Example sentences of "be [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counterfeiting is a multi million pound industry and all the signs are that it 's growing at an alarming rate . |
| 2 | And are you confident when you give a weather forecast that the chances are that it 's going to be correct , or do you do it with a slight feeling of uneasiness ? |
| 3 | ‘ All signs are that it is making a real impact in reducing the spread of Aids , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 4 | ‘ Industrial drug research is facing a crisis ’ was the headline of a British Medical Journal editorial recently ; and all the indications in Cured to Death are that it is going to get worse . |
| 5 | In April , I did point out that if English Heritage ( the body responsible for the preservation of England 's built heritage ) were transferred to the new Department of National Heritage ( which is now the case ) , very careful consideration would need to be given to how planning is coped with , because one of the strengths of English Heritage had been that it was placed within the Department of the Environment where government planning takes place . |
| 6 | The two are entirely compatible if it is remembered that one of the popular theories of the nature of the state itself has always been that it was founded on a contract between the individual members of a society . |
| 7 | But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ? |
| 8 | There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students . |
| 9 | If your original application was rejected by some or all of the institutions you listed , this might have been because it was delayed and did not reach the admissions tutor until after the course was full . |
| 10 | She had not realised how heavy the " burden had been till it was lifted . |
| 11 | The main criterion for an effective service must be that it is staffed by experienced professionals who are appropriately qualified . |
| 12 | It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ . |
| 13 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 14 | It may even be that it was done to make possible the appointment of this particular scholar , a native of Bosnasarayi who had taught to the level . |
| 15 | One reason for this may be that it was overtaken — and , perhaps , undermined — by political developments . |
| 16 | Asik Celebi says no more about Molla Fenari 's fate , but it may well be that it was alter this experience that Molla Fenari went to Karaman . |
| 17 | The unprimed will not necessarily be diagonal as it should be if it is to satisfy the first part of eqn ( 6.16 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Or it would be if it was rendered habitable once more . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Only he did n't leave his wife , so Marie O'Donnell returned to Ireland , and because she knew how it would be if it was known she had an illegitimate child she told everyone she was a widow . |
| 20 | In a real sense , our mind or at least , our mind as it truly is , our mind as it would be if it were purged of all individuality , partiality , incompleteness , confusion , emotion and what not , is identical with the total absolute which the business of philosophy is to study . |
| 21 | It was not known yesterday what the exact number of redundancies would be but it is hoped that they can be achieved voluntarily . |
| 22 | … in-service training is often much less effective than it could be because it is based on an ‘ educational model ’ i.e. is focussed largely on the individual . |
| 23 | This may be because it was intended to be a quick method of banning undesirable consumer trade practices and in practice it turned out not to be very quick at all . |
| 24 | We are also very strongly influenced by our expectations ; if we have heard and understood half a sentence , it seems that our brain is already guessing at what the rest of it will be before it is heard , and is certainly not acting in a passive way like a simple machine . |
| 25 | Purely from a financial perspective , have you any idea how much more valuable the cottage will be when it 's known to be one of Piers 's creations ? ’ |
| 26 | Alongside concern about the potential for disastrous accidents there was also a debate about how safe Hinkley C would be when it was operating under ‘ normal ’ conditions . |
| 27 | The disadvantages of the Article were that it was perceived as dealing with ‘ representational ’ issues that were out of place in the Convention , that it undercut the position of non-liability of member States for treaties concluded by organisations , and that it placed excessive emphasis on the exceptional situation of the European Communities . |
| 28 | Suggestions were that it was to rendezvous with another English force crossing into the Middle March ; or to meet up with Dunbar on the East March and convince him to join Balliol actively . |
| 29 | Their vision of ‘ the planet being as it were wrapped in telepathic or electronic thought of more and more brains working away ’ seems to her ‘ dangerously like the pollution that may stifle it ’ and ‘ essentially an elitist dream ’ ( 1981:388 ) . |
| 30 | On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily . |