preventing it from seating properly ; small gaps at either end of the bridge are common , but the glue will fill these .
28 I was keeping it for cleaning the car .
29 For Germany now had the chance to bring her new strength of purpose to bear against her real enemy — at which point Nietzsche introduced a reinterpretation of politics in cultural and philosophical terms which was to become characteristic of his mature thinking : the " real enemy " was modern superficiality , and Germany 's chance was to destroy it by relearning " tragic cognition " from the Greeks .
30 She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that .
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