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

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1 It may be that it was their actions that tipped the balance for Rank , and decided him against pushing on with his ambitions .
2 Now she made the decisions , now she was in control , and if , at some future date , she should sell the farmhouse it would be because it was her choice and not to accommodate him .
3 Well that should n't be when it 's his cheque should it .
4 But erm , the , so although he , he , the point I 'm making is although it was who says he mentioned symbolism , or became aware of it , it 's er , it does n't conflict with the point th that , that we were making earlier , that the only person who can interpret their dreams is the dreamer ultimately .
5 You can be as active or as lazy as you wish ; the important thing is that it is something you want to do rather than something you feel you should do ;
6 The reason for that is that it is we are operating in a in an environment of planning policy restraint .
7 What is certain is that , although a lot of ‘ experts ’ are ready to tell you what to do — and you may be the kind of gardener who merely wants a set of step-by-step instructions — the point entirely missing is that it is you , and only you , who has to use your judgement and make the decisions .
8 ‘ The great thing about painting ’ , he says , ‘ is that it is your own individual interpretation of whatever view you have chosen .
9 The truth is that it is my prison . ’
10 The difference this time is that it is someone they personally loved and therefore it takes on an importance quite different from any event they may have witnessed before .
11 What is often forgotten is that it is us who have to pay to have it cleared up .
12 Yeah but the Open University ones cover all of the material and they 're what I actually wrote the lectures from erm but there 's six of them which is why the o the only advantage of the other one is that it 's one not six and so but I mean the material is all covered text of which there are three copies of most of them in the library one on short loan and one on sort of a general loan so you
13 And the maddening part of it is that it 's my own fault .
14 But there is a way , you can manage you can do it and the important thing is that it 's your body that 's doing it , that your body that 's keeping the exercise going , so that when the actual pain disappears , when you 've got rid of the acid , your joints still work and your muscles are still good .
15 the problem with Jesus ' disciples and the point here is that it 's our problem as well , is not that we lack a big faith .
16 of event but erm I do n't think that that makes it er negative , I think that the idea is that it 's it 's cumulative and er that 's that 's the way , well as you say , .
17 M my view about this is that it 's it it is it is that this exercise is that it is er something which has been done very quickly and to my mind is not capable of providing the level of assessment that would be required .
18 Er so I suspect it 's not worked out quite as we intended er and it I mean the main problem is that it 's it 's it 's cost us time , cost me time which I would rather have spent on something else but there we are .
19 The only way you can make sense of it is that it 's it 's design to get a competitor out of the market .
20 All I know is that it was our biggest stroke of luck this season . ’
21 What he characteristically does not say is that it was he who kept the Pythons together .
22 So there 's there 's lots of reasons to illustrate the point then and another thing of course it does is if it 's one you use on here it helps you remember you do n't have to have that written down because it 's there already produced if it 's a pre-prepared acetate as we call as we call it .
23 ‘ Nowadays the only time anyone orders champagne is if it is their birthday , ’ mourned Mr Mongiat .
24 Erm , it 's and it 's you Jack now I think ?
25 Again in any traffic model there are pluses and minuses , the simplistic assumption is and it 's it 's a common techniques used in in in in traffic models er for for schemes of this type er that you do use all or nothing .
26 That that 's not much but if it 's if it 's I mean if it 's not padded out with waffle and drivel cos you I mean if it 's a good ti concise answer that 'll probably get a good mark .
27 It 's like it was someone else .
28 I do n't know what century it is but it 's it 's a crazy attitude !
29 Well it 's but it 's it 's the modern shopping experience
30 ‘ The reason I do what I do is because it 's something I ca n't help .
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