Example sentences of "be [conj] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the signs are that it made virtually no impact at all . |
| 2 | His major criticism of Murder in the Cathedral had been that it contained too much obvious " poetry " , and in the new play he wanted to create a more flexible and less ostensible verse line which could handle demotic or rarefied material equally well . |
| 3 | It may be that it suited occasionally that the same parish priest looked after both of them . |
| 4 | The reason for this might be that it feels more possible to grieve the death of someone or something that is perhaps significant , but not so important as the death of the spouse . |
| 5 | Indeed , it may be that it goes further , and effectively means that the seller has not undertaken to deliver the goods at all , so that it may be argued that the seller has undertaken no obligation and , prior to delivery , there is only a unilateral contract under which the buyer is committed to pay if the seller delivers . |
| 6 | It may be that it exists essentially for the purpose of meshing sentence-construction with pragmatic principles ; for example , for " foregrounding " and " backgrounding " informational content ( or , in the terms preferred in this book , for eliciting certain pragmatic implications ) . |
| 7 | I i , it could be because it feels quite cold and damp . |
| 8 | But as the organisation has seen to be when it meets generally speaking , the council and the executive are one and the same dealing with exactly the same business , I 've considered it a meeting of the organisation , and the organisation now basically is going to be the seven sub-committee plus an Annual General Meeting of it 's full council . |
| 9 | Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity . |
| 10 | And these are things like thalidomide , that of course everybody knows about , and of course , tragic and terrible as it was , the fact is that it affected just four hundred and fifty children . |
| 11 | The advantage the pure watercolour has over all other media is that it depends greatly on the light passing through the colour being reflected back from the white paper . |
| 12 | The mark of a good organisation is that it responds positively when things get tough . |
| 13 | One drawback is that it responds only to quick changes in humidity , but the inventors point out this should not be a problem with a fuel gauge . |
| 14 | The advantage of this structure is that it responds swiftly to meet most developments whether from competition , government or consumer bodies . |
| 15 | One of the strengths of this approach is that it becomes much more immediately apparent why certain issues are felt to be important . |
| 16 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 17 | The great advantage of this approach is that it gets away from picking out odd texts from the bible to ‘ prove ’ one thing or another and asks after the underlying message . |
| 18 | The interest of this triple acclamation is that it sounds emphatically and oddly hellenistic ( cp . |
| 19 | The main criticism about information provided to employees is that it arrives too late . |
| 20 | The advantage of the pen system in Eo 's machine is that it does away with the keyboard , so enabling applications to be written for all language forms — non-Roman script like Japanese or Arabic for instance . |
| 21 | The appeal of Brand A is that it does all the work for the slimmer . |
| 22 | But the trouble with the picture is that it does absolutely nothing with its various prognostications except play the fool with them . |
| 23 | A major problem for LTOM is that it derives only 30 per cent of its turnover from retail investors unlike the average of 70 per cent achieved at other pure options exchanges such as the CBOE and the EOE . |
| 24 | When we five and a half years of life of the coral from Isabella Island in the Galapagos the remarkable thing about this coral record is that it represents nearly three hundred and eighty years of continuous coral growth . |
| 25 | But for some villagers who the remember the Lambourn as it used to be , all that matters is that it flows once again . |
| 26 | Another strange quality of warning coloration is that it varies remarkably little from one species to the next . |
| 27 | What happens is that it falls apart , its rib-cage falling away and the limbs dropping from their sockets . |
| 28 | The reason for MI5 's inefficiency is that it wastes far too much time and resources chasing after the wrong sort of people who it believes to be subversive , while real enemies of the state are able to go on spying undetected for decades . |
| 29 | An advantage of this use of directories is that it caters naturally for cases where a student 's work involves several different files . |
| 30 | The major difficulty , however , with this view is that it stems again from a misreading of realism . |