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

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1 It could not be what it is without that upon which it depends .
2 This must be what it 's like to play a variety club on a Saturday night .
3 ‘ Must be what it 's like to be an Olympic jumper , ’ she thought .
4 The statement that a rule exists may now no longer be what it was in the simple case of customary rules — an external statement of the fact that a certain mode of behaviour was generally accepted as a standard in practice .
5 The worst day we were out here working on the garden and it made me think this must be what it was like in the trenches
6 It 's floating poke it down and see if it 'll reach , it 'll go to the bottom , that 's it it 's on the bottom , oh no it jumped up , it 's a definite floater that one .
7 Oh it 's it it 's on a it 's on erm it 's on a plate so you er I do n't mind I 'm , you know I do n't mind not getting it back for the next month .
8 Or is it it is in fact North Radstock is n't it ?
9 And that er , that 's what it is on the thing , jacket potato on there ?
10 I 've smoked for over fifteen years , and it has become , it 's something to do with my hands and I think that 's what it is with me .
11 No , she said she gets arthritis in hers and I expect that 's what it is with mine .
12 mm , well that 's what it is in it ? , that 's what it is
13 That 's what it 's for the country .
14 Quite clearly the reason that people have been asked to come along this evening and have come along this evening is to put there points of view about how the see the theatre in the future what is programme facilities are the things that are n't happening here they feel should be happening here that 's what it 's for not here to serve any purpose for individuals to get up and make personal cuts on people or say what happen on a Saturday morning or a Thursday afternoon cos I
15 dress a dog up for your own amusement if that 's what it 's for .
16 Now in fact that 's not what we like our stewards to do , what we like our stewards to do is actually to help people to enjoy themselves , to help people to erm to enjoy the house and to sit on things and and and actually say , no please sit down on that if you like to , it 's perfectly alright , that 's what it 's for .
17 That 's what it 's for — speed , freedom and flexibility — and a hell of a lot of fun ! ’
18 I mean , that 's what it 's for .
19 Cos it 's , the you 're supposed to that 's what it 's for so you can check all your spellings .
20 Well some folk music you can ca n't you , that 's what it 's for .
21 Yes , yes , that that 's what it 's for , is n't it .
22 I said that 's what it 's for , yeah , yeah .
23 Yeah that 's what it 's for the dog 's bean bag
24 second lazy shit no leave it on , the that 's what it 's for , for Christ sake , they 're giving you twenty five quid just telling what you saying , might be private , be happy there
25 That 's what it 's for .
26 That 's what it 's about now , in n it ?
27 Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn
28 that 's what it 's about is n't it , really ?
29 So here we are , that 's what it 's like , and that 's the deepest we can go and the clearest we can get .
30 Get them into the theatre without a lot of sighted people to push through that 's what it 's like , yes
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